Background Information : Osama Bin Laden

Ngabo Kalisa Yvan Lee • Senior Thesis: Project Al-Qaeda In the recent past terrorism, especially in politically and economically unstable regions, brings a continuously growing threat for people from every color, religion or ethnic background. And also in rather safe areas, such as Europe or the U.S., people fear the threat of terrorism. For such inhumane violence a scapegoat is often easily found in Islam, the religion these groups affirm to fight for. Such belief can readily lead to condemnation

doing something. This paper will analyze different successes and failures of well-known operations of the CIA. The successes that will be analyzed are Operation Argo and the killing of Osama Bin Ladin. Operation Argo has recently become well known due to a movie being released about the operation. The killing of Osama Bin Ladin is probably the most popular case that the CIA had completed due to its significance in a time when the United States was quite vulnerable. This paper will review these two successes

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

This The Hamburg Cell showed the planning of the 9/11 attacks and the background of the terrorist who were involved. We are shown secret communication, classified documents, and interrogation information to understand how and why these men ended up doing what they did. The documentary describes each hijacker’s past and what each lead of them to pledge their allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Hamburg Cell presents all of the slip-ups that were made. There were multiple instances that the terrorist almost

Conclusion and recommendations A. This part of the report will cover an overview of the books strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations. Introduction Wright has a special way of explaining things. When reading this book, a reader need not have a background knowledge on terrorism, Wright crafts the book in such a way that it consists of a ten page list of the main characters, fifty pages of notes, a list of interviews held, a bibliography and a clear bibliography for those who would love research

Throughout history, terrorists have struck fear in the eyes of many people by using threats and violence to further political beliefs. Terrorism can be shown in many different ways; however, there are only two main types of terrorism: international and domestic. International terrorism usually occurs outside the jurisdiction, or boundaries, of the United States. Domestic terrorism is the exact opposite, occurring mostly within the jurisdiction of the United States. The violence of terrorism is

where she was supposed to meet with an informant who had classified information on the whereabouts of Bin Laden 's trusted courier. The portrayal of these terrorist attacks serves as a reminder to the audience of how bad they were consequently causing the film to appear more realistic. One of the central and most controversial aspects of Zero Dark Thirty is the usage and depiction of "enhanced interrogation" to gather information on the whereabouts of Al Qaida members. At the beginning of the film

terrorist leader, Osama bin Laden following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The film follows Maya, a CIA operative whose field assignment is to interrogate prisoners in order to find the whereabouts of al-Qaeda’s leader. She is initially hesitant about using enhanced interrogation techniques in order to retrieve intel from prisoners but later encourages those same torture techniques. For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the location of bin Laden. Finally

questions. Names such as Osama bin Laden, countries such as Afghanistan, and organizations such as Al-Qaeda were brought into the public's consciousness for the first time. Through newspapers, talkback radio and television programs the nation asked ‘why do they hate us so much?' Others, such as those in the government and public service, asked ‘what could we have done to have prevented this?' It is

government communication, not very thorough background checks on middle eastern immigrants, lack of proper preparation for possible terrorist attacks impacted the severity of the situation. On the day of the attack and months prior the government did not communicate effectively, so it cause the attack to be much worse. Prior to the event police had been invigilating possible acts of terrorism that could lead to Zacarias Moussaoui, with all of his information on his computer. Police applied for a search