Osama Bin Laden And The Mujahedeen

September 11, 2001 evil struck the United States of America in the form of ruthless terrorism. Terrorism that was sent from a terrorist group called Al-Qaeda, and leader of Al-Qaeda Osama Bin Laden. On the morning of September 11, 2001 19 hijackers hijacked 4 fully flued commercial jet liners and deliberately crashed them in buildings around the east coast. Two planes crashed into both the south and north towers of the world center. Soon after, both towers collapsed to the ground killing over 2,000 people and injuring thousands more. In Washington D.C. a plane crashed into the pentagon killing 184 and injured dozens more. Sending fear throughout Washington D.C. of wondering where the next plane might hit dozens of buildings were evacuated

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.

February 26, 1993. The World Trade Center bombing left six people dead, with extensive structure damage. The original plot was to drop one building into the next building and cause massive damage to both. A second plot was discovered to bomb; the U.N. building, Holland and Lincoln tunnels and the Federal Plaza. This is how a modern world attack would occur. Several attacks by independent cells, one taking over where the other failed until the mission is complete.

Osama is the main suspect that U.S. officials say could be behind the hijacking attacks and other numerous international terrorist assaults. These attacks were the result of a “holy war”, declared against the United States by Osama Bin Laden. Laden's anger with the United States in 1990 from the decision by Saudi Arabia to allow the U.S. to stage attacks on Iraqi forces in Kuwait and Iraq. After the U.S. victory, the U.S. military presence became permanent. In a CNN interview with bin Laden in 1997, he said the ongoing U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia is an "occupation of the land of the holy places.” (Anti-Defamation League, “Osama Bin Laden: Profile”). He left Saudi Arabia in 1991 after a feud with the Saudi monarchy, taking assets that had grown to an estimated $250 million with him. In 1996, bin Laden issued a "fatwah," which is a religious ruling urging Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and Somalia. Another fatwah in 1998 called for attacks on American civilians. These terrorists are not born as killers, but are made through Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist training

One of the most known and worst events occurred on September 11, 2001. Terror attacks occurred in the United States of America in the cities of Washington D.C. and New York City. An Al-Qaeda terrorist group organized this attack by sending terrorists on four different airplanes to crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, while another one was targeted for the Pentagon. Although one plane hit the Pentagon, the other went off course and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The plane that crashed into a field in Pennsylvania was supposed to either hit the White House or the Capital building. Over 3,000 people died and this day in

On September 11th 2001 at 8:46am tragedy struck in lower Manhattan as 2 hijacked Boeing 757 aeroplanes crashed into the world trade centres north and south towers in an act of terrorism carried out by Al-Qaeda.

In response to growing Western influence in the Middle East, Osama bin Laden formed al-Qaeda, a global militant Sunni Islamist Organization, in 1988. The terrorist activities of this group resulted in the creation of America's Operation Neptune Spear which successfully led to his capture and death in 2011. Osama bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 to Mohammed bin Laden and Hamida Ghanem. His father was a Saudi millionaire, however, his mother was only a slave to the bin Laden family when Osama was born. In 1962, Saudi Arabia banned all forms of slavery, enabling Osama to become more part of the bin Laden family. In addition, as more U.S. troops began to occupy countries in the Middle East, extremists like bin Laden were infuriated and declared a jihad, or holy war, on the United States. After al-Qaeda was formed and initiated a number of terror attacks against Americans, including the 9/11 acts, the United States launched an operation to eliminate their number one enemy (PBS, 1).

September 11, 2001 the U.S. was attacked by four crashing planes caused by terrorist. Two of the planes crashed into The World Trade Center at New York City and killed everyone on the plane, 3,000 deaths when the tower collapsed. One to the Pentagon a administrative building at Washington D.C. The last plane crashed into a field at Pennsylvania while passengers and crew members tried to take back control. After that George W. Bush responded to 9/11 and declared “War On Terror”. But I thought the U.S. response to 9/11 was not really appropriate by the way.

Osama Bin Laden was known as one of the most wanted fugitives by the FBI for being related to the series of bombings and the 9/11 attack. The reason why he lashed out on the US was, in August 7, 1990, the US sent troops to Saudi Arabia which angered Bin Laden because he knew this would interfere with his plans of waging global jihad. When the US troop arrived to Somalia in 1992 to help the famine who were dying of starvation, Bin laden became even more furious because the US weren’t authorized to help and then decided to attack the US forces. The next year, Bin Laden had sent some of his troops to go hijack some of the US planes and ram them into the twin towers and killed many. This event was known as 9/11. There were many people in the US who were frightened

In 1988 bin Laden founded one of the world’s most infamous terrorist groups, al-Qaeda (the Base). Al-Qaeda's purpose was to encourage muslims to join jihad and perform acts of terrorism and violence, especially towards western countries. The following year bin Laden returned to his home in Saudi Arabia to collect donations for his new group and to help with his father's construction company. The Saudi Arabian government had been notified of bin Laden’s plan to collect donations, so the confiscated his passport, forcing him to stay in Saudi

When most people think of the world trade center they immediately think of the attack that occurred September 11th 2001. Most forget that was not the first time that the world trade center’s had come under attack before. “The February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City marked the beginning of an ugly new phase of terrorism involving the indiscriminate killing of civilians. ’ Like the saran gas attack on the Tokyo subway in March 1995 and the bombing of the Alfred E. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 4995, the World Trade Center bombing was

Al Qaeda started out with three members and grew over the years, becoming one of the most widely known terrorist organizations in the world. Al Qaeda was founded in 1988 by Abdullah Azzam, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden, who later became the most wanted terrorist in America. Abdullah had a position as a lecturer at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, where he most likely met Bi Laden who was enrolled there as a student. As bin Laden’s teacher and mentor Azzam influenced and helped Bin Laden start the Al Qaeda organization in 1988. Ayman al-Zawahiri later joined to two and is currently the leader of Al Qaeda. . The organization started out in Pakistan and Afghanistan and later spread across five different continents. Over the years

Al-Qaeda had been responsible for attacking the World Trade Center in 1993 and 2001, as well as bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people from 1991 to 1998. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, U.S. and British forces drove Al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan in to neighboring Pakistan. The unrest in the region due to being forced out of Afghanistan had never been greater than during the July 7th attacks in London. Al-Qaeda was known to have an issue with the United States occupying the region especially the oil magnate Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War. Also, the group issued a declaration of Jihad in August of 1996 against the Americans and anyone “occupying the land of the two holy mosques; expel the heretics from the Arabian Peninsula" was disseminated”. (PBS, 2014) During the 1990’s Al-Qaeda spread its cells all over the world including the United Kingdom.

The attack “shocked the Muslim world, galvanizing roughly 20,000 foreign fighters to help Afghans resist Soviet forces” (Beauchamp 1). Many of these fighters saw the invasion of Afghanistan as a religious struggle and, as a result, a lot of them formed extremist views. Among these fighters is a nineteen year old Saudi by the name of Osama Bin-Laden and a Jordanian street thug who called himself Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Although they never got along, Bin-Laden would go on to create al-Qaeda while Zarqawi would go on to create what we now know as ISIS. After years of fighting, “the Soviets withdrew in 1988, but they left a puppet regime in place, and the war continued” (Beauchamp 1). The war finally ends in 1989 and most of the Arab fighters go back home with Bin-Laden going back to Saudi Arabia and Zarqawi going back to Jordan. During this time, Zarqawi tries to start his own group, but it ultimately fails. However, in Saudi Arabia, Bin-Laden forms al-Qaeda with some of the other young radicals from the Invasion of

The European colonialism, and the British, greatly helped the rise of Islam. The European colonialism gave them the strength to rise against their oppressors. The Wahhabi movement was started as a result of the European colonialism. The British helped groups of Islam by giving them weapons as well as the financial support that they needed as well as aiding them in setting up a central form of government. Muhammad Iqbal called for a bold reinterpretation of Islam that would take the best of Western ideas, but recast them according to Islamic principles and values. He wanted to reconstruct the religious thought in Islam so that it would be more significant in the modern world. On the other hand, Osama bin Laden pushed his ideas on the people of Islam and used great force. He created a group called Al Qaeda, whose purpose was to drive the U.S. out of Arabia, overthrow the Saudi government, liberate Islam’s holy sites, and support revolutionary groups around the world. Osama bin Laden was among the founders who issued a fatwa that states that it is the duty of all Muslims to kill U.S. citizens and their allies.