Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

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    Soviet forces. His large following granted Bin Laden protection and believed that he would create a Caliphate under which Muslims could live under their own laws (Shideler, et al., 2015). The Islamic State came into existence as a result of a meeting between Osama Bin Laden and a Jordanian named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999. Zarqawi was a common criminal who had numerous run-ins with law enforcement prior to his meeting, however, after being mentored by Bin Laden, the Jordanian felt that it was his

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    Herrera Mr. 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.

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    laden leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist group became one of the most powerful, fearful and well known terrorist group in the world, to this day Citation. The Al Qaeda terrorist group is one of the wealthiest terrorist groups to date giving thousands of trained and motivated fighter’s access to deadly weapons Citation. Many of these Solders carried out vicious acts contributing in the killings of thousands. The research shown below will help explore the reasoning behind the Al Qaeda terrorist group

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    over all.” ISIS has many other beliefs, the qualifications to belong to this group can be brutal, and the present day hate is awful. This group’s roots trace back to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian who set up Jihad in 2002. A year after the United States invaded Iraq, Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden, and founded Al-Qaeda in Iraq. After Zarqawi’s death his followers created an umbrella organization ISI, or Islamic State in Iraq. In 2003 the Islamic State renamed itself to the Islamic

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    death? Summary Al Qaeda leaders and affiliates have conducted sophisticated public relations and media campaigns since the mid-1990s. Terrorism analysts believe that these campaigns have been designed to elicit psychological reactions and communicate complex political messages to a global audience as well as to specific subpopulations in the Islamic world, the United States,

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    visual culture of war. By investigating the investigation into the actions that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison and the system in place to punish such acts Williams argues that Standard Operating Procedure reframes and contextualizes these forced

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    Terrorism is defined as an unlawful use of violence. This negatively impacts civilians all across the globe. Terrorist groups are created to portray their beliefs to the world by instilling fear in people through acts of terrorism. The members of these groups aim for large numbers of people in one area to cause the maximum amount of casualties possible. There are many groups around the world that use terrorism as one of their tactics to spread their belief. One of these wicked groups is called ISIS

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    effort that includes Muslims will be needed to confront and defeat this terrorist organization. This has been done before with some success in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The Taliban were removed from power and al-Qaeda was greatly weakened in the world. This is unfortunately what led to the rise of ISIS. However, much like al-Qaeda and the Taliban were defeated, a bolder, more brutal group may rise from the ashes of ISIS. Until the real cause of this kind of terrorism, Islamic extremism

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    Australia and the United Kingdom because they all wanted to end the ruling of Saddam Hussein. Al-qaeda is another reason why the war in Iraq was started. Al-qaeda is an Islamic, militant organization, a terrorist group. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was a leader of the terrorist group of Al-qaeda. He was hiding in Iraq after the attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. Many people thought Saddam Hussein was giving al-Qaeda members a place to hide in Iraq. President George Bush received both positive and negative

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    Social Problems In Iraq

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    the profession, have given the challenge to create, design, and implement policies that addresses those social problems. One of the social problem that is on a major challenge is “ISIS”, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham. “The group claims religious authority over all Muslims and aspires to a macro state which includes many countries in the Middle East: Cyprus, Jordan, Kuwait, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, and part of Syria. ISIS is known for its uncompromising

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