Al Qaeda- Global Threat
Ricky Langlois
Florida Atlantic University
Abstract
Al Qaeda is a global organization founded by Osama Bin Laden. It is one of the most powerful and rich terrorist organizations in the world. The group is responsible for major attacks such as September 11th and many other bombings. Through the years Al Qaeda has transformed from a terrorist organization into a fighting group. It is now something known as jihadist networks. These networks of Al Qaeda are so powerful and can be seen as a global threat because of their worldwide supporters, financial means and their access to weapons.
Al Qaeda- Global Threat
In 1988, Osama Bin Laden founded
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Osama Bin Laden was one of the then most wanted fugitives and terrorists for his involvement in the U.S. embassy bombings. Even though the leader, Osama Bin Laden, was killed in 2011, the terrorist network still exists. Two days after his death, a new leader was elected. Osama Bin Laden was not the only one to be killed though, an FBI agent shot the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the leader of the Al Qaeda in East Africa was shot by a Policeman. Despite these killings, the Al Qaeda network is powerful and is still growing in the amount of their supporters.
Al Qaeda is a global threat because of their worldwide supporters, financial means and their access to weapons. In 2001, the groups were only active in Afghanistan and Pakistan and had little support from other areas. Now, the network has spread across five different continents, with seven different groups. They have a group in the Islamic Maghreb, Afghanistan, Europe, Oceana, Pakistan, East Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula. They have a great advantage by having all these different groups in different places because now they are so easily able to conduct an attack anywhere around the world. Each specific group has different targets. The Al Qaeda in East Africa (AQEA) is focused on bombing US embassies in Africa while the Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is focused on bombing US Warships and Tanks in the Middle East. Al Qaeda has grown in the number of supporters. As John Ellis, an American
Al Qaeda has taken responsibility for numerous attacks and attempts, including an attack that made Osama bin Laden very well known to many people in the United States. That attack occurred on September 11, 2001. Three planes were hijacked and the hijackers flew the planes into the United States territory, destroying the
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.
Al Qaeda or Al Qaida is an Islamic jihadist organization which calls itself as an Islamic resistance movement around the world, while it is always marked as a network international terrorist. Its founder, leader
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 consent of the occupants, destroy Israel and it’s affiliates, terrorize the United States of America, financially bleed the United States, and fight to defend the rights of Muslims. The organization’s numerous attacks against the United States, and all of humanity (except the Muslims) have changed the world’s perception of terrorism. There are numerous religious affiliates of al-Qaeda, some of which include, Sunni Islamism, Takfirism, and Qutbism. There are very few supporters of al-Qaeda’s beliefs and actions. Osama bin Laden issued a fatwa, a ruling point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority, which eventually amounted to a public declaration of war against the United States and its allies. There is a tremendous amount of confusion about the connections between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Although the two have ties, they are completely separate and distinct groups who have different goals. Starting in the late 1980s, an international terrorist network, al Qaeda, changed the
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Al-Qaeda grew from the Service Office founded in 1980 lead by the infamous Osama bin Laden. This was an office that was tasked with destroying Muslim brigade that stood in the way of the Soviets invasion of Afghanistan. However, Laden did not want to stop after this task. He began to train and recruit warriors from over 20 countries. With these fighters, Bin Laden planned to carry the holy war past Afghanistan. This lead to the creation on Al-Qaeda in 1988. The group was focused on removing western influence from Muslim theocracy and create strict Islamic governments.
Al-Qaeda was the name of the group to aim carry out suicide attacks against important United States buildings. An Islamic extremist terrorist system started by Osama bin Laden. With franchise operations in at least sixteen other countries, al-Qaeda seeks to overthrow Middle-Eastern governments or other places with strong Muslim representation that do not force religiously-sanctioned social and political order. Knowing that if those areas were to fail, then the people would have to start back over from square 1. Knocking out the United States way of trade.
The Terrorist Organization Al Qaeda is determined to end the U.S. influence in Islamic Nations. Al Qaeda and its founder Osama Bin Laden are believed to be responsible for many of the worst terrorist attacks of the 20th and 21st century Bin Laden's goal for Al Qaeda began to change during the Persian Gulf War, when he became angry at the presence of U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda continued to focus on U.S. targets throughout the 1990s, and it is suspected of being involved in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 and the bombing of USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.
Al-Qaeda’s leadership masterminds a loosely organized network of cells, with a small, mobile and decentralized infrastructure. It recruits members from thousands of Arab Afghan veterans and radicals around the world, with each cell operating independently with its members not knowing the identity of other cells.
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