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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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    The Ottoman Empire and Islamic Terrorism Florida International University By Melinda Persaud November 7, 2014 Introduction What is known today as modern-day Turkey, was once one of the most powerful empires in the world. They referred to this imperial state as the Ottoman Empire. The Purpose of the empire was to gain land , and spread their Islamic teachings. With this they had created a thirteenth century empire led by Osman, the founder of the Ottoman Empire. Osman surrounded

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    Should the United States get involved in the Middle East? President Obama stated in his Anti-Terror Strategy address, "We continue to face a terrorist threat. We cannot erase every trace of evil from the world, and small groups of killers have the capacity to do great harm. That was the case before 9/11, and that remains true today” (Obama).The Middle East today is composed of very complicated religious tensions, unstable states, and rising terrorist organizations. The collapse of central governments

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    Trade Center towers in New York City, one into the Pentagon, and the other crashed into a field in southern Pennsylvania. These terrorist who hijacked these planes and caused the loss of thousands of lives were part of Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist group, al-Qaeda. Due to this horrific tragedy, Americans became emotionally scarred and were scared of the world around them. Osama became one of the most wanted men alive, and Americans wanted justice. For ten years we waited for the answer that he was caught

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    The terrorists’ attacks on September 11, 2001 centered on New York City was a devastation that affected the United States as Al-Qaeda wanted to instill fear in the mass public, and also send a message simultaneously to their counterparts that they were not to be taken lightly. Since then, it has never been forgotten and was one of the worst tragedies to occur in recent history. In an otherwise positive note, Osama Bin Laden has since been killed and his death has directly caused a morale decrease

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    against noncombatants, to achieve political ends through intimidation” (“Terrorism” par. 1). Though terrorism was occurring before September 11th, 2001, that is when it became real for Americans. The attacks on 9/11 by a terrorist organization known as Al Qaeda included attempts to cripple the U.S. economically, politically, and militarily. They did this by flying commercial airlines into the World Trade Center (Twin Towers), the White House, and the Pentagon. The only part of this operation that failed

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    The terrorist organization I chose is Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda translates into, “The Base, The Foundation or The Fundament". This terrorist organization was established in 1988 and is still going on to the present day. This is one of the most active and dangerous terrorist groups out there today. Al Qaeda is worldwide but they are mainly located in the Middle East. Al Qaeda is worldwide, but they now have control in Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. In the Af-Pak region there are 300-3,000 members in the organization

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    Luis Carrasco Jess Lerma English 1A December 11, 2015 Daesh: A Global Enemy The world is at war. You ask with who? Terrorism, to be more specific though they are called The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They have a few other names as well, The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Daesh. I will choose to call them Daesh in this piece because these terrorists find it insulting. The reason for this is that Daesh an acronym for ISIS in Arabic. This acronym though sounds exactly

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    The speech I am analyzing was given by Barrack Obama, the president of the United States at West Point on Troop increase in Afghanistan. The speech was delivered on first December 2008 in Eisenhower Hall in West Point Military Academy in New York. The speech was delivered to the corps of the United States, to the Americans and to the women and men of American armed forces. The speech by Barrack Obama was about Americans’ effort in Afghanistan that is the nature of Americans’ commitment in Afghanistan

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    served time in Camp Bucca, including the man who would become the group 's leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi. Over the course of the past several years, it is likely that various parties that would later consolidate into ISIS participated in the insurgencies against the United States. However, for a considerable period of time, it would seem that it was somewhat difficult to mark a meaningful difference between Al-Qaeda proper, the precursors of ISIS, and the Ba 'athists loyal to Saddam Hussein. From an

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