... to the CIA intervening, the Islamic world did not have, "an armed jihad for nearly a century." The CIA changed this by creating an Afghan jihad. The CIA even made Bin Laden the leader of this jihad. In United States camps, future jihadists were taught how to deal with explosives, ... and were taught, "deadly skills." Mamdani goes on to talk about a Los Angeles Times report that shows leaders of terrorist attacks after the Afghan War were actually veterans themselves. This of course includes Bin Laden, the leader of the jihad chosen by the United States just a short time before. In ... g...

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... PDPA, and the Soviets that backed the Democratic Party. The war lasted roughly ten years, killing tons of soldiers on both sides, and tons of Afghan civilians. Then on February 15, 1989 after much pressure from the U.S. and the United Nations, the Soviet Union pulled its last troops out of Afghanistan ... They did this under the impression that the PDPA would still be the government, but they would have to make it more suitable for the Afghan people.4 Soon after the Soviets left Afghanistan, the PDPA collapsed leaving a vacancy for leadership in the country causing more fighting in Afgh...

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... Abdul-Aziz University, both in Jeddah." It is possible to summarize some of the explanations on the causes of the 9/11 attacks. Radicalization resulting from the Afghan Jihad is a major concern. Following the Afghan war with the Soviet Union, the radicalization of Arab militants began. This led to the founding of Al Qaeda in 1988. This aimed to establish jihad in ... to believe that their kind of jihad was meant to protect Islam. Selective reading and interpretation of the Quran coupled this. In his book, Bernard Lewis argues that after the Afghan-USSR war, problems in the Middle East w...

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... of terrorists (Shahar 1). In other words bin Laden uses his money that he inherited from his dad to train, house, and protect young Muslim radicals. He funds terrorist acts from Afghan hideouts (Hosenball 52). He is teaching them how Allah, the Muslim God, called for the total destruction of Christians and Jews and that anyone opposing the Islam religion is the ... , Jerusalem, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, etc. - for young Muslims to come and help fight for the Islam religion. Osama paid for their transportation, and set up facilities to train them. The Afghan government loved it when Osama broug...

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... readers why maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and cultivating virtue will assist people. On the other hand, there are examples of justice given in "The Runway Trolley" and "Afghan Brothers" topic. In "The Runway Trolley" topic, the author argues about the right thing to do in different perspectives. What would you do if you were the ... ). I believe that is a strong statement. This statement gives strength to the whole book by mentioning that doing the right thing is not always easy, which is very true. In "Afghan Brothers", if the soldiers had not let the goatherds leave, 16 soldi...

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... US has resumed humanitarian aid food shipments to Afghanistan to help the millions of starving Afghans, and also to help show that the US efforts are not directed against the Afghan people. The long anticipated military response from the United States came on October 7th. American and British forces, in a powerful display, launched cruise missiles and long-range bombers against Afghanistan ... opened the route to Uzbekistan and bolstered the morale of Anti-Taliban forces, which were in pursuit of the retreating Taliban. By the 13th, Northern Alliance forces had taken the Afghan capital ...

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... source of corruption for men who they are not related to. However, they can also be the demise of a man's downfall and that is one of the reasons why an Afghan woman is not allowed to show any part of her body. Not even her eyes. They treat women poorly and think of them as weak, frail beings and therefore cannot ... ...

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... up a new government, we will in turn gain the support and blessing of those people to have reign over this pipleine. This taken from a conspiiracy theorist website "So the Third Afghan War obviously isn't about fighting terrorism - leading cynics to conclude that it must be about (yawwwwwwn!) oil. Bush and Cheney were both former oil company execs, after all, and National ... ...

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... is gone. Show respect the Islamic faith, but not the Taliban and their doctrine of hatred. Rebuild and feed the masses. Get them on our side. Aside from the initial Afghan response to our tanks rolling in, I'm afraid this plan doesn't allow for much sizzle on CNN or Fox News, so it may not be acceptable. Nevertheless, it does have an ... ...

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... . 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 ... ...

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