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Osama Bin Laden Research Paper

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In a time when George Bush and Al Gore were forced by the Supreme Court to end the recount in Florida and later, President Bush would call for a War on Terror, America was becoming more defensive both internally and internationally. It is in this context that a young man named Osama bin Laden was studying in Saudi Arabia and not behaving as morally as one may have hoped, drinking and partying. If Osama bin Laden were to die due to alcohol poisoning in his adolescence in 1976, al-Qaeda would not be formed. Four significant effects of Osama bin Laden’s death in the 70s would be bin Laden’s family denouncing and putting money towards advertising against the United States, bin Laden’s future colleague forming an Islamic extremist group without …show more content…

His family rose to power and affluence during the twentieth century due to connections with the royal family of Saudi Arabia Osama bin Laden's father's construction business while bin Laden was younger. After college, bin Laden formed the Islamic extremist group, al-Qaeda, with a number of men who had the same ideals as him about the politics and the economy in Saudi Arabia and the Arabian peninsula and he used his family's money to help fund said group and their training. This made Osama bin Laden the “face” of al-Qaeda and the most well-known leader. After the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, 2,996 people were killed and the United States government's price tag increased rapidly and the moral of the American people declined. Al-Qaeda and its terror attacks have shaken America economically, socially, and politically and changed how Americans see Middle Eastern religions and led to mass numbers of hate crimes against Muslims and Muslim …show more content…

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 &

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