History of Osama Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was the 17th of 52 children his father Mohammed Bin Laden had. With him being young, in school and married like most Saudi men, he joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Islam was more than a religion to Bin Laden. It shaped his beliefs and influenced by Abdullah Azzam that all Muslims should move up in holy war to create a single Islamic state. During this time, the Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Bin Laden and Azzam came together to form a group with intentions to engage in the resistance. “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
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
1. Explain in your own words the message of each speech in terms of the future.
From a western perspective, Osama Bin Laden in nothing more than an inhuman murderer, therefore no one spends time to investigate why he does what he does, and for what reasons thousands of people sacrificed their lives for his cause, however, a quick glimpse through his excerpt shows that he does have an ideology that can be very appealing to a large number of people, any person that feels targeted by the United States can potentially find his claims to be persuasive, therefore, Bin Laden is not simply an insane man, he is smart man that was successful in gathering thousands around him despite being fought in every single aspect.
After the death of Osama bin Laden, his immediate family is hit hard emotionally and attacks western culture, specifically partying and drinking, and uses their money to advertise their outrage with what drinking and partying did to their son and with a net worth of about $7 billion (Frank, 2009) the bin Ladens reach a large amount of people and since most people there respected their opinion, a significant number of Saudi Arabians follow and start to stray from western culture and the temptations it holds when trying to live a “traditional” Muslim lifestyle. A second short term effect of Osama bin Laden dying from alcohol poisoning is bin Laden’s future colleague forming an Islamic Extremist group without bin Laden’s assistance. Abu ‘Ubaidah al-Banshiri, was born in May of 1950 in Cairo, Egypt and had strong feelings against Americans interfering with the politics in the Arabian peninsula. Al-Banshiri formed the group al-Qaeda with other men who felt the same. Al-Qaeda tried to get people to join the group and, “issued a fatwa, or religious edict, holding that “to kill the Americans and their allies—civilians and military—is an individual duty for every Muslim…” ( Funk &
Usama bin Laden, born in 1957, comes from a wealthy Saudi Arabian family that owns a multinational construction business. He used his inherited wealth to finance Afghan forces fighting the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980’s. After the 1991 Gulf War, he was distressed that Saudi Arabia allowed U.S. forces to remain in the Arabian Peninsula. To advance his agenda of expelling the U.S. from the Islamic world, he worked with other anti-Western fundamentalists to organize a secretive, highly compartmentalized terrorist network, known as al-Qaida. It is through his upbringing, education, culture, and wars in Islamic countries, that Usama bin Laden has sought to purge the
His father was of the working class but would progressively make more money and become fairly successful multi-millionaire after creating a construction company. His parents would go on to get divorced and he would go on to live with his mother and her new husband. At a young age, Osama was recognized as a brilliant but also timid student. He went to school at a prestigious academy in Jeddah and would study the Qur’an strictly. This would build a strong foundation for his Islamic beliefs.
March 10, 1957, Osama bin Laden was born. Osama was born into a wealthy family he was the seventeenth child out of fifty six. Osama had five wives and twenty children. One does not just become an extremist for no apparent reason. To Osama Islam was not just his religion, it shaped his life politically and just in
Osama bin Laden came from a very well-known Saudi family (Rosen). His father had his own successful construction company and was even close to the royal family (Rosen). His father died in a helicopter crash when Osama was only ten years old (Rosen). Bin Laden inherited a portion of his father’s fortune and became very wealthy (Rosen). However, bin Laden wanted to do something incredible in his own right to really live up to the “bin Laden” name (Rosen). He ended up finding a way to do so by successfully leading Afghanistan to defeat the Soviets
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
Once said by, Malala Yousafzai: “In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.” Many terrorist groups are taking over Afghanistan and fighting with governments to keep old traditions and cultures around in the country. Al-Qaeda groups were created by Osama Bin Laden. He was a man who fought to keep people and islamics culture together they were called “freedom fighters”. By the 1980’s, he was working to build roads and hideouts and made a base camp for training terrorists. When the Soviet Union separated from Afghanistan in 1989 and Saudi Arabia began to support the United States and move away from Islamic principles, Bin Laden became an outspoken critic of the
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian that came from a very wealthy family. He was born the seventeenth child out of fifty-two to the family of billionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Saudi Arabia. From an early age he was somewhat obsessed with religion and politics. During his time in school he was devoting more of his time and money to advance Islam and Islamism. While Bin Laden was studying at a university in 1979 he decided to join the Mujahedeen military in Pakistan that was combating Soviet Union forces in Afghanistan. Bin Laden gained popularity by assisting the Mujahedeen in finances, personnel recruitment, and arms supply. After the war he moved to Afghanistan and declared war on the United States. It was he who founded the Al-Qaeda, which was the group that masterminded the September 11 attacks on the United States, along other numerous terror attacks around the world. From 2001 till his death in 2011, bin Laden was the number one target of the war on terror with a $25-million-dollar bounty placed on his head by the FBI. He was eventually shot and killed in a compound in
Osama Bin Laden’s actions and those of his followers have changed the world in a very frightening way. On September 11,2001, members of al-Qaeda took action against our nation in the most unforgivable way you can imagine. The U.S. is considered to be the strongest, most powerful and secure country in the world, but on that fateful day, our nation’s sense of security was forever tarnished. It is tragic to think that an ignoramus who can learn how to crash a plane into a building could pose a potential threat to the world. Osama bin Laden’s assassination happened because he not only implanted fear into the lives of all Americans but also because we could no longer feel safe getting onto an airplane or going into a major building that might be
Al Qaeda activity in the Middle East began when Osama bin Laden became concerned that Iraq would invade Saudi Arabia after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraq was governed by Baathism, which represented a secular and modernizing style of government (Lee, 2004). In contrast, Muslims maintained a culturally traditional non-secular guided government; a government supported by Osama bin Laden. However, Saudi Arabia refused his offer of assistance. In 2009, the group Jund Ansar Allah, inspired by Al Qaeda, became active in Palestine in an area known as Gaza. However, the group’s leader was killed by Hamas, a Palestinian organization with military power, in 2009. Hamas’ deviation from the Islamic legal system based on religious Islamic practices was the issue behind the conflict. In 2000, Al Qaeda was responsible for a suicide bombing of a U.S. Navy destroyer, USS Cole. The suicide bombings became a popular activity of terrorists from 2003-2015, averaging one a month in the 1990’s to about 1 a day from 2003-2015. Suicide bombings accounted for thirty-two percent of all terrorism related deaths, and ninety per cent occurred in “Iraq, Isreal, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, and Pakistan”. Although the motivation behind the attacks vary, Pape (2015) contended, before the Civil War in 2003, that ninety per cent of suicide attacks in Iraq were to force occupying military forces out.
“Muslims, Bin Laden argues, must reverse a series of humiliations that they’ve endured since the Ottoman Empire, the last Muslim great power, was dismantled after World War I. Al-Qaeda’s 1998 declaration of a jihad, or holy war, against ‘Jews and Crusaders’ urges Muslims to attack ‘the Americans and their allies, civilian and military,’ supposedly as a response to U.S. policies that al-Qaeda feels oppress Muslims: the stationing of troops in Saudi Arabia; the backing of U.N. sanctions against Iraq; support for repressive Arab regimes; support for Israel; alleged complicity in Russian attacks on Muslims in Chechnya; and interventions in Bosnia, Somalia, and other Muslim regions that bin Laden sees as attempts to spread America’s empire. These Western policies, according to al-Qaeda, add up to a ‘clear
One of the world’s deadliest terrorists, Osama bin Laden, has cause havoc throughout the world by committing terror acts carried out by his Islamic extremist group, Al- Qaeda. Bin Laden has caused many problems throughout the world by his terrorism and this all came to an end on May 2, 2011. Seal Team Six was sent into his bunker and put an end to his life and his 10-year hide out after the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. Osama has been the leader of Al-Qaeda since 1988 and since then has committed numerous amounts of terror attacks on all parts of the world. Osama bin Laden has developed over time as a leader of Al-Qaeda, and through his beliefs of Muslim brotherhood, he developed into an extreme Islamic terrorist.