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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.

Al Qaeda has taken responsibility for numerous attacks and attempts, including an attack that made Osama bin Laden very well known to many people in the United States. That attack occurred on September 11, 2001. Three planes were hijacked and the hijackers flew the planes into the United States territory, destroying the

Although bin Laden was an inspirational leader, Al Qaeda is a religious, separatist organization whose ideology resonates within a wide group of people in the Middle East. Bin Laden’s spiritual teachings brought in members, but he was not their prime-recruiting tool. If Al Qaeda had revolved entirely around bin Laden’s personal logic and ideals it would have collapsed with him, but because of their broad ideology Al Qaeda, has been able to stay strong.

Al Qaeda is one of the major terrorist organizations in the world, they are responsible for at least thirty attacks worldwide and three on US soil, most famously they are responsible for the attacks on September 11th 2001. Al Qaeda started in nineteen eighty-eight by the leader Osama Bin Laden, who has been the leader for both attacks in New York City. The major attack was the deadliest attack on US soil, which was the

This fanatic gathering was going by Osama Bin Laden a Saudi Arabian son of a very rich Construction tycoon. Bin Laden was conceived from his father’s tenth spouse and he was the seventh of 50 offspring to his father. At the point when the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan in 1979, Bin Laden joined the Afghan resistance, trusting it was his obligation as a Muslim to battle the occupation. He migrated to Peshawar, Afghanistan utilizing help from the United States under the CIA program Operation Cyclone. Bin Laden then started preparing a mujahideen, a gathering of Islamic jihadists. At the point when the Soviets pulled back from the nation in 1989, Bin Laden came back to Saudi Arabia as a legend, and the United States alluded to him and his officers as "Flexibility Fighters." Bin Laden talked openly against the Saudi government's dependence on American troops, trusting their nearness befouled consecrated soil. After a few endeavors to hush Bin Laden the Saudis expelled the previous war legend. Bin Laden started executing his savage arrangements, with the objective of drawing the United States into war. His trust was that Muslims, bound together by the fight, would make a solitary, genuine Islamic state. In 1996, to forward his objective, Al Qaeda exploded truck bombs against U.S. drives in Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda then asserted obligation regarding slaughtering voyagers in Egypt, and in 1998 the bombarding of the U.S. consulates in Nairobi, Kenya, and Tanzania, executing about 300 individuals. (Biography.com Editors,

Osama bin Laden founded al-Qaeda in 1988 with the goal to rid Muslims countries of western influences and replace their governments with Islamic regimes. Born in an extraordinarily wealthy family, Osama bin Laden used his family’s money to found the terroristic organization. Abdullah Yusus Azzam was an influential Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar who mentored bin Laden and persuaded him to come to Afghanistan. The main goals of al-Qaeda are to: spread Islam through the world with or without the consent of the occupants, destroy Israel and it’s affiliates, terrorize the United States of America, financially bleed the United States, and fight to defend the rights of Muslims. The organization’s numerous attacks against the United States, and all of humanity (except the Muslims) have changed the world’s perception of terrorism. There are numerous religious affiliates of al-Qaeda, some of which include, Sunni Islamism, Takfirism, and Qutbism. There are very few supporters of al-Qaeda’s beliefs and actions. Osama bin Laden issued a fatwa, a ruling point of Islamic law given by a recognized authority, which eventually amounted to a public declaration of war against the United States and its allies. There is a tremendous amount of confusion about the connections between the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Although the two have ties, they are completely separate and distinct groups who have different goals. Starting in the late 1980s, an international terrorist network, al Qaeda, changed the

Many have wondered exactly who Al Qaeda is, how they began as group. What they believe and what locations and countries are they prominent in throughout the world? It has also been pondered why Al Qaeda choose to focus their attacks on the United States, which other groups may be affiliated with Al Qaeda

The Terrorist Organization Al Qaeda is determined to end the U.S. influence in Islamic Nations. Al Qaeda and its founder Osama Bin Laden are believed to be responsible for many of the worst terrorist attacks of the 20th and 21st century Bin Laden's goal for Al Qaeda began to change during the Persian Gulf War, when he became angry at the presence of U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda continued to focus on U.S. targets throughout the 1990s, and it is suspected of being involved in the U.S. embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 and the bombing of USS Cole in Yemen in 2000.

Whenever Al-Qaeda is mentioned in the United States, terrorist attacks flush in people`s mind. The organized crime group poses a threat to this country. The history of this threat dates back to the year 1998 when Al- Qaeda pioneered the bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi (Kenya) and Dar es Salam (Tanzania). As if not enough, the group proceeded further to plan the September 11th attacks were four United States commercial airlines were hijacked and crashed in different areas within the country leading to the deaths of more than three thousand people and over six thousand casualties. Among the affected places were the twin towers that hosted the world trade center building and the United States department of defense headquarters that is also known as the Pentagon .

Al Qaeda is arguably the most well-known and most dangerous Islamic terrorist organization in the world. It was established around 1990 by a Saudi millionaire, Osama Bin Laden, to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion. The goal of the organization is to reestablish the Muslim state throughout the world. Al Qaeda works with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and remove Westerners from Muslin countries. Groups affiliated with Al Qaeda have conducted numerous bombings and other violent attacks throughout the world that have resulted in the

The group states that certain scriptures in the Quran and the Hadith speak about mass-murder, genocide, child molestation and slavery and how the holy writings justify these violent acts. The Al-Qaeda main goal is to drive out the Americans and the American influences that it has over all of the Muslim nations, the ideology for the group is referred to as " Jihadism" which means to be marked by the willingness to kill. Al-Qaeda also wants to destroy Israel and to be able to unite all Muslims and establish a force following the rules of the first Caliphs. The Caliphs is a form of a Islamic political religious leadership, the person who becomes a Caliphs is known to be a successor of the prophet Muhammad. Although Bin Laden started Al-Qaeda he did not run the organization by himself, he had a top advisor named Al-Zawahiri. Al-Zawahiri was born to an Egyptian upper class family and was a certified surgeon. Zawahiri joined the radical Islamic movement in the late 1970s, he served three years in prison for the assassination of Anwar Sadat who at the time was the 3rd President of Egypt. After his release from prison he meet Bin Laden and the two instantly became friends,

The Al-Qaeda is the deadliest terrorist group in the world responsible for the worst attacks across the globe. The group is Wahhabi organization that was founded by Osama Bin Laden alongside Abdullah Azzam and other influential militants. When Osama Bin Laden died, it was a big drawback to the group, however, was a big setback for the prominent terrorist group, it still managed to maintain its grounds and grow stronger over the years (Bergen, 2011). Al-Qaeda is responsible for the April 2007 Ashoura massacre and also contributed to the September 11th attack on American soil. Al-Qaeda has very many training grounds spread across the globe with the largest one been the Khalden training camp located in Shorabak in Pakistan that was apparently destroyed by the American military. The core lesson taught at the training camps is the interpretation of the Muslim Sharia law. The Al-Qaeda group has one mission, vision, and objective, to form global jihad to unite all Muslims across the globe (Shahzad, 2011). The Al-Qaeda group has a characteristic way of carrying its attacks via the use suicide bombers who are sent to carry out suicide missions. Al-Qaeda also owns numerous aircraft such as Boeing 727s as well as multiple executive jets.

Al Qai’da began in the 1980’s due to the war between the Russians and Afghanistan. “Al- Qaeda “The Base” was developed by Usama Bin Laden and others in the early 1980’s to support the war effort in Afghanistan against the Soviets.” (FBI.gov). Bin Laden created the group based on Syyid Qutb’s teachings that Jihad should be waged in order for the Quran to be what is followed in society. It should be noted that after victory in Afghanistan the fighters that were in “The Base” began going to countries in the Middle East spreading the jihad mantra around. With this happening rising opposition began against the U.S. and other non-Islamic governments. It is also prevalent to remember the 1988 bombings of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in which Bin Laden perpetrated.

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

453). A prime example of an Islamic Fundamentalist movement is al-Qaeda which was a new militant Islamic group when it emerged in 1988. It followed on from the spread of strong religious beliefs and codes that was common in Africa and the Middle- East (Garner, Ferdinand and Lawson, 2007, p. 150). Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, its goal when established was to spread the word of God and to make his religion to most triumphant religion of all. A main characteristic of Islamic Fundamentalism is to create a theocracy which is a regime based on religious principles (Garner, Ferdinand and Lawson, 2007, p. 150). Al-Qaeda is most known for its attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in the USA in 2001, whom they openly claimed responsibility for and motivated the USA's war on terror (Goodwin, 2007, p. 432).