The main leader of Al Qaeda is Ayman al Zawahiri, who was born in 1951 in Cairo. He comes from an Egyptian middle class family. Even though he was trained to be a doctor, during his teens he became extremely involved in Islamist groups. He decided to join the Islamic Jihad in 1973. At this time, the Jihad aimed at overthrowing the government in Egypt. He was accused and imprisoned in 1981 for having something to do with the assasination of Anwar al Sadat, the president of Egypt. He went to Pakistan in 1985 to assist in the fight against Soviet troops fighting in Afghanistan. He decided to join Osama bin Laden in 1998 and became one of the most important spokespersons for al Qaeda’s ideaology during the 2000s. When bin Laden was killed
Al Qaeda was founded in 1988 by the most wanted terrorist in America, Osama Bin Laden, to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet Invasion. Al Qaeda works with allied Islamic extremist groups to take over regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and remove Westerners from Muslin countries. The organization first began with three members and now there are approximately 200 to 1,000 current members. Al-Qaeda began to construct and offer training camps and guesthouses to its recruits; while they also attempted to pull in U.S. citizens for financial, communication, and operation reasons for the benefit of Al-Qaeda and its other affiliations. By 1990 Al-Qaeda was providing military and intelligence training in various areas including Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Sudan.
In response to growing Western influence in the Middle East, Osama bin Laden formed al-Qaeda, a global militant Sunni Islamist Organization, in 1988. The terrorist activities of this group resulted in the creation of America's Operation Neptune Spear which successfully led to his capture and death in 2011. Osama bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 to Mohammed bin Laden and Hamida Ghanem. His father was a Saudi millionaire, however, his mother was only a slave to the bin Laden family when Osama was born. In 1962, Saudi Arabia banned all forms of slavery, enabling Osama to become more part of the bin Laden family. In addition, as more U.S. troops began to occupy countries in the Middle East, extremists like bin Laden were infuriated and declared a jihad, or holy war, on the United States. After al-Qaeda was formed and initiated a number of terror attacks against Americans, including the 9/11 acts, the United States launched an operation to eliminate their number one enemy (PBS, 1).
E- Despite following Islamic religion, he formed Al Qaeda. He’d reward money to those that helped, and punish those that didn’t. The one that was a transactional leader, Osama Bin Laden could influence anyone with his cunning words.
He was the 17th of 52 children born to Mohammed bin Laden, a Yemeni immigrant who owned the largest construction company in the Saudi kingdom ( History.com Staff ). Osama lived a privileged, and carefree youth. His siblings were educated in the West and would later go and become employees at his father's company. Osama bin Laden chose rather to stay close to home. He went to school in Jeddah, decided to married young and, alike all if not most Saudi men, Osama decided to join the pact of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. In 1988, bin Laden created a new group of anti-american semites called al Qaida, that would focus on acts of terrorism instead of trying to start military campaigns. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, bin Laden saw this as a golden option so he returned to Saudi Arabia to step up fundraising for this new and more complicated project. After al Qaeda started to really blossom, Osama decided it was time to better protect himself and his family from arrest, or death, and win even more recruits to al Qaeda's mission, bin Laden moved from Sudan to Afghanistan in 1996. During the movement of bin Laden, the scale of al Qaeda's attacks continued to increase. Osama and his forces began to ramp up their attacks. Now bin Laden was conducting large scale raids, attacks, and incersions, such as the attacks on two United States Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam,
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
Bin Laden was on the FBI’s most wanted list for 10 years until the SEAL aided by the CIA captured him on May 2, 2011 in Abbottabad . Osama was one of the main founders of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda that targeted not only American citizens, but also anyone who stood in the way of what their beliefs were and what they thought to be their mission on Earth. Al-Qaeda was formed in 1988. Bin Laden formed the Al-Qaeda network whose job was to carry out global strikes against Western interests (Osama Bin Laden Biography). He is believed to have orchestrated at least a dozen attacks, some were successful,while others ,were not. Among the worst of these were two truck bombings, in which more than 200 people were killed , both happened on August 7, 1998, of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (Osama Bin
Bin Laden was the leader of the Al Qaeda group who focused “on symbolic acts of terrorism instead of military campaigns” (Osama bin Laden).The Al Qaeda group were the terrorists who directly targeted the Twin Towers and these orders were put in place by no other than Osama bin laden. Bin Laden became public enemy #1, after the attack on the trade center he went into hiding for ten years and started “issuing fatwas and taunts over radio and television, recruiting enthusiastic young jihadis to his cause and plotting new attacks” (Osama bin Laden). The US spent these ten years constantly searching for bin laden in fears that he would attempt to attack the US once more. Osama bin Laden organized the attacks on The World Trade Center and he continued to be a threat to the
In 1988 bin Laden founded one of the world’s most infamous terrorist groups, al-Qaeda (the Base). Al-Qaeda's purpose was to encourage muslims to join jihad and perform acts of terrorism and violence, especially towards western countries. The following year bin Laden returned to his home in Saudi Arabia to collect donations for his new group and to help with his father's construction company. The Saudi Arabian government had been notified of bin Laden’s plan to collect donations, so the confiscated his passport, forcing him to stay in Saudi
Al-Qaeda activities in terrorist plots can be traced back to almost 23 years ago, one of their first attack was in 1993 when a associate of Bin Laden named, Ramzi Yousef was charged and found guilty of orchestrating a bombing, that took place in the parking garage of The World Trade Center. It left six people dead and over 1042 injured, Ramzi was sentenced to life in prison without any possibility of parole. In 1995 seven people are killed when two bombs detonate at a U.S- Saudi military base, Bin Laden terrorist group is blamed for the attack. In the summer of 1996 Bin Laden's followers bomb another U.S military base in Saudi Arabia, leaving 19 American soldiers killed and many other wounded. Fast forward to the summer of 1998, a bombs explodes
He became the leader of the organization the Taliban. The Taliban was rooted in a strict version of Islamic Law that basically made the guidelines for being what the Taliban interpreted as a “good Muslim” enforced by the law. Things that were options, such as men growing beards and attending religious services regularly and women not working outside of the home were responsibilities the new regime endowed on the people. In the Taliban’s quest to impose Islamic law, they attracted Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida to the cause.
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
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
There are several terrorist groups throughout the world today. All the terrorist groups have one common goal and that is to rid the world of Americans and western influence from the Muslim world. There is one organization that has ties to most of all the terrorist groups in the world and is the most infamous group in the world today and that is the group called Al-Qaeda The word Al-Qaeda means “the base” in Muslim. As an international terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden. The group seeks to rid Muslim countries of western influence and replace them with fundamentalist Islamic regimes. Al-Qaeda grew out of the of the ashes of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1988, after it helped expel the Soviet
Al Qaeda is the international terrorist group responsible for these two attacks. The mastermind behind the attacks was named Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. He was recruited by Osama Bin Laden who was a Saudi millionaire. Osama was the leader that funded and supported Al Qaeda. For
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.