Talia al Ghul

Operation Enduring Freedom’s goal was to oust the Taliban regime from Afghanistan and to eliminate Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network. The operation began on October 7, 2001 with a series of airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets. Seven days after the attack on Afghanistan the Taliban offers to give up bin Laden if the U.S. can prove his involvement in the 9/11 attacks but the U.S. rejects their offer. During the subsequent months nations like Britain, Germany…

The oppression of women has been a problem in the Middle Eastern and Central Asian countries for many years, especially since the Taliban rule in 1996 and the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The women of Afghanistan face this oppression on a daily basis. Women in Afghanistan, facing oppression for many different reasons, are often mistreated due to their religion, education and family status. It is because of this oppression that women have not been able to put into action anti-oppression movements…

Islam has become the number one focus of U.S. intelligence, military, and foreign policy in the years since 9/11. Its growth from political Islam to terrorism has been marked by numerous scholars and their contemporaries ranging from Qutb to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. There are many driving forces behind radical Islam, but one of the most important yet confusing is the concept of Jihad, which is used by all groups. Qutb describes the main goal of Islamic jihadism by writing, in his book…

There is no success in the War on Terror until Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri are brought to justice. The U.S. must also deal with captured terrorists in a manner that does not threaten our national security or ongoing counterterrorism operations. Foreign terrorists should not be tried in civilian courts, but instead…

media and the government will invariably clash on what gets coverage and what should not” (p.506). Also there are news stations who show twenty-four hours a day supporting terroism. According to Simonsen & Spindlove (2013), the Arabic news media named Al Jazeera is “the largest and most controversial Arabic news channel in the Middle East” (p.506). This news media is able to show coverage all of the world, twenty-four hours a day to Arabic speaking people who have satellite…

Barack Obama is the forty-third president of the United States of America. He is the first African-American president. President Obama was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After high-school Obama attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years. Afterwards he transferred to Columbia University in New York City, graduating in 1983 with a political science degree. He worked his way through college with the help of scholarships and student loans, when Obama moved to Chicago he…

Steve Coll, former The Washington Post journalist and financial correspondent, received his first Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism on a series of reports criticizing the Securities and Exchange Commission. Since then he has become one of the most respected and highly awarded journalists in the United States, serving as a voting member for the Pulitzer Prize board. He received his second Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2005 for what many consider his magnum opus, Ghost Wars. In…

the largest impact because it includes military operations. In paragraph one, the author establishes a setting by providing significant terrorist groups, locations and time. When the author mentions the international terrorist organizations “such as Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah”…

George W. Bush’s “9/11 Address to the Nation” was a speech, which was given after the catastrophic event that occurred on September 11, 2001. Two airplanes were hijacked and were crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City on this day, shocking the whole world. He addressed this speech to the people of America on the night of the disastrous event, highlighting how America’s freedom was attacked. Thousands of innocent people died while thousands of people were wounded. After the event,…

Management of al-Qaeda beneath the guiding jihadist footsteps of Osama bin Laden has go on to spurring a fear of mapped all around the globe with its very existence. The Islamic extremist organization recognized as al-Qaeda and its leader pull together great efforts in the execution attacks on the United States of America thwarted by only the demise of their head, and yet it gradually rose in power from similar-minded individuals participating with them over the passage of time. It has…