Osama Ben Laden: Article Analysis

The key drivers of uncertainty for ISIS in these scenarios include its ability to management its level fundamentalism and stability within its environment. Muslim conduct Islamic fundamentalism when they live and project on to others the original interpretation of Muhammed teachings. The most radical fundamentalism is Wahhabi or Salafist, supporting the conservative and extreme interpretation of the Quran and Sharia Law. ISIS uses its radical fundamentalist interpretation of Quran and Sharia Law to conduct its killing, caliphate and management its people. Due to its major combat losses, ISIS may want a less aggressive approach of fundamentalism to be more appealing to large portions of the Muslim community. The moderate fundamentalism approach used the both the uses the Quran and Sharia Law as well but used political governance or over more aggressive violence to achieve its strategic objectives. To regain personnel and strengthen its forces, ISIS may want to consider globalism over nationalism to improve stability. Although Globalism promotes international investment along with the spread of ideas and culture to other nations, ISIS may want to engage with Nationalism approach to strength it based in Iraq or Syria. All four scenarios review the importance of both fundamentalism and stability as major driving factors projecting the future of an uncertain

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885). Downplaying the aggression, the country described the assailants as inspired by global jihadi rhetoric but were not connected to any global jihadi organization (Winter, 2011, p. 885).

ISIS claims to be a legitimate caliphate, which is basically a divinely-sanctioned political body, whose rules, laws, and political ambitions are modeled according to the first ruling order established by Muhammad. According to Islam, that is the only correct and acceptable form of government, and because of this, ISIS technically has a military and political authority of all Muslims worldwide. The Ottoman Empire also had a caliphate to create power and organization over their empire when it still

The prison gained international notoriety after Amnesty International published reports of abuses such as rape, murder and sodomy. According to an article written by, The Newyorker called, Chain of command, Soldiers such as, Charles Graner and Lynndie England, were sentenced to years in prison. They were charged for a series of human rights violations such as, aggravated assault and battery, and malnutrition. It is said that they committed more violations, but it can’t be proven. In the Abu Ghraib prison, detainees were constantly beaten and humiliated, they were stripped naked and put on leashes forced to crawl around like a dog for hours at a

Thus, he emphasizes how terrorist organization in turn assess their targets. Targeting democracies at a certain time in policy debate lead Pape to conclude that the coercive nature of the suicide terrorist attacks is what make them successful in achieving their goals. The author uses two key examples to explain his findings. He emphasis the success of coercion with policy decisions. Israel’s withdraw from Gaza, “Israeli concessions increased their confidence in coercive effectiveness of suicide attack” The Crucial Case of Hamas “examinations of the crucial cases demonstrates that terrorist groups came to the conclusion that suicide attack accelerated Israeli’s withdraw in both cases” (). Pape concludes that viewing the increasing success of terrorist attacks to coerce governments it actuality it is not successful as often as terrorist wants.

We take a look at the terrorism attacks carried out by the group under the leadership of Osama and need not forget his death and how it was carried out and the effect it has on the terrorism group and its activities.

Another element of the strategy is untwisting the “spiral of violence”. The classic mechanism, which assume the existence of cycles of suicide terrorism activity in a “action-repression-reaction” it is aimed at lowering the public support for the government, and increase it for the terrorists. By curried out the suicide terrorism attacks, the intension and aim of the terrorists is to hit the repressive actions of the authorities not only in themselves but also in the group indentified with them and/or their supporters (a specified ethnic group, religious, social or the entire society). As a result, this process has lead to massive social explosion directed against the government. Such a model of strategy for terrorism has been used by most of the leftist groups in Europe in the nineteenth century, and in the

Since the death of Osama Bin Laden, there has been a radical change in the operational structure of the organisation. Previously, the group had a formal top-down command structure such that orders were issued at the top and passed down to the lower levels for implementation (Atwan, 2012). Currently, however, the operations of the organisation seem to be more devolved, often including or taking the form of actions by franchise associated groups or even lone-wolf operators. It is to be acknowledged that the operations of AQ have historically involved groups and individuals not necessarily affiliated to AQ but simply consisting of people or groups with sworn allegiance to Bin Laden or those trained in any of the AQ training camps in Afghanistan

“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjugated races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or native police.”

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Al-Qaeda, created by Osama Bin Laden in the purpose of destroying the nations which are

This group was created in 1978 and continues to expand its power today. It began as a branch of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. This terrorist group has several goals ranging from creating a Islamic state to continuing the armed struggle against Israeli occupation of Palestine territories. Their acts of

A self-proclaimed Islamic state that claims caliphate (a form of Islamic government) , and ‘controls’ over ten million people in Iraq and Syria and other parts of Middle East, or an organisation labelled as an extremist militant group being held responsible for ethnic killings and human rights abuses. It is indeed, nowadays, a debatable topic. But what’s really arguable is ‘How is ISIS defining Islam?’, ‘How legitimate their claims are?’ and moreover, “How Islamic is the ISIS actually?’.

This book seeks to define ISIS, who they are and what their purpose is. From their point of view, this terrorist organization seems to be engaging in a religious war against their enemies. However the UK and US do not see the war as a religious one, but mainly one that rids the world of the new age terrorists.