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    Critical Analysis Essay: "On the Death of Osama Bin Laden" By Barack Obama Introduction When President Barrack Obama mentioned of the September 11th attack, for a moment the wounds left in the hearts of the Americans started bleeding again. There was nothing that could that could stop the bleeding other than one statement: “the perpetrator of the attack has been brought to justice”. On the night of 2nd May 2011, the Americans were woken up by the unusual speech delivered by the 44th president of

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    Osama Bin Laden; the mastermind of 9/11 Christian Hanke December 21, 2012 World History Period 1 Osama Bin Laden changed the world on September 11, 2012, when he orchestrated the 9/11 bombings on the World Trade Center in New York City. He has also formulated many other attacks including the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1998 (Encyclopedia of World

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    Osama Bin Laden was the most wanted man in the world, after the attacks of September 11. On September 11 2001 two planes crashed in to the Twin Tower, another plane crashed in to the pentagon, and another crashed into a field on rout to the nation’s capital, killing three thousand people mainly civilians. (Benson) Hours after the attacks the CIA and FBI stared a search to find who was responsible for the attack; with in the day they found that the terrorism group al-Qaeda was the brains behind the

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    Born into a successful family, Usama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, better known as Osama bin Laden, attended the most prestigious school in Jeddah. When he attended Al Thagher, he was recognized as an intellectual student and was invited to take part in an Islamic study. In this study he was taught “loyal observers of Islam would institute the holy word—even if it meant supporting death and destruction.” Taking what he learned, Osama bin Laden turned to Pan-Islamic ideas and formed Al-Qaeda. He

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    to make people fear. Osama Bin Laden is one of the most well-known terrorist in the world. The killing of Osama Bin Laden, which is the man behind the attacks on 9/11, was a turning point in history because he was the leader of Al-Qaeda and the sponsor of the terrorist act. Osama Bin Laden was born in Saudi, Arabia in 1957. He had between twenty and twenty-five children. Osama was born into a wealthy family under his billionaire father, Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden. He studied at university

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    I chose Osama Bin Laden as the political figure for my project because I have always wanted to see the unbiased side of his story and that’s exactly what I got from Michael Scheuer. People all over the world saw Osama has the face of terrorism. People have to look past the mass murderer, terrorist, and at times the most wanted man in the world. You have to look at him as the intelligent person that he was. Osama for two decades was allowed to rebel, conducting a private guerilla war against America

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    The War The government’s response to the September 11, 2001 events was quick and decisive. Government officials attributed responsibility for the attack to Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda organization. One result was an announced policy shift from deterrence to preemption, generally referred to as the “Bush Doctrine.” (National Security Strategy, [http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html].) Given the potential consequences of terrorist attacks employing weapons of mass destruction, government decision

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    Yemen is the original land of birth of Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden 's family were emigrating from Wadi Dawan, a valley in the Hadramaut, to Saudi Arabia in the early nineteenth century. Al –Qaeda strengthen in Yemen for many reasons, first, it incubator environment represented by the tribes, besides a number of its members involved in the Afghan war. Therefore, it became base under protection of some religious fanatics in Yemen. In 1998, Al –Qaeda killed, four out of six of the ten hostages

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    Mahatma Gandhi and Osama Bin Laden were two famous leaders who had different objectives to accomplish. Both were influential figures who were able to motivate thousands of people to act on their behalf. Both were killed either by opponents. While Mahatma Gandhi fought for freedom and civil rights and was nothing but a pacifist promoting compassion, Osama Bin Laden was a militant who wanted to implement extreme religious ideas and fought for intolerance and war. Bin Laden controlled people through

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    credit for being the influential, strong leaders that they were, such as Osama Bin Laden. Obviously no one wants to give props to someone who negatively impacted the world but many times these evil leaders are very similar to their opposites. Morals must be disregarded to make this comparison but it is worth making. As previously mentioned, the comparison going to be made is of polar opposites; Mahatma Gandhi and Osama Bin Laden. They both greatly influenced and affected the world based on actions they

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