Rise Of Osama Bin Laden

After Bin Laden, the founder of al-qaeda, threatened the U.S. he and his organization planned the 9-11 attack. They had hijacked 4 planes to crash them into certain places. With the crashes, they had killed about 3,000 people in that terrorist attack. Osama Bin Laden will be remembered every 9-11 for the terrifying attack on 2001.

To begin, Mujahidin was a rebel group during the 1980s that Ronald Reagan had funded. During the war the United States gave financial as well as military assistance to Mujahidin (Davis Moorhead). A reason why the U.S. helped Mujahidin was because of the relationship that they had with Great Britain. The Soviets had supported the Afghanistan government and Britain was also supporting the Mujahidin (Davis Moorhead). The main reason why the U.S. got involved was to support Mujahidin with military support. Mujahidin had then lead to the well know terrorist group

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.

¨Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands¨ These words not spoken by Dr. King, or other human right activist, rather this quote was verbalized by the Emir himself, Osama Bin Laden. Influence is all around, rather it be good or bad. According to Webster, having influence is the ability ¨ to affect or alter by indirect or intangible means.¨ Osama was the mastermind behind many terror attacks on America, but what made Osama Bin Laden so influential among his islamic peers? Osama gained influence by his work as a military officer and use of money, by using fear to silence those who opposed al Qaeda, and by establishing a spiritual leadership, that would last even

Russian military involvement in Afghanistan has a long history, going back to Tsarist expansions in the long standing relationship between Russia and Britain (Rubin 1995). This began in the 19th century with such events as the Panjdeh Incident, a military conflict that occurred in 1885 when Russian forces seized Afghan territory south of the Oxus River around an oasis at Panjdeh (Rubin 1995). This interest in the region continued on through the Soviet era, with billions in economic and military aid sent to Afghanistan between 1955 and 1978 (Rubin 1995).

The situation in Afghanistan actually began in 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded their country. The United States funded money to the "mujahedin," or holy warriors, in the name of stopping communism. From this support, Afghanistan was able to defeat the Soviet Union in 1989. Yet the country became very unstable after the war. Political power was fluctuating often and leaders came in and out of power rapidly. Farmers resorted to growing many drugs such as poppies and marijuana and sold them around the globe. Cities were annihilated. Over five million Afghanis fled to other countries in search of a better life. When the Afghanis turned to the United States for help in rebuilding our country, we refused. This caused great anger amongst the Afghani people directed toward the United States. This also lead to Mullah Mohammod Omar, the current leader of Afghanistan, to form a ground of men to "rebuild" his country. They are now known as the Taliban. Omar's personal description is, "A simple band of dedicated youths determined to establish the laws of God on

In 1979, the USSR took control of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and tried to gain control over the whole country and its people. The invasion was a failure, costing thousands of lives and having serious consequences.

Just as civil conflict led to international conflict, international conflict lead to additional threats from other countries. Although GB only became involved with Afghanistan to prevent Russia from invading, within two centuries their involvement became futile. In 1979, Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Even after a long period of independence in Afghanistan, Afghan troops were unable to defeat the Soviets. The war was brutal, and lasted for an entire decade. Afghanistan remained a weak state from the Soviet-Afghan war, which made them susceptible to intervention from the U.S in 2001. Both events, the Soviet invasion and the arrival of American troops, can be traced back to the border. The border led to complex issues which occurred in quick succession, therefore Afghanistan and Pakistan had to pay attention to the issues that were right in front of them, because they were so apparent and pressing. However, as Af and Pak were distracted, more powerful countries like America and Russia were able to invade. It was an awareness of surrounding political climates that kept Russia and GB out of Afghanistan during the first Anglo-Afghan war, but with their own borders and issues to worry about Af and Pak paid no attention to other

Osama Bin Laden started the al-Qaida group. In addition, Bin Laden embraced the belief of jihad which lead him to creating al-Qaida in 1988. Osama thought Muslims should stir up in holy war and try to create one Islamic State. Bin Laden wanted to prove that Americans would not be "master of this world," he believed it was al-Qaida. The al-Qaida group started leaving their mark. Killing hundreds, they were responsible for the largest act of terrorism on U.S soil. In September 9th, 2001, the New York's World Trade Center was hit. As a result, the United

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on December 1979, the goal was to help Afghan communist forces set up a communist government. The Soviet Union felt Afghanistan had key resources and a foothold in the Middle East to spread communist ideas. The result would be a war that the Soviet Union wishes it never got involved in and likened to their “Vietnam War”, meaning winning a number of battles but not the war like what happened to the U.S. in Vietnam. The background of the war, outcome of the war, and impact on the United States are key to understanding the Soviet-Afghan War.

One of the world’s deadliest terrorists, Osama bin Laden, has cause havoc throughout the world by committing terror acts carried out by his Islamic extremist group, Al- Qaeda. Bin Laden has caused many problems throughout the world by his terrorism and this all came to an end on May 2, 2011. Seal Team Six was sent into his bunker and put an end to his life and his 10-year hide out after the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. Osama has been the leader of Al-Qaeda since 1988 and since then has committed numerous amounts of terror attacks on all parts of the world. Osama bin Laden has developed over time as a leader of Al-Qaeda, and through his beliefs of Muslim brotherhood, he developed into an extreme Islamic terrorist.

With radical Soviet-influenced changes to the current Islamic culture encompassing land ownership, marital law, education and social rights by the new Afghan regime tens of thousands of people in traditional Islamic society fled Afghanistan or were imprisoned and executed by the government. This began an Afghan civil war and the rise of the Mujahedeen in 1979. The United States took this as an opportunity to coerce the Soviet Union into war by covertly arming the Mujahedeen in order to fight the communist-backed government. With the Afghan government losing credibility with the Afghan people and control of the Afghan military by the desertion of soldiers willing to join the Mujahedeen they called on their Soviet allies to provide military assistance. During the summer of 1979 Moscow responded by sending enough men and equipment to provide security for the government in Kabul, secure two

In late December 1979 during the midst of the Cold War, Leonid Brezhnev former General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, sent his Soviet troops to Afghanistan and intervened in support of the Afghan communist government attempting to resolve conflict with anti – communists called the Afghan Guerrillas. The Afghan soviet invasion sustained for over nine years until February 1989 having an extremely high death toll and later becoming known as one of the most influential wars of last quarter of 20th century having caused the rise of extremist group Al-Qaida and is sometimes referred to as the Soviet Union's Vietnam War.

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

Like many countries throughout the world, the America’s involvement in Afghanistan began during the Cold War. Communists in 1978 seized power under the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, the PDPA, led by Nur Muhammad Taraki. The PDPA attempted to impose secular reforms and land redistribution, resulting in serious opposition. This opposition proved particularly forceful amongst the country’s religious leaders, who also represented a new wave Islamic revivalism within the Muslim world. By 1979 the communists were loosing control and President Carter authorized funding for covert action in the form of medical aid and propaganda for the opposition. In response the Soviets stepped up their presence and contributions to the communists