Al-Qaeda

the world, then they are most likely talking about Al Qaeda (The Base/Eir Shura). There are many beliefs that Al Qaeda has been around for centuries due to the views and origins of many threat groups before them. Going of known facts, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan on approximately August 11, 1988 is the date that Al Qaeda was founded by Osama Bin Laden (54 years old) and has been terrorizing many parts of the world ever since then. Al Qaeda was first used for the Arabs who believed that the

The only reason why al Qaeda was failing at the time was that they were being defeated by other countries. However, many factors contributed to those defeats, the reason was the strategy, tactics used by al Qaeda and jihadist in general, with the view of the world on which that strategy and tactics were resulted in (McCabe, Thomas R. 2010). To the extremists’ the complete worldview had been on a misguided or unusual assumption that did not have little or no basis of fact. McCabe mentioned the five

International Relations Al Qaeda: Origins, Development and Objectives Select any terrorist group we studied and explain its origins, development and objectives. Al Qaeda is an international terrorist organization that was founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s in Peshawar, Pakistan. The name is Arabic for “The Base of Operation” or “method” (Burke 2004). However, many experts agree that al-Qaeda is more dangerous as an ideology than as an organization. As an organization, it has been

terrorist group al-Qaeda has one primary goal, to eliminate all US influence in the world and has pursued that goal through negative, violent means. However, the efforts of Al Qaeda towards eliminating all U.S. influence around the world have been unsuccessful because of the obstacles posed by the U.S. military and its counterterrorism efforts. Al Qaeda, the Islamic terrorist

Osama bin Laden founded al-Qaeda in 1988 with the goal to rid Muslims countries of western influences and replace their governments with Islamic regimes. Born in an extraordinarily wealthy family, Osama bin Laden used his family’s money to found the terroristic organization. Abdullah Yusus Azzam was an influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar who mentored bin Laden and persuaded him to come to Afghanistan. The main goals of al-Qaeda are to: spread Islam through the world with or without the

laden leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist group became one of the most powerful, fearful and well known terrorist group in the world, to this day Citation. The Al Qaeda terrorist group is one of the wealthiest terrorist groups to date giving thousands of trained and motivated fighter’s access to deadly weapons Citation. Many of these Solders carried out vicious acts contributing in the killings of thousands. The research shown below will help explore the reasoning behind the Al Qaeda terrorist group, specifically

and tactics of ISIL and al-Qaeda. Islamist group is known to be having the highest degree of terrorist attack, especially among the Sunni orientated groups. Islamic terrorism is described as the post-cold war phenomena, particularly after the 911 attack, there is on average an attack every day around the world. Introduction ISIL Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which controls territory mainly in Iraq and Syria, was formed in April 2013, it was grown out of al Qaeda. The main ideology behind

Al-Qaeda activities in terrorist plots can be traced back to almost 23 years ago, one of their first attack was in 1993 when a associate of Bin Laden named, Ramzi Yousef was charged and found guilty of orchestrating a bombing, that took place in the parking garage of The World Trade Center. It left six people dead and over 1042 injured, Ramzi was sentenced to life in prison without any possibility of parole. In 1995 seven people are killed when two bombs detonate at a U.S- Saudi military base, Bin

2000-Al Qaeda carried out a planned attack with the bombing of the USS Cole. A small vessel loaded with explosives pulled alongside the USS Cole and detonated it’s cargo of explosives, 17 American sailors were killed in the attack. “Suicide attacks can also demonstrate to observers as well as target audiences how determined the group is and how far it is willing to go to achieve its objectives.” (Lutz, 2011, p.60). 2000-A CIA proxy force, the Northern Alliance attacked Derunta training camp near

argue that modern tactics require different approaches from what has been done in the past to fight terrorism, and explore this difference between this past and present technological recruitment phenomenon. I will examine this issue using ISIS and Al Qaeda as a case study, by finding how it effectively utilizes and issues propaganda, therefore influencing citizens to join their fight. What is different