War on Terror: Al-Qaeda in Siria

targets. On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda successfully accomplished its most devastating attack against the United States, killing nearly 3,000 civilians. On May 2, 2011, Al Qaeda’s leader, Osama Bin Laden, was assassinated; however, the terrorist network still exists. Two days after his death, Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri was elected as the new and current leader of Al-Qaeda. The network of terrorist is powerful and still growing in the amount of their supporters. Al Qaeda is a global threat because of their large quantity of global supporters, financial position, and access to weapons and

The creator of this group was Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. and Osama Bin Laden had different opinions on who had more power and a better religion (Cassidy Frieling). The main reason on why Al-Qaeda did this attack was because of disapproval of America’s relationship with Israel (Olivia Pelaez). The reason behind this is because Israel and the United States are the closest because the U.S. supports them with military and financial assistance (Kyrie Dozer). Also, they wanted America to be the same religion as them which is Islamic (Kyrie Dozer). To sum it up, the reason why Al-Qaeda attacked the U.S. was because our relationship with Israel and our different viewpoints of

Qutb’s radical affiliation with this group as well as his Islamist perspectives parallel another one of Osama bin Laden’s major influences, Taqi al-Din Ibn Tammiyah.      

The leader of this group was called Osama bin laden.Suprisingly enough it took usa 10 years to finally catch him after the 9\11 attacks. He was then sentenced to death and killed.

If not for a tip from the Muslim community to the FBI, this group had the means to wage war on US soil. Because the group was willing to identify with the ideology put forth by middle eastern extremism they were able to gain the focus and direction need to realize their end result. In a statement by Dina Temple-Raston,counter terrorism correspondent for NPR "U.S. Counter terrorism officials have become adept at spotting terrorism suspects who travel overseas to get training or arrange large money transfers to support terrorist groups,". NPR’s Greg

Al-Qaeda was formed because the group was meant to help repeal foreign influences in the Middle East. When The United states of America had attacked Iraq and had entered Saudi Arabia, Bin laden thought America was involved and he had felt backstabbed by the Saudi Arabia Government. The United

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,

Al Qaeda, the organization that the United States is in a constant, never ending battle with, the organization that has made the most impact and changed the United States forever. Al Qaeda is always making headlines with their terrorist attacks, the most known attack September 11th, 2001. This essay is about the terrorist group Al Qaeda, its history and background, Osama bin Laden, their well-known leader, and the major attacks on America.

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

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.

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

This group was created in 1978 and continues to expand its power today. It began as a branch of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. This terrorist group has several goals ranging from creating a Islamic state to continuing the armed struggle against Israeli occupation of Palestine territories. Their acts of

The European colonialism, and the British, greatly helped the rise of Islam. The European colonialism gave them the strength to rise against their oppressors. The Wahhabi movement was started as a result of the European colonialism. The British helped groups of Islam by giving them weapons as well as the financial support that they needed as well as aiding them in setting up a central form of government. Muhammad Iqbal called for a bold reinterpretation of Islam that would take the best of Western ideas, but recast them according to Islamic principles and values. He wanted to reconstruct the religious thought in Islam so that it would be more significant in the modern world. On the other hand, Osama bin Laden pushed his ideas on the people of Islam and used great force. He created a group called Al Qaeda, whose purpose was to drive the U.S. out of Arabia, overthrow the Saudi government, liberate Islam’s holy sites, and support revolutionary groups around the world. Osama bin Laden was among the founders who issued a fatwa that states that it is the duty of all Muslims to kill U.S. citizens and their allies.

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).