1988: bin laden founded al qaeda
Al Qaeda developed out of the struggle to expel the Soviet Union from Afghanistan.
Osama bin Laden, son of a wealthy Saudi contractor, joined many young Arab men of his generation in Afghanistan. While he appears to have played a very minor role in the fighting, his wealth enabled him to recruit, train, and supply fighters for the insurgency. It was founded in Afghanistan. America started to support israel against palestine which made al qaeda mad and wanted to fight back against the US which lead to the truck bombing in 1993.
-In 1993 the Egyptian Ramzi Yousef planted a truck bomb in the garage of the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring more than one thousand. They were planning to take down the towers
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embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 220 people.The previous February bin Laden had issued a fatwa (religious edict) proclaiming it a sacred duty for devout Muslims to kill Americans whenever and wherever they could be found. American involvement in the extradition, and alleged torture, of four members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad who had been arrested in Albania for an alleged series of murders in Egypt in the two months prior to the attacks made al qaeda plan their next attack on the USS The Sullivans.
-On January 3, 2000 Al qaeda planned to attack the USS the Sullivans ship, but it failed because they put too much weight on a small ship to bomb the USS Sullivans crew ship so the boat sank.Their failure didn’t stop their motivation, al-Qaeda succeeded in bombing a U.S. Navy warship in October 2000 with the USS Cole Bombing and killed 17 sailors. A day later, a grenade was thrown at the British embassy in Yemen, blowing up one of its electric generators. Al-Qaeda wanted to attack the U.S. more by attacking the world trade centers, they would promote widespread fear throughout the country and severely weaken the United States’ standing in the world community, ultimately supporting their political and religious goals in the Middle East and Muslim World. This is copied, and therefore needs a
Al Qaeda has taken responsibility for numerous attacks and attempts, including an attack that made Osama bin Laden very well known to many people in the United States. That attack occurred on September 11, 2001. Three planes were hijacked and the hijackers flew the planes into the United States territory, destroying the
On September 11, 2001, the worst attack on the United States took place from the extremist group called al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda had 19 members hijack four U.S. airplanes and used them to strike various targets on the East Coast. This attack of terrorism killed nearly 3,000 people. Osama Bin Laden took responsibility for being the mastermind behind this attack. Americans were scared and
The USS Cole Navy destroyer was attacked on October 12, 2000, by a small boat loaded with explosives while it was being refueled at the harbor in Aden, Yemen. This terrorist attack killed 17 of the ship’s crew members and extensively damaged the ship, and injured 39 others. The facts of this terrorist attack to date indicate that it may have been executed by Islamic radicals with credible links to the terrorist group headed by Usama bin Ladin (O’Rourke & Perl. 2001).
It was a clear Tuesday morning; September 11, 2001, nineteen Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations boarded four fully fueled American airliners. These airliners were set to depart to cities in California. Little did the staff for each of the planes or the people boarding them know that plans had changed. Within the space of an hour, al Qaeda
Al Qaeda was founded in 1988 by the most wanted terrorist in America, Osama Bin Laden, to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet Invasion. Al Qaeda works with allied Islamic extremist groups to take over regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and remove Westerners from Muslin countries. The organization first began with three members and now there are approximately 200 to 1,000 current members. Al-Qaeda began to construct and offer training camps and guesthouses to its recruits; while they also attempted to pull in U.S. citizens for financial, communication, and operation reasons for the benefit of Al-Qaeda and its other affiliations. By 1990 Al-Qaeda was providing military and intelligence training in various areas including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Sudan.
On September 11, 2001, members of the terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes. At 8:45 in the morning, an American Airlines plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. The incident killed hundreds of people instantly, and trapped hundreds in the burning building (“9/11 Attacks”). Americans thought it was only a freak accident, but less than twenty minutes later, a United Airlines plane crashed into the south tower. It was no longer an accident, but an attack.
Al Qaeda had been planning to invade the United States for quite a long time. They started strategizing for the attacks in 2000. Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, wanted a strike on America that would impact everyone. He approved a plan that stated Al Qaeda would use hijacked airplanes to attack multiple targets in the United States. Their proposal to have multiple hijackings was in case one failed, they wanted to make sure they still
The bombings on the United States embassies in East Africa were several attacks that happened on August 7, 1998 in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. These attacks occurred simultaneously and involved truck bomb explosions at the American embassies in these countries resulting in the death of hundreds of people and destruction of property. Moreover, these attacks happened on the same date that marked the eighth anniversary of the arrival of the United States forces in Saudi Arabia. The genesis of the attacks were largely associated to the members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad that culminated in the placement of Osama bin Laden among the top ten most wanted fugitives by the United States. These attacks on the American embassies were not only shocking to the world but it also resulted in the understanding of the serious security threat posed by terrorists and terror organizations.
In the Communist invasion of Korea in the summer of 1950, Stalin believed North Korean leader, Kim Il Sung when he said he was “absolutely certain of success.” However, Stalin made it clear the USSR would not be footing the bill for a war in Korea if Sung was wrong, and he was. Once the United States sided with the South Koreans, the war became a fiasco instead of the quick, easy, and cheap spread of Communism Stalin thought he was signing on for, and Korea has never been stable since. Similarly, on September 11, 2001, al Qaeda underestimated American retaliation when they orchestrated and executed terror attacks on U.S. soil. Since Americans started a “war on terror,” al Qaeda’s efforts have become “desperate self-promotion” and most of “their” attacks have been made by affiliated and never again had such a catastrophic impact as 9/11 (p 123).
The attack on USS Cole was a suicide bombing conducted by Al Qaeda member, Ibrahim al-Thawr and Absullah al-Misawa under the supposed supervision of Bin Laden which resulted in the death of at least 6 American sailors and left 40 other individuals injured (BBC, 2000). In response Clinton stated before that any assaults could be launched against Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan that the CIA or FBI had been sure enough that they ‘would be willing to stand up in public and say, we believe that Bin Laden…’ was behind the attacks (The 9/11 Commission Report, pp 191). However Clinton was never met with this definitive answer he was after and no covert action was taken against Al Qaeda in response to USS Cole. The bombing galvanised Al Qaeda’s recruitment
Al Qaeda is the international terrorist group responsible for these two attacks. The mastermind behind the attacks was named Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. He was recruited by Osama Bin Laden who was a Saudi millionaire. Osama was the leader that funded and supported Al Qaeda. For
“Muslims, Bin Laden argues, must reverse a series of humiliations that they’ve endured since the Ottoman Empire, the last Muslim great power, was dismantled after World War I. Al-Qaeda’s 1998 declaration of a jihad, or holy war, against ‘Jews and Crusaders’ urges Muslims to attack ‘the Americans and their allies, civilian and military,’ supposedly as a response to U.S. policies that al-Qaeda feels oppress Muslims: the stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia; the backing of U.N. sanctions against Iraq; support for repressive Arab regimes; support for Israel; alleged complicity in Russian attacks on Muslims in Chechnya; and interventions in Bosnia, Somalia, and other Muslim regions that bin Laden sees as attempts to spread America’s empire. These Western policies, according to al-Qaeda, add up to a ‘clear
America has had 21 terrorist attacks, from 2000 to 2009 consisting mostly of al-Qaeda and suicide bombers (infoplease.com). Osama Ben Laden, leading al-Qaeda’s attacks is fed up with the way America treats the world. Blaming America for global warming and determined to stop them by
Although, it did not take long before America realized that the Al Qaeda group was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks. In addition, the organization was led by Osama bin Laden. Besides, the Al Qaeda group had declared war openly on the States of America (Capone, 2011). As a result, the group was ready to terminate lives of innocents’ lives in America and the entire world. Therefore, America started war against Al Qaeda with the aim of protecting the citizens, friends as well as allies. However, after 10 years of the heroic and tireless effort of American military with the tireless support of the counter-terrorism professionals American had yielded some fruits. In addition, America had strengthened its homeland defense and disrupted attacks by the
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