The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

English 12 R  Ms. Melon                          Al Qaeda   01‐16‐2014  Al  Qaeda  the  global  militant  Islamist  organization  founded  by  Osama  Bin Laden, has attacked civilian and military targets in various countries   including  the  September  11  attack.   Al  Qaeda  has  two  major  strategic  objectives  which  are  to  get  control  of  a  nation‐state  and  to  get  the  control of weapons of mass destruction.

In the post Osama bin Laden era al-Qaedist ideology is flourishing across the Arab world. A significant development has been the rise of al-Qaeda offshoots in the Middle East. The Abdallah Azzam Brigades franchise has increasingly become a noteworthy actor in terrorism. On May 8th, 2012 Thomas Nides, Deputy Secretary of State designated Abdallah Azzam Brigades as a foreign terrorist organization (Nides, T.R. , 2012). Abdullah Azzam Brigades may have only recently been added as a foreign terrorist group; nevertheless the organization has deep roots, lethal capacity, and is capable of contributing to supplementary instability in the Middle East.

million men in the Italian army based in Libya (Jorge 1). In neighboring Egypt, the British

Al-Qaeda, or “the Base” in Arabic, is an arrangement of extremists initially organized by Osama Bin Laden. Al-Qaeda originated throughout the uprising against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Thousands of volunteers from around the Middle East came to Afghanistan as mujahideen, warriors fighting to defend fellow Muslims. Bin Laden returned to his native Saudi Arabia after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and founded an organization to help veterans of the Afghan war, thus creating the basis of al-Qaeda. The death of Bin Laden, who was killed in a joint operation by US troops and CI operatives in May 2011, complicated the future of al-Qaeda. Some speculated that the group might seek retaliation, while others wondered if they would wallow without their supreme leader. More than a month after bin Laden’s death, al-Qaeda named Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri as their new leader. Following bin Laden’s death another powerful top ranking al-Qaeda leader, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, was killed in June. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was the leader of al-Qaeda in East Africa and was responsible for the organized US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998.

It is an Islamic group that it work is to fight regimes and people who are perceived to be enemies of Islam religion. It uses guerrilla tactics to fight civilians and governments. It targets developed states, which they accuse to use imperialism and neo-colonialism to oppress Muslim states. They also target Muslim states that are pro United States. It targets groups and Muslim elites that are secularized. It is the first extremist group to have its networks throughout the

It started out as an extension of Al-Qaida but has not morphed into its own organization. In the beginning its members came from fighters who fought against the Asad regime and some form Iraq. Now, it recruits come from the local population as well as from all over the world. These fighters get training from experienced fighter who fought against the Russians and the Americas in Afghanistan and Iraq. These fighters get raining form personal ware are experienced in combat. The Al-Nusra Front has conducted several types of terrorist attacks like suicide bombings and attack on military bases. These attack committed by the terror organization has killed approximately 100 people. The Al-Nusra Front is an organization that may not have the best communication ability but it can get message passed throughout the country of Syria. Also, the ability to communicate through computers is utilized as well. These attacks are conducted with the thought to pass the Al—Nusra Front message across and dispel western influence. Turing Syria into an Islamic State and all of the countries in the area is what the organization would like to achieve. To achieve this goal Al-Nusra Front instills fear by conducting terrorist

Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist organization that was founded in the late 1980’s by Osama bin Ladin and Abdullah Azzam. The organization is still currently active today, even though it has become largely decentralized with the deaths of many of its leaders following their attack on the twin towers in New York City, on September 11th, 2001. Al-Qaeda was founded towards the end of the Soviet Union’s attempted expansion into Afghanistan. The group was initially a secret society did not even say their name, because a Dr. Hunter told us in class if an organization becomes well known government will seek them out an destroy them before they have a chance to do something.

Libya, a north african country located in the Maghreb region, has a long history of leadership changes after de-colonization. In 1969, Muammar Gaddafi was one of these leaders who took control and integrated many harsh political decisions. Decolonization and the direct shift of leaders from Idris I to Muammar Gaddafi affected the Libyan people because of the constant corruption in his government and terrorist attacks birthed in Libya that led to international condemnation.

The Islamic State, also referred as ISIS or ISIL, where its roots can be followed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, with the financial support of Osama bin Laden and his Islamist terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, Zarqawi in 1999 formed a jihadist group, Jama’at al- Tawhid wal-Jihad (“Islamic State”). Zarqawi ruthlessly attacked civilians and destroyed religious sites in an effort to ignite a war between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims (“Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)”). Zarqawi and his successor, who started a militant group called Islamic state in Iraq (ISI), were killed. After the death of both al-Qaeda leaders, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took control over ISI, he preyed upon the religious divide between Sunnis and Shi’as to stir up mistrust and recruit more fighters to his group (“Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)”). “[Baghdadi] staged a series of suicide bombings and high-profile attacks in Iraq...he also formed another militant group, the al-Nusra Front, to battle the government forces of President Bashar al-Assad”(“Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)”). Towards the end of 2013, ISIS and ISIL began to get involved in the Syrian Civil war, and even though they are against the government, they also continue their policy of violence towards civilians and in many cases considered worse than the tyrannies inflicted by Assad’s regime and his

Al-Qaeda began carrying out missions as they were also responsible for the 1996 bombings of the Khobar Towers, whereas the 1998 attacks on US Embassies in Kenya, the 2000 assault on the USS Cole in Yemen and the Tanzania bombing and these were their signature missions. Since then al-Qaeda has merged with a number of other Islamist militant organizations, including Egypt’s

The Al-Qaeda organization was created anywhere from August 1988 to late November 1989 after the Soviet Union crossed the border into Afghanistan (McCormick, 2014). During this time Osama bin Laden and a few associates meet in Peshawar, Pakistan withdrawing forces from Afghanistan in order to help build the Al Qaeda training camp. From 1991 to 1998 Osama bin laden moved his base/training camp to Sudan where he

The beginnings of its foundation was back to the founder of ISIS Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He was a Jordanian who went to Afghanistan in 1989 to participate in the defeat of the Soviet Union. When Zarqawi returned to Jordan, he became aspired to create a caliphate and defections from Al-Qaeda. Zarqawi took advantage of the Islamist character to attract young people and increase followers. Zarqawi convinced that the killing of Shiites and stimulated a civil war between Shiites and Sunnis would restore the prestige and glory of the Islamic caliphate. Zarqawi was looked at first to get rid of the US presence in Iraq, therefore he carried out several attacks with supporting from Syria and Iran. The aim of the attack on the US forces is a attractive factor for his supporters and prove the sincerity of his intentions. He announced his rebellion against al-Qaeda after bin Laden's objection to some of his policy pursued in Iraq and that it will undermine the strength of Al-Qaeda. He announced his defection and formed the organization of so-called

But they don’t have tribes, for Libyan tribes are honorable, fighter and combatant paladin and scrapper tribes, and they are rallying around me during this month. month . All the tribes … They are all shouting the same thing. They are all confronting. We have confronted America — with its might and power. We challenged the the great nuclear states of the world and we came out victorious. They bowed their heads headspring here. Italy kissed the hand of the son of the martyr, sufferer , the sheikh of all martyrs, Omar al-Mukhtar. This is a glory beyond all glories. aura . Not just for Mnifa [Mukhtar’s tribe] … but for all Libyans, Libyan , Arabs and Muslims. Muslim . This is the victory they want to tarnish. Italy, the empire conglomerate at the time, was smashed on Libyan soil land along with its hordes. I am greater than the positions held by presidents president and notables. I am a fighter. A mujahid. A combatant. A revolutionary from the tent. mujahid . A belligerent . A revolutionary from the tent

My team and I are defending the Libyan Government in regards to the acts that happened from the early 1970’s to early 90’s.

Formed in November 2011, a Foreign Terrorist Organization was created to function under the sharia law, they are now known as