Osama Bin Laden, A Powerful Leader

After his first visit to Afghanistan during the first few weeks of the Soviet Invasion, he became involved in supporting the mujahdeen, a ruling party in Afghanistan at the time. After this point, he became heavily involved in fighting jihad, or holy war, and began to build up his own military training camps (Frontline: A biography). Beginning in his childhood, Osama was inundated with a strict Islamic way of life. Looking at the people who played the biggest roles in his life at this time: his authoritarian father, Islamic scholars, movement leaders, and Afghani soldiers fighting jihad, the reasons for him being who he is become more apparent. He has been fighting holy wars since he was a teenager (Frontline: Edicts), and jihad has become a way of life for him.

Osama is the main suspect that U.S. officials say could be behind the hijacking attacks and other numerous international terrorist assaults. These attacks were the result of a “holy war”, declared against the United States by Osama Bin Laden. Laden's anger with the United States in 1990 from the decision by Saudi Arabia to allow the U.S. to stage attacks on Iraqi forces in Kuwait and Iraq. After the U.S. victory, the U.S. military presence became permanent. In a CNN interview with bin Laden in 1997, he said the ongoing U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia is an "occupation of the land of the holy places.” (Anti-Defamation League, “Osama Bin Laden: Profile”). He left Saudi Arabia in 1991 after a feud with the Saudi monarchy, taking assets that had grown to an estimated $250 million with him. In 1996, bin Laden issued a "fatwah," which is a religious ruling urging Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia and Somalia. Another fatwah in 1998 called for attacks on American civilians. These terrorists are not born as killers, but are made through Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist training

Osama Bin Laden, seventeenth son among fifty brothers and sisters, was born on 1957 in Saudi Arabia. Mohammed Awad Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden’s father, was a rich man who owned a large construction company. His family’s company was the largest in the kingdom of King Saud from Saudi Arabia. After Mohammed built a good relationship with the royal family, the king issued a decree that all construction projects should go to Bin Laden. As his father was having a good jog in the kingdom, Osama had his primary and secondary education in Jeddah. In Osama’s early years, age 13, he experienced the loss of his father, who had

The Saudi royal family feared Osama 's beliefs and what he wanted too. As an attempt to keep him quiet the royal family took away his passport. Bin Laden was outraged because the royal family wanted help from the United States to help contain him, Osama was an extremist.

Killing, bombing, revenge, murder, assassination, terrorism, are all the things Osama Bin Laden is capable of. He was the 17th of 52 children born to Mohammed Bin Laden. He was more of the middle child but not the youngest of his family. He went to a Pakistani city on the border of Afghanistan to join resistance. Osama bin laden wanted to stay close to home and he married young and he joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. I believe that Osama Bin Laden wanted to get revenge on the United States for bombing Iraq.

The Soviets invaded Afghanistan, in 1979. Osama, believed he should join Afghan in his duties as a Muslim to fight the occupation. He moved to Peshawar, Afghanistan. Osama used aid from the United State under CIA Program, operation cyclone. After the Soviets left their country in 1989, Osama went back to Saudi Arabia. He returned as a hero, the United States referred to him as a “Freedom Fighter.” Osama was disappointed with what he thought was a corrupt Saudi government. His frustration with the United State occupation, Saudi Arabia, during the war of Persian Gulf. Osama spoke against Saudi government, reliance of American troops.

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

Muhammad Khalil al-Hukaymah is the organizations presumed founder (Winter, 2011, p. 886). Considered a “raising star” in the jihadi movement, al-Hukaymah was designated as Al-Qaeda’s chief propagandist from 2006-2008 (Winter, 2011, p. 886). Fitting the profile of many ranking al-Qaeda leaders, he traveled extensively through Afghanistan and Pakistan in the late 1990’s until the fall of the Taliban in 2002 (Winter, 2011, p. 886). He fled to Pakistan via Iran where he

During the1970s, The USSR was the biggest threat to America and radical Islam were not as a concern of the USA. With this being known the USA began funding and training Islamic militants to fight Russian in Afghanistan (Cganemccalle, Newsome.com, 2011). These militants, known as the Mujahedeen would rebel the Russians out of Afghanistan and later become known as the Taliban, Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood. One of the most prominent members of the mujahedeen, was a wealthy son of a Saudi Arabian businessman named Osama Bin Laden. One of the first non-Afghan volunteers to join the ranks of the mujahedeen was Osama bin Laden, a civil engineer and business from a wealthy construction family in

Yemen is the original land of birth of Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden 's family were emigrating from Wadi Dawan, a valley in the Hadramaut, to Saudi Arabia in the early nineteenth century. Al –Qaeda strengthen in Yemen for many reasons, first, it incubator environment represented by the tribes, besides a number of its members involved in the Afghan war.

Ayman al-zawahiri was an ophthalmologist (eye surgeon) and also one of the founders of Egyptian militant group Islamic Jihad. After the death of Osama Bin Laden, he was made the leader of al-Qaeda on 16 June 2011.Under his leadership al-Qaeda continued its jihad against crusader America and its servant Israel and whoever supported them. According to some authentic resources Zawahiri was also suspected to be the operational brain behind the 11 September 2001 attacks in US.As he is one of the group’s chief ideologue and missionary. On the list of 22 most wanted terrorists, issued by the government of US in 2011, Zawahiri was second only to Bin Laden and continues to have a $25m bounty on his head. He went underground after the US-led attack to overthrow the Taliban. One of his wives and two children also got killed in an US air strike in 2011. Security analysts believe him to be hidden somewhere around Afghan-Pakistan border region. US again launched an air strike in Jan 2006 at Damadola, a Pakistani village near the Afghan-Pakistan border, where they suspected zawahiri to be hiding and killed eighteen villagers including four children. US sources suggested

“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

Almost three years after he died, the United States and Pakistan have officially announced the death of Mullah Mohamed Omar, Taliban leader and arch-terrorist. The Afghan government announced that it holds credible information that in April 2013, Omar died in Pakistan. The US State Department also confirmed the news, but did not give

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.

Ayatollah Khomeini declared war on Iraq when Iraq invaded western Iran in 1980. The war had started over a dispute over the Shatt Al-Arab waterway.(“Ruhollah Khomeini”) This lead Khomeini to prolong the war in hopes of taking out Saddam Hussein. After 8 years of fighting, The UN stepped in and offered a cease-fire treaty. Both sides accepted the offer even though Iran had already won. Ayatollah left his troops in Iraq until an official formal peace agreement was signed in 1990. (“Iran-Iraq War”)