9/11 Foreign Policy

Exiled from his native land of Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden resides in Afghanistan where he administers his network of terror. He blames the United States and the West for the struggles of the Muslim world. His goal is to create a society governed by Islam, free from the corruption of the West, and the culmination of this dream is to drive the United States and the Jews from the Middle East. He fights this war not only through terrorist action, but also with the power of language, and the skills of rhetoric and propaganda to accomplish his goals.

This fanatic gathering was going by Osama Bin Laden a Saudi Arabian son of a very rich Construction tycoon. Bin Laden was conceived from his father’s tenth spouse and he was the seventh of 50 offspring to his father. At the point when the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan in 1979, Bin Laden joined the Afghan resistance, trusting it was his obligation as a Muslim to battle the occupation. He migrated to Peshawar, Afghanistan utilizing help from the United States under the CIA program Operation Cyclone. Bin Laden then started preparing a mujahideen, a gathering of Islamic jihadists. At the point when the Soviets pulled back from the nation in 1989, Bin Laden came back to Saudi Arabia as a legend, and the United States alluded to him and his officers as "Flexibility Fighters." Bin Laden talked openly against the Saudi government's dependence on American troops, trusting their nearness befouled consecrated soil. After a few endeavors to hush Bin Laden the Saudis expelled the previous war legend. Bin Laden started executing his savage arrangements, with the objective of drawing the United States into war. His trust was that Muslims, bound together by the fight, would make a solitary, genuine Islamic state. In 1996, to forward his objective, Al Qaeda exploded truck bombs against U.S. drives in Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda then asserted obligation regarding slaughtering voyagers in Egypt, and in 1998 the bombarding of the U.S. consulates in Nairobi, Kenya, and Tanzania, executing about 300 individuals. (Biography.com Editors,

During the 1990s, Osama bin Laden, a fundamentalist militant and leader of Al-Qaeda, issued several fatwas (legal edicts) opposed to the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia. By middle of 1996, Al-Qaeda was barely functioning as a terrorist organization, and had only thirty members. Facing irrelevance and anxious that he was losing his leadership role over Islamist militants worldwide, bin Laden, announced a "blessed jihad" to oppose the United States and its Western allies on August 23, 1996 (Bruce, et al., 2005). As part of this jihad, bin Laden declared war on the United States, which he intended to recruit new members for Al- Qaeda. This effort failed.

“In 1988, Bin Laden created a new group called al-Qaida that would focus on acts of terrorism instead of military campaigns.” However, the western Saudi Royal

Al-Qaeda and its leaders, Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri are frequently popular world news subjects. (Piszkiewicz, 2003, p. iii) The world seems to want to be constantly aware of the goings on of these people and their organization. There is no secret to the desired need for this information. As most people know Al-Qaeda is a significant and ongoing threat to the world, with regard to terrorist activities and continued fundamentalist extremism with regard to jihad, or what these extremists see as a holy war against the rest of the world, but mostly the Western world. This work will begin with a short introduction to the threat that Al-Qaeda poses to the world as a way to develop a full profile of the organization,

Al Qaeda has pursued its goal of eliminating all U.S influence around the world by joining

The War on Terrorism has been a dynamic concept since 9/11 catastrophe and having been changed during presidential rotations along with their polices within the framework of US Foreign Policy. Naturally, terrorism and its supporters have been the painful issues for America and the World since their radicalization and expansionism in the light of 9/11 and after. The US FP has always been elastic to a changing character of terrorism; it has formed US behavior, and, in particular, its foreign policy towards a terrorist threat. In turn, America has presented itself not solely as a global hegemon acting in an unipolarity but also as a severe advocate and defender of the World security and democracy; precisely, as a counterterrorist actor on the

As mentioned earlier, the United States counterterrorism efforts consistently focused on diffusing power. While it is a necessary step to put a stop to the leaders of insurgency groups, this task has ample support due to the funding the U.S. Military has that is directed at completing this task. For this reason, the attention needs to be shifted towards inner-state problems in order to prevent another organization from coming in and filling the void left by its predecessor. Nevertheless, this task is more practical in theory because terrorist organizations tend to dampen “the options of operatives outside the club” (Berman 2011, 185) in everyday life. Therefore, members of the organization are unlikely to defect. This is a major hurdle, but it is far from

On September 11th 2001, America experienced the most catastrophic terrorist attack on its home soil in the history of the country. The men responsible for this event hailed from Middle Eastern countries and identified as Islamic extremists. Two years after the attack, former president George W. Bush, announced that the United States would declare war on the terrorism and on the nations in the Middle East that harbored the terrorists group Al-Qaeda. The men at the top of this organization have been taken out of power and Al-Qaeda’s influence and leaders have been silenced to a certain extent. However, the United States still faces resistance in this unstable region and a new terrorist organization, ISIS, has appeared and is showing the

Al-Qaeda is the single largest terrorist group with a worldwide reach. The inception of this group is attributable to the association of Osama bin Laden and other Islamist groups around 1988. The global organization calls for Jihad against the west and Israel sympathizers. It was formed because of the western interference in matters involving the Middle East. The government established by Taliban had ties to the Afghan fighters in the war against the Russian invasion. These fighters were loyal to the Taliban, and they influenced the conscription of more youth into al-Qaeda. The organization was funded by wealthy Arabs and bin Laden’s personal fortune.

In order to understand the policies adopted in the War on Terror, we must first look to the origins of the conflict as well as the practices involved. Whilst the term itself was initially introduced during the Reagan administration, it was given renewed vigour under George Bush following the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon on 9/11. The consequences of these attacks saw the Bush administration undertake a new policy against terrorism which included: defeating terrorists and abolishing their organisations, denying sponsorship and support to terrorists and defending US citizen’s interests at home and abroad (Whitehouse Archives, 2003). In this way, the War on Terror can be considered more than just an armed conflict

Jones, Seth G., and Martin C. Libicki. How terrorist groups end: Lessons for countering al Qa'ida. Rand Corporation, 2008.

Prior to the outbreak of civil war in the middle-eastern nation of Syria, the only terror-organization known commonly throughout their target of the western world was al-Qaeda. After the events that had transpired of the eleventh of September, 2001 had become etched into the hearts of nearly all advocates of western values, so too became branded on them a burning hatred for those responsible, which was greatly reflected in their foreign policy to that part of the world. Now, amidst the rise of the Islamic State, that hatred and indeed that fear has transferred to the Syrian and Iraqi conquerors, a group deemed overtly radical by even the former overlords of terrorism otherwise known as al-Qaeda. Although not renown throughout the United States

Founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, who fought and trained alongside the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the 1989 Soviet Invasion, al-Qa’ida (variant al-Qaeda, al-Qaida), is an international Sunni Islamist terrorist organization. Literally translating to ‘the Base,’ this organization is considered the top terrorist threat to the United States, its interests abroad, and its allies. The organization is wanted for orchestrating and conducting the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a rather large number of lesser attacks. It is the only terrorist group to have successfully conducted a large-scale attack on American soil. In order to escape the post-9/11 U.S.-led invasion and war in Afghanistan, many of the group’s members fled to Pakistan, in the process securing a safe haven.

Set up around 1988 by container Loaded, al-Qaeda financed, enroll, transport and prepare a huge number of contenders from many nations to be a piece of an Afghan imperviousness to vanquish the Soviet Union. To proceed with the blessed war past Afghanistan, al-Qaeda 's present objective is to set up a skillet Islamic Caliphate all through the world by working with partnered Islamic fanatic gatherings to oust administrations it considers "non-Islamic" and removing Westerners and non-Muslims from Muslim nations.