Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

and doctrine, which is a dangerous mix because it is something that most people can collude with. The Middle East and developing countries are the ones that are greatest are risk because globalization has not fully reached them. This is the reason why Al-Qaeda “is able to do so much harm because of the secondary support and sanctuary it receives in vast areas that have not experienced the political and economic benefits of globalization”. (Cronin

The Battle of Fallujah Fallujah is a Sunni dominate city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar. With an estimated 259,000 thousand people located roughly 69 km (43 miles) west of Bagdad on the Euphrates. Fallujah is a stop on the main road across the desert west from Baghdad. Its geographic coordinates are 33o 25 '11"N and 43o 18 '45"E. The place is mostly desert, cold winters, with occasionally heavy snow, and dry, hot summers. Fallujah known as the renegade city and untamable as it has challenged

that ISIS was formed from Al Qaeda which splinted off the organization because of different beliefs due to the Iraqi Baathist regime’s defeat during Saddam Hussein’s time frame. One that thing that is understood is that Abu Musab al Zarqawi caused a conflict with extremism when he was killed in 2006 destroying years of economic sanctions creating an opening for a new group to unleash its power. ISIS took this time to upgrade after the sectarian civil war. During this time Al Qaeda was trying to exploit

Introduction In what has quickly evolved into a post-Al Qaeda era in the Middle East, a new threat has emerged from the ashes of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and later in the 2011 war in Syria. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) has rapidly become the most pressing foreign policy concern in the Middle East for the United States. In the last four years, Daesh has gathered swaths of territory in both Iraq and Syria, although it has been driven back thanks to coalition efforts to

While almost the entire Iraq war was mired in controversy, no one moment was more inundated with it than the Second Battle of Fallujah, a two month knock down drag out fight between coalition forces and radical Jihadists, it was the war’s magnum opus with urban combat rivaling what Marines faced in 1968 on the streets of Hue city Vietnam during the Tet offensive (Head, 105). While many debate the war overall the focus of this essay is on the battle itself and how the US government created the circumstances

consequences, but with multiple benefits, declaring war against ISIS can be a disastrous or a beneficial decision that the U.S can make. ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) , also known as ISIL is a terrorist group that was founded by “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999” according to a google search conducted. “The

After September 11, 2001, U.S. citizens were shocked that over 2,900 people were dead because of Islamic extremists (Kean, et al. "National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States"). More deaths occurred in the Paris and San Bernardino attacks. Tensions between the U.S. and Islamic extremists have not yet subsided. Americans receive information regarding Islamic extremists through the media, from which they form opinions on what the U.S.’s foreign policy with the Middle East should

Blind Obedience to Authority Millions of people were killed in Nazi Germany in concentration camps however, Hitler wouldn’t have been able to kill them all, nor could just a handful of people. Obedience is when society influences where/ when an individual acts in response to a direct order from another individual, who is usually the authority figure. It is assumed that without such an order the person would not have acted in this way. In order to obey authority, the obeying person has to accept

Battle of Fallujah The first battle of Fallujah, also known as Operation Vigilant Resolved, was the largest combat mission since the declaration of the end of “major hostilities”, which occurred in central Iraq. This battle was fought during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force ordered a two Battalion level task force to block all roads around the city and to conduct raids. The overall mission objective was to re-establish security in Fallujah. Historical Background:

In the horror novel, Supernatural Horror in Literature, the author, H.P. Lovecraft starts off by stating the following: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” Choosing the topic of ISIS/ISIL, which are the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria / the Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant, was an easy choice because in truth, I know very little about the terrorist groups within these Islamic States. I, along with seventy percent