The Terrorist Organization : Al Qaeda

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 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

This paper will talk about the largest terror group called Al Qaeda. Stating the facts on when this terror group formed, their motives, and graphs on numerous innocent lives. The most notorious Islamic terrorist group is Al Qaeda. Its pioneer, Osama Bin Laden, issued a fatwa (a religious decision) in February 1998 requiring an overall Islamic sacred war to slaughter Christians and Jews. Laden's key targets seem to be U.S. property. Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group that was established by Osama Bin Laden in the late 1980s. It started as a strategic system to help Muslims in Afghanistan battling against what was then the Soviet Union amid the Afghan War. Individuals were enrolled all through the Islamic world standing Al-Qaeda's roots and connections.

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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.

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

Terrorism has been conducted throughout the world on numerous occasions. The groups that perform these actions come from multiple countries from all over the world. The United States even has some forms of terrorist groups and individuals. One of the biggest terrorist attacks was the destruction of the Twin Towers carried out by Al-Qaeda. Also recently there has been attacks in Paris and Great Britain, which were ISIS’s plan. The biggest terrorist organizations include the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and quite recently ISIS. The Taliban was founded in 1994, by Mullah Mohammed Omar, and they kill people in the name of jihad. Al-Qaeda was founded by Osama Bin Laden and also kill for jihad. Finally ISIS was founded recently hand continues to grow rapidly. They kill indiscriminately and how they see fit (Ppcorn, n.d.).

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

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 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

( “Al-Qaeda.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 19 Oct. 2017, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda.) Al-Qaeda is also the group known for causing 9-11. 9-11 was and still is one of the worst terrorist attacks ever. They killed 2,977 people on 9-11 and is possibly one of the reasons the Iraq war happened.

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 vast array of terrorist organizations that exist around the world have varying ideologies, financial assets, command structures and power. Most of the world is aware of very few of these groups and are often only able to identify organizations that have committed very destructive and deadly attacks on citizens of western nations. Nearly everyone knows about Al Qaeda, the Taliban and Hezbollah because their intentions are well publicized and they have successfully struck fear into many groups. While these organizations are important to examine when studying terrorism, it is more important that we look at all the groups that data have been collected for to find out how terrorist groups work, their power and what factors are key to their continuing existence.

The present day origins of ISIS can be traced back to the early 2000’s. In 2004, Al Qaeda 's leader, Abu Murab al-Zarqawi, formed Al Qaeda to combat coalition forces (Hashim 1). When Abu Murab al-Zarqawi was leader he created an umbrella organization known as IS. An umbrella organization is an association of people who work together to coordinate activities. In 2006, Zarqawi was killed by a “United States airstrike” and the terrorist went quiet for a while (Hashim 1). Then in 2010, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi rose to power and began rebuilding the Islamic State. Slowly the power was regained and they began conquering parts of Iraq and Syria and pushed the Iraqi Army back. In 2013, the Islamic State combined their territories

Al-Qaeda terrorist activities appear in many Islamic and non-Islamic countries. In Iraq in 2007, Al-Qaeda led more than 4500 attacks, leaving almost 18000 civilians dead or wounded.