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    Osama Bin Laden was the leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group. He was the man behind the 9/11 terrorist attack. He was a hard critic of the United States.He was first on the FBI’s most wanted list. Osama orchestrated two bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998. Also, he was responsible for the bombing of the USS Cole in the Port of Aden. When I saw him I screamed “May America Burn in Afghan flames” In Arabic of course. He immediately looked at me and screamed “Death to America!”. He

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    Osama Bin Laden and al Qaeda violently opposed the United States for several reasons. First, the United States was regarded as an "infidel" because it was not governed in a manner consistent with the group's interpretation of Islam. Second, the United States was viewed as providing too much help to other "infidel" governments and institutions, particularly the governments of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, the nation of Israel, and the United Nations organization, which were regarded as enemies of the group

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    Osama Bin Laden became a threat to America because of how powerful he was and he knew he had the United States in fear. Bin Laden had a full army that was skilled and had experience in war because they already fought against the Soviet Union (Spindlove & Simonsen, 2013). He was from Afghanistan therefore terrorism was nothing out of the ordinary. He had all of the resources he needed right at the tip of his fingers. Having an army already on his side and ready to fight was an advantage because they

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    released this film just on the 2012 historical events. Going back a year before the film was released in 2011, big things did happen that put some relief on America. Back in May 2011 the assassination of Osama bin Laden occurred. “ A bold cross-border raid at night by navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, who had been living comfortably in the shadow of Pakistan’s premier military academy.” (Oliver et al., 2014) Relation of how they disposed of his body, was like one of the killings of one of the families

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    November 2, 2015 pixel.gif ¬ Al Qaeda activity in the Middle East began when Osama bin Laden became concerned that Iraq would invade Saudi Arabia after its invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Iraq was governed by Baathism, which represented a secular and modernizing style of government (Lee, 2004). In contrast, Muslims maintained a culturally traditional non-secular guided government; a government supported by Osama bin Laden. However, Saudi Arabia refused his offer of assistance. In 2009, the group Jund

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    Victoria Isetts #10- Death of Osama Bin Laden On May 22, of 2011 Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan. Osama was the leader of a terrorist group called al-Qaeda. He was Islamic, and assumed responsible for orchestrating the attack on the twin towers. The US had been searching for him for nearly a decade, but he was finally found and killed by the US Navy SEALs. He was buried at sea, because that was the custom and Islamic tradition. This photo shows Osama bin Laden, before he was killed by the

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    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

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    Coffey Al-Qaeda June 21, 2016 Al-Qaeda grew from the Service Office founded in 1980 lead by the infamous Osama bin Laden. This was an office that was tasked with destroying Muslim brigade that stood in the way of the Soviets invasion of Afghanistan. However, Laden did not want to stop after this task. He began to train and recruit warriors from over 20 countries. With these fighters, Bin Laden planned to carry the holy war past Afghanistan. This lead to the creation on Al-Qaeda in 1988. The group

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    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

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    published a 7,500-word essay in which the reporter Jonathan Mahler attempts to untangle the knotty controversy surrounding the May 2011 execution of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It’s primarily pegged to a May 2015 report by the investigative journalist Seymour Hersh that purported to expose the Obama administration’s preferred narrative of bin Laden’s death as a hoax—alleging, for example, that the U.S. government discovered the al Qaeda leader’s whereabouts not by tracking one of his couriers

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