Osama Bin Laden: A Villain

Fourteen years ago, on September 11th 2001, the future for the entire country was impacted and changed. The United States wasn’t engaged in any wars, few of us had ever heard of Osama bin Laden, and we deported half the number of people we do today. But maybe hardest to believe, you didn’t have to take your shoes off at the airport.

We had finally done it!! On May 7, 2011 Osama bin laden had finally paid his due for the attacks on 9/11 killing thousands and injuring many more he is now buried in the ocean due to his tradition it's really funny he bombed us and we can bury him by his tradition. Osama Bin Laden’s killing was justified because he started 9/11 and he threatened national security of our american citizens and the Navy SEALS that were on the assignment of killing Bin Laden; However some people may argue that the assassination of Osama Bin Laden was justified because he did not want Americans to influence his people.

After reading The Longest War I had a pretty good understanding of how other countries viewed 9/11 and how they responded to it. Then after reading many different articles on the Library Research Page it made it clear why these countries felt the way they did. On the research page, I researched George Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Tora Bora, World News to 9/11 in 2001, Guantanamo Bay and The Patriot Act. I researched many different types of articles which helped give me a better perspective on how other countries reacted to 9/11 and the events that followed.

Contrary to popular opinion claiming it to be righteous retribution for his acts of radical Islamist terror, the assassination of Osama bin Laden by the US government was unjustified because it was illegal under international law, morally wrong, and detrimental to national security.

Osama Bin Laden was once the most feared and influential terrorist in the Middle East. Born in Saudi Arabia, and raised as a devout Muslim, he began to question whether or not Western Civilization is a religiously acceptable thing. Once a multi-millionaire, Bin Laden gave up all his wealth in order to lead a new terrorist force. He killed thousands, forcing Muslim extremist values onto the people of the Middle East. He was leader and founder of the powerful terrorist group Al-Qaeda, orchestrator of the 9/11 attacks and made it on FBI’s most wanted list. Was he actually a religious hero, a holy warrior, a man of god? What separates Bin Laden from the many other people who have fought for what they believe is right?

“Terrorist is a person, usually a member of a group, who was or advocates terrorism.” Foreign terrorist has been around for decades. In this paper I will be discussing one particular terrorist we all know, Osama Bin Laden.

Hero or a Villain What’s the difference between a terrorist and a hero? John Brown is considered a martyr in the eyes of many and had a major role in the Kansas- Nebraska Act. During the Kansas Act, John Brown and his four sons took a big role killing five people themselves in order to abolish slavery, successfully. He used violence against slavery, but he used it to defend his claim of killing slavery.

I chose Osama Bin Laden as the political figure for my project because I have always wanted to see the unbiased side of his story and that’s exactly what I got from Michael Scheuer. People all over the world saw Osama has the face of terrorism. People have to look past the mass murderer, terrorist, and at times the most wanted man in the world. You have to look at him as the intelligent person that he was. Osama for two decades was allowed to rebel, conducting a private guerilla war against America. His goals were to get American troops out of Saudi Arabia, to preserve the religious integrity of the Hijaz, and to punish America for supporting Israel and hope that Israel could cease to exist and its Jews scrubbed from the Holy Land. The greatest impact Bin Laden had on America were the attacks on 9/11 which was when he and Al Qaeda successfully hijacked four commercial aircrafts, two crashed into the World Trade Center (Twin Towers). The third crashed into the pentagon in Arlington Virginia, and the fourth was successfully retaken by the passengers and crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. The people of America wanted to know what could cause someone to do these gruesome acts. Michael Scheuer really helped show his childhood. Osama wasn’t always a terrorist, he was a innocent child. He was an outstanding student at Al Thagher. Correspondingly, he received an invitation to join a islamic study group in hope to receive extra credit. He and other Jedda family members joined

If he had gone home and thought about what he was going to do after he had vowed to help slaves then people probably would not see him as a terrorist. If he had gone about his plans a different way than people would see the good in what he did and his ways of helping. His disastrous and murderous ways of his attack lead him to be labeled as a terrorist and ideally a troubled person. The people he had helped him also seemed to have their own problems. One of the people he had managed to help him was a free slave whose wife was taken into slavery and she was begging him to get her free. His ideas and his helping was not very good and led him to getting

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.

Everyone knows who Osama Bin Laden is and about his horrendous lasting impact on our country and our planet, but have you ever wondered why someone would do something so awful? Osama Bin Laden became the world’s most wanted man because of his early life education, the forming of Al Qaeda, and his attacks on the United States in 2001. Bin Laden grew up in a good, very successful home, and then moved onto one of the most prestigious high schools in Jedda and was very successful. It was through an exclusive Islamic study group with a teacher where Osama learned “the principles of violent jihad” and that the Arab world should go by those rules “even if it meant supporting death and destruction” (Osama bin laden). These extreme views may have never

Occasionally questions of "Who am I?" and "Am I a better person now compared to before?" and "What can I do to become a better person?" cross my mind as I encounter literary and movie characters that exhibit admirable and sometimes unsatisfactory qualities that compel me to reassess the person that I have become. With each story read and each movie watched in class, the characters that I acknowledged the most was Achebe's Jonathan from "Civil Peace" and Osama from the movie Osama. Because in spite of their difficult situations, Jonathan was optimistic and grateful for the things he has instead of resentful for the things he lost and Osama stepped up and took action to try to change her difficult situation. Through Jonathan, I have learned

When President Barrack Obama mentioned of the September 11th attack, for a moment the wounds left in the hearts of the Americans started bleeding again. There was nothing that could that could stop the bleeding other than one statement: “the perpetrator of the attack has been brought to justice”. On the night of 2nd May 2011, the Americans were woken up by the unusual speech delivered by the 44th president of the United States of America. The speech began by the president mentioning one of the worst terror attacks that have ever happened on the American soil. At that moment, the citizens remained silent as they listened and watched the speech. All they

History has shown many times that a single human being is capable of vast influence among people and/or a society, especially for religious purposes. Generally, when people think about influential leaders tied to a religion, they think of the great leaders that strived for peace and equality for all, such as Mahatma Gandhi. Justly, the big religious figures who were not so great for the world are often not given any credit for being the influential, strong leaders that they were, such as Osama Bin Laden. Obviously no one wants to give props to someone who negatively impacted the world but many times these evil leaders are very similar to their opposites. Morals must be disregarded to make this comparison but it is worth making. As previously mentioned, the comparison going to be made is of polar opposites; Mahatma Gandhi and Osama Bin Laden. They both greatly influenced and affected the world based on actions they took because of their religious beliefs. One practiced Ahimsa, who preached non-violence, and the other one Jihad, who fought a war with non-believers. But which of their two messages was more successful; non-violence or violence? Not successful in regards to humanity or morals, but in influence, leadership, and how long their message resonated. Both religious figures will be evaluated from their beginnings in order to see all their influences and intentions, as well as the situations they were put in that pushed them to make the moves the did.

“Malice- a desire to harm others or to see others suffer; intent, without just cause or reason, to commit an unlawful act injurious to another or others” (“malice”). Malicious characters or groups play a central role in many literary works, like the Headless Horseman in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, O’Brien in 1984, and white society in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These characters threaten, attack, trick, and persecute the main character or another central character within their story. They add to the plot and tension of the work. Another malicious character is Iago, the villain in one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Othello. In this play Iago sets out to destroy Othello for multiple reasons, most of which are