Al Qaeda, the organization that the United States is in a constant, never ending battle with, the organization that has made the most impact and changed the United States forever. Al Qaeda is always making headlines with their terrorist attacks, the most known attack September 11th, 2001. This essay is about the terrorist group Al Qaeda, its history and background, Osama bin Laden, their well-known leader, and the major attacks on America.
Al Qaeda, or Al Qaida, is a global militant Islamist organization. It was agreed upon as a terrorist organization by almost every nation such as the United States, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty), the European Union, United Kingdom, United Nations, India, and many more countries. Al Qaeda is a organization
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On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed by Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group. After the body of Bin Laden was ctaken to Afghanistan for identification, it was buried at sea. Al Qaeda confirmed the death of bin Laden on May 6th and vowed to seek revenge against the United States. Ayman al-Zawahiri, former Deputy Operations Chief of Al Qaeda, took the role of commander of Al Qaeda in place of bin Laden.
Al Qaeda is most known for their terrorist attacks. They have had six major attacks and four of them were towards America to seek revenge. The first terrorist attack was on December 29, 1992. They detonated two bombs in Aden, Yemen at the Movenpick Hotel and Goldmohur Hotel in hope of eliminating the American soldiers that were on their way to Somalia. Fortunately, no Americans were killed but some were injured.
In 1993 there was an attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. There was a truck bomb and the plan was to break the foundation of one of the towers so that it will fall onto tower two, bringing the entire complex down, and in hope that it would kill about 250,000 people. The towers shook and swayed but only killed six people and injured 1,042 others. After the attack, Ramzi Yousef, the one behind the attack, fled to Pakistan and moved to Manila, Philippines. He also developed plans to destroy and cause trouble to a dozen other American airlines, to assassinate Pope John
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 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
Prior to September 11, 2001, people could sneak weapons onto planes. The weapons included explosives and tools that individuals could use to help hijack planes. In 1995, Al Qaeda plotted to bomb 12 United States trans-Pacific flights and also planned to kill Bill Clinton on his trip to the Philippines (Cronin 2). Al Qaeda is a Muslim extremist group that is known for resorting to terrorism and killing to please God. When a Muslim extremist group a deadly attack, they think that they are eliminating the evil in the world.
The event that transpired on September 11, 2001 was nothing but devastating. The teams of the terrorist group hijacked jetliners going to Boston, Newark, New Jersey and Washington D.C. Al Qaeda murdered the planes’ pilots and took control of the aircraft's’, putting the lives of others on the line. The Islamic group, Al Qaeda caused a tremendous impact, which led to the deaths and injuries of more than 6,000 people. People viewed this attack as an act of war.
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
Al Qaeda (the base) a life-changing event founded by Osama Bin Laden. Al Qaeda is known to be one of the most powerful terrorist organizations in the world. This networking organization has an enormous responsibility of the September 11th attack and other bombings that has brought a great amount of grief, sadness, and sorrow to our country. It shows that everyone is different in the way think in this world and how they perform there actions. The mind of a maniac of how Osama Bin Laden had complete control over his people and how he thought he ruled the world to lead to September 11th is just sick. But it did change America’s hearts forever. We all now have a bond so strong that it can never be broken.
It is difficult to go anywhere where the Al Qaeda terrorist group is not known. While terrorist groups have been traditionally been known to influence, inhabit, and operate in areas of the Middle East. Al Qaeda has become a household name within the United States after September 11, 2001 when the group was responsible for one of the most devastating attack on the lower 48 states. The days to follow the attack are fundamentally responsible for the development and enactment of the Patriot Act by the United States.
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.
Nineteen radicals linked to the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda gained control over four airplanes and carried out attacks against targets in the United States on 9/11. (History.com Authors) Their leader, Osama Bin Laden, and his followers viciously opposed the United States. In al-Qaeda’s opinion, the United States was an "infidel because it was not governed in a manner consistent with the group 's extremist interpretation of Islam.” Other characteristics of America aggravated the extremist group as well, including our foreign policy and supporting enemies of al-Qaeda. Because of his hatred of America, Bin Laden declared a “Jihad, or holy war, against the United States, which he has carried out through al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations.” (Smith) As a result, the United States faced many violent attacks with the group, including the bombing in 1993 that took place before the attacks on September 11th.
When we talk about the super power of the world, would you imagine that there would be an enemy so small but so able to provoke the super power of the world The United States. Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist network, which is considered the most significant terrorist threat to the United States. Al-Qaeda is a prominent group among the hundreds of terrorist organizations that despise The United States. Al-Qaeda was established around 1988 by Osama bin Laden. This terrorist organization is comprised of thousands of fighters from different countries all over the world. Osama bin Laden first formed this organization to take part in the resistance to defeat the Soviet Union. At a time when the Soviet Union was invading Afghanistan. An analysis of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda reveals that it is challenging for the United States to win a war that is not physical in nature but primarily psychological. Terrorist groups tend to wage a war that is physical in some aspects but the key to victory for a terrorist organization is to win through psychological attacks and tactics. Al-Qaeda is an important terrorist group not only because they are a well-known group that poses a significant threat to the United States and western interest, but for the reason that it has survived and been in operation for over four decades.
Al-Qaeda is a Sunni sunni Islamistislamist organization that was founded by Osama bin Laden. They have made an impact on many parts of the world. Impacts that would cause casualties that is. Just three organizations Al-Qaeda is tied to are the Haqqani, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the Taliban. Although Al-Qaeda has few agents left in Afghanistan they still managed and manage to cause devastating acts of violence. One of the ways they were and still are able to make such an impact is by working with other organizations with similar views for their ideal future.
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, or “the Base” in Arabic, is an arrangement of extremists initially organized by Osama Bin Laden. Al-Qaeda originated throughout the uprising against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Thousands of volunteers from around the Middle East came to Afghanistan as mujahideen, warriors fighting to defend fellow Muslims. Bin Laden returned to his native Saudi Arabia after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and founded an organization to help veterans of the Afghan war, thus creating the basis of al-Qaeda. The death of Bin Laden, who was killed in a joint operation by US troops and CI operatives in May 2011, complicated the future of al-Qaeda. Some speculated that the group might seek retaliation, while others wondered if they would wallow without their supreme leader. More than a month after bin Laden’s death, al-Qaeda named Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri as their new leader. Following bin Laden’s death another powerful top ranking al-Qaeda leader, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, was killed in June. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was the leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa and was responsible for the organized US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998.
On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists who were members of the Islamic terrorist organization named al-Qaeda, hijacked four commercial airplanes and committed suicide attacks against the United States. Two of the planes were ran into the towers of the World Trade Center (Twin Towers) in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside of Washington, D.C. The fourth plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks resulted in mass death and destruction, triggering the United States initiatives to fight terrorism and defend our country. Over 3,000 people were killed during the attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., among these people were more than 400 police officers and 300 firefighters, these heros lost their lives
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