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    What Is Al-Qaeda?

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    When speaking about al-Qaeda, this paper refers to an organization with numerous affiliates that promotes a global terrorist interpretation of jihad and thus inspires a movement of followers via the Internet. Jihadism is the modern ideology and terrorist interpretation of jihad, and jihadists are persons who hold up its principles and doctrines. An intermediate control level of al-Qaeda and other organizations exists, and it can be illustrated with the steady output of ideas and agendas. However

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    The Terror Of Al Qaeda

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    gave one his most iconic speeches before 80 million Americans where he identified the enemy, al Qaeda, as “a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations” that “practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics” (O’Connell 285). President Bush commanded on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime to turn over all al Qaeda members living in Afghanistan and that they close all of their training camps. This was his speech

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    Al Qaeda Research Paper

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    How Al-Qaeda Still has Power in Afghanistan Al-Qaeda is a Sunni sunni Islamistislamist organization that was founded by Osama bin Laden. They have made an impact on many parts of the world. Impacts that would cause casualties that is. Just three organizations Al-Qaeda is tied to are the Haqqani, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban. Although Al-Qaeda has few agents left in Afghanistan they still managed and manage to cause devastating acts of violence. One of the ways they were and still are able to

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    The terrorist organization I chose is Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda translates into, “The Base, The Foundation or The Fundament". This terrorist organization was established in 1988 and is still going on to the present day. This is one of the most active and dangerous terrorist groups out there today. Al Qaeda is worldwide but they are mainly located in the Middle East. Al Qaeda is worldwide, but they now have control in Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. In the Af-Pak region there are 300-3,000 members in the organization

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    attacks were done by two different groups of terrorists, but what people tend to ignore is that these terrorist groups did not come to life from the unknown. What people tend to ignore or maybe just don’t understand or don’t know is that in this case, Al Qaeda was a creation of the United States of America, a country which was colossally

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    in history, they would come to be known as " Al- Qaeda". Al-Qaeda which in Arabic means " The Base" was founded by Abdullah Azzam and Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. Azzam was a teacher and mentor to Osama when he was in university, Azzam was assassinated

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    Al Qaeda Research Paper

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    Al-Qaeda, which means “The Base” is a terrorist group based on extremist Islamic military. Al-Qaeda is an International Terrorist Organization and goal of this group is to make violence, damaged, and abolish no Islamic governments. The group was made by Osama Bin Laden in the late 1980s to throw the Soviets away from Afghanistan. In this mission, Al-Qaeda got a success and they were able to kick out all the Soviets from Afghanistan. This victory builds up a new confidence in this group and they started

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    September 11th 2001 is a day Americans will remember for the rest of their lives. This was the day Al Qaeda, a radical Islamic group organized by Osama Bin Laden in the 1990’s, terrorized America. Al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and executed suicide attacks on four sites in the United States of America. The first two of the airplanes were flown into the Twin Towers in New York City, another hit the Pentagon in Washington DC and the last plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, but could have

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    rise of Al Qaeda and the resilience of its group, it is important understand that the internet is a significant factor in their campaign against the West. In terms of proselytizing, the Internet is useful in advancing propaganda material to Muslims within their own national boundaries and throughout Western countries such as Europe, London, United States, and Canada. The internet is being used for a wide variety of applications such as radicalization, recruitment, and planning. Online Islamic magazines

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    How To Prevent Al Qaeda

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    Al Qaeda’s branch is located in Yemen and is considered to be the most perilous part of the terrorist group. A letter to Ibrahim al-Asiri, the master bomb-maker with Al Qaeda, stated, "We urge you to strike America in its own home and beyond”. Officials are still uncertain if this letter was really written to Asiri, but it has definitely been taken noticed by other terrorist group trackers. Asiri had also been the one involved in incidents like the 2009 Christmas Day Bomb, when a passenger from Africa

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