Al Qaed A Global Threat

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.

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

The creator of this group was Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. and Osama Bin Laden had different opinions on who had more power and a better religion (Cassidy Frieling). The main reason on why Al-Qaeda did this attack was because of disapproval of America’s relationship with Israel (Olivia Pelaez). The reason behind this is because Israel and the United States are the closest because the U.S. supports them with military and financial assistance (Kyrie Dozer). Also, they wanted America to be the same religion as them which is Islamic (Kyrie Dozer). To sum it up, the reason why Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. was because our relationship with Israel and our different viewpoints of

To understand the convoluted events of Al-Qaeda’s reign of terror on America I had to delve into the history of Al-Qaeda’s origins and

Bin Laden was on the FBI’s most wanted list for 10 years until the SEAL aided by the CIA captured him on May 2, 2011 in Abbottabad . Osama was one of the main founders of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda that targeted not only American citizens, but also anyone who stood in the way of what their beliefs were and what they thought to be their mission on Earth. Al-Qaeda was formed in 1988. Bin Laden formed the Al-Qaeda network whose job was to carry out global strikes against Western interests (Osama Bin Laden Biography). He is believed to have orchestrated at least a dozen attacks, some were successful,while others ,were not. Among the worst of these were two truck bombings, in which more than 200 people were killed , both happened on August 7, 1998, of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (Osama Bin

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

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 Laden terrorist group is blamed for the attack. In the summer of 1996 Bin Laden's followers bomb another U.S military base in Saudi Arabia, leaving 19 American soldiers killed and many other wounded. Fast forward to the summer of 1998, a bombs explodes

In 1980, Muslims around the world voyaged to a jihad opposed to the soviet union and after the defeat of the soviet union; Bin Laden and associates of al Qaeda started to assemble jihads elsewhere. Al Qaeda developed many features since it’s beginning. For example, they raised money illegally to fund the attack, transported minions across the world for attacks, created moles inside powerful administrations that could oversea their operations, they

Al-Qaeda was formed because the group was meant to help repeal foreign influences in the Middle East. When The United states of America had attacked Iraq and had entered Saudi Arabia, Bin laden thought America was involved and he had felt backstabbed by the Saudi Arabia Government. The United

The terrorist group, Al-Qaeda, was an Islamic terrorist group that was led by Osama bin Laden. They may have attacked because the USA supported Israel. They also may have attacked because they were involved in the Persian Gulf War and their military. The terrorists might have been targeting the White House or the Capitol. In May 1998, ABC reporter John Miller interviews Osama Bin Laden. During the interview, John Miller asks, “Mr. bin Laden, you have issued a fatwah calling

The rise of Al-Qaeda in the 1990s and especially following the attacks in 2001, terrorist groups formed rampantly. They became concentrated in areas of the world with turmoil, such as the Middle East and West Asia. Some even formed in a

Terrorism has been around for many years but it wasn’t until the unfortunate event that took place on September 11th, 2001 that everything changed. After the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York that left over 2,996 dead, and 6,000+ injured and much of the world devastated. Everyone started to ask questions about terrorism and wondered who could be behind such an awful attack. The group who bombed the world trade center would go on to become one of the most dangerous terrorist groups in history, they would come to be known as " Al- Qaeda". Al-Qaeda which in Arabic means " The Base" was founded by Abdullah Azzam and Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan. Azzam was a teacher and mentor to Osama when he was in university, Azzam was assassinated

There are several terrorist groups throughout the world today. All the terrorist groups have one common goal and that is to rid the world of Americans and western influence from the Muslim world. There is one organization that has ties to most of all the terrorist groups in the world and is the most infamous group in the world today and that is the group called Al-Qaeda The word Al-Qaeda means “the base” in Muslim. As an international terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden. The group seeks to rid Muslim countries of western influence and replace them with fundamentalist Islamic regimes. Al-Qaeda grew out of the of the ashes of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1988, after it helped expel the Soviet

453). A prime example of an Islamic Fundamentalist movement is al-Qaeda which was a new militant Islamic group when it emerged in 1988. It followed on from the spread of strong religious beliefs and codes that was common in Africa and the Middle- East (Garner, Ferdinand and Lawson, 2007, p. 150). Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, its goal when established was to spread the word of God and to make his religion to most triumphant religion of all. A main characteristic of Islamic Fundamentalism is to create a theocracy which is a regime based on religious principles (Garner, Ferdinand and Lawson, 2007, p. 150). Al-Qaeda is most known for its attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in the USA in 2001, whom they openly claimed responsibility for and motivated the USA's war on terror (Goodwin, 2007, p. 432).