Identify and critically introduce major terrorist groups in

This essay will introduce and critically identify three major terrorists network, Al Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah and the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).

Al Qaeda is a radical group established by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s, consists of groups of Arabs who fought in Afghanistan as volunteers against the Soviet invasion (http://college.hmco.com/currentconflicts). Al Qaeda’s main goal is to remove Western influence from Islamic lands through its practice of eliminating American military, cultural and political influence from predominantly Islamic countries in the Middle East and Central Asia (www.foerignaffairs.org ). The group has been responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks on America, car bomb attacks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, attack on France tanker off the coast of Yemen, explosion of a fuel tanke

The leader of JI, Abu Bakar Bashir an Indonesian cleric of Yemeni descent is accused of being JI’s speculator and operational leader (http://www.cfrterrorism.org/groups). However the US believes that Hambali is the key leadership role in the organization http://www.cfrterrorism.org/groups). Their goal is to create an idealized Islamic state comprising Indonesia, Malaysia, southern Philippines and southern Thailand (www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ji/htm).

The highly decentralized network is funded in several was, bin Laden’s family runs a large construction company has provided funds for his vast inheritance, through established companies to provide income and charities that act as fronts and protection schemes, credit-card fraud, diamond and drug money (www.terrorismanswers.com/groups/alqaeda.htm). The al Qaeda network is relatively effective due to its less de-centralized network; members are able to launch attacks themselves because the network is perfectly capable of functioning without its leader.

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