... Islamic theologian who was born to an upper middle class family in Maadi, a suburb of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Ayman's father, Mohammed al-Zawahiri came from a long dynasty of doctors and scholars. Mohammed was a military doctor as well as a professor of medicine at Cairo University. ... attacks on U.S. citizens. He is still currently wanted by the FBI and was sentenced to death by Egypt. After the United States invaded Afghanistan, al-Zawahiri's whereabouts is unknown. Authorities believe he is hiding somewhere in the tribal regions of Pakistan. After 2003, he has been releasing vid...

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... , after a US drone attack in the mountains of Pakistan's Waziristan area resulted in the death of Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, al Qaeda's second-in-command after Ayman al-Zawahri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden following his death. "It's been confirmed that al Qaeda's number two, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, was killed earlier this week in Waziristan, Pakistan," said a senior US Administration official (Hindustan Times). Following ... conducting drone missile strikes over the mountainous areas of Pakistan. These campaigns are worsening the tension between the United States and Pakistan but have resulte...

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... Islamic militants. Furthermore, the nation's largest cell phone network, SABAFON, was ordered to shut down reportedly because of violations and unpaid fines over the past few years. However, coincidentally the al-Ahmar family is a majority shareholder in SABAFON and many believe the move was tactical to pressure members of the family (Jamjoom). Many global powers, including the United States and Saudi ... to avenge Osama bin Laden's death (Sudam). Saleh's opposition believes that the president purposefully allowed Zinjibar, near a sea lane where approximately 3 million barrels of oil pa...

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... horrendous crimes by his money and recruiting tactics. Bin Ladin, as well as the rest of Al Qaida have many goals, not heard of by the general public, but the main goal they have is killing US citizens. With Al Qaida members still on the loose, bombing buildings and unannounced attacks on US people as well ... as US soldiers, as well as many links to every country in the world, can make Al Qaida a very intimating terrorist group. Usama Bin Ladin established his terrorist group, Al Qaida, in the later part of the 1980's to bring together all of his people, the Arabs, back to their ... fe...

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... involved in the Sept. 11 attack against the World Trade Center. -Are these groups nonstate-supported, state-supported, or state directed? -Identify the immediate objectives of these terrorists and explain. Al-Quaida is multi national terrorist group that was organized by Osama Bin Laden in the 1980's. The goal was to try and bring together combat seasoned Arab Veterans. Creating a guerrilla ... undeniable reality of Osama Bin Laden's hatred toward the United States "it is the duty of all Muslims to kill US citizens, either civilian or military and their allies everywhere". Al-Quaida pro...

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... bin Ladin train terrorists against the United States and other western countries. It was established around 1988 and the top members of the organization come from all over Islamic world. Al-Qaida is a network of many different fundamentalist organizations in diverse countries. Its primary ideology is the using of terrorism to attain their political goal and to overthrow western-influenced government ... . The strategic goal of the organization is the expulsion of the American presence, military and civilian, from their holy sites and the whole Gulf region. The U.S. State Department curre...

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... -language satellite TV station, nicknamed the Arab CNN whose reputation was built on its fearless coverage of the United States. The station plans to quadruple its size within the year. Al-Jazeera wants to assign correspondents to events at the White House, Pentagon and State Department. Although the ties to Bin Laden worry the security the Bush administration invited ... Al-Jazeera staffers to a Ramadan banquet at the White House. Seeing the power of the Arabic TV the Pentagon included Al-Jazeera camera teams in the hundreds of journalists permitted to accompany United States forces if ...

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Less than three weeks after an American raid resulted in the death of al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden, Islamist militants coordinated a strike against the Pakistani naval base in Karachi, where they attacked a US-supplied surveillance aircraft, fired rockets, and battled commandos sent to ... aircraft by late 2012. One of these airplanes was destroyed during the raid (Jawad). Since the attack, no one has come forward and laid claim, although the Pakistani Taliban, an al-Qaida allied network pledged to retaliate against the death of Osama bin Laden, and has laid claim to several attacks since...

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... announcement (Thompson). The war between the United States and Afghanistan began nearly a decade ago when the Taliban was stripped of its power in 2001 during a U.S. invasion for hosting al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden. After the Taliban regrouped from the initial attack just weeks after the September 11 tragedy, they fought back against the government, U.S. troops ... bring insurgents in from the cold," Hayden said (Graham-Harrison). Taliban reintegration was only possible "provided they meet the Afghan government's long-standing red lines: renounce violence, break with al Qaed...

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Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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... and managing terrorist activities? In Iraq, for instance, what helped ISIS to grow? After the defeat of Saddam Hussein regiment, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki of Iraq excluded Iraqi Sunnis from having any power in the government and favored the majority in population: the Shia. In doing so, ... with the withdrawal of American soldiers in Iraq in December of 2011 and an uprising which began in Syria in March 2011. President Bashar al-Assad reforms created and uneven economy which angered its citizens as living conditions worsened, living cost continued to rise and jobs remained scarce. ...

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Staten Island man, Farooque Ahmed, was arrested for attempting to help al Qaeda plan multiple bombings in the Washington D.C. area. Ahmed, a computer engineer from Virginia, made sketches and surveillance videos of the subway stops of the Pentagon, the Arlington Cemetery, and a nearby mall for who he believed to be al Qaeda, but was actually the FBI (Kennedy). On July 19,2010, Ahmed met a man ... who he believed to be a member of al Qaeda in a hotel room to give him a memory stick containing ... in order to kill the most people and how terrorists should pack their bombs in order to avoid sus...

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... which discussed and approved major undertakings including terrorist operations, such as the attacks on America. Both Atef and bin Laden sat on this council (Pike). Al Qaeda has been known universally since the year of its establishment, with given rights. Not only did bin Laden and his followers make an attack on ... major and a life changing event for many Americans, but the Trade Centers attack were not the first act of crime that Al Qaeda and bin Laden commited. The Al Qaeda Clan plotted to carry out terrorist operations against Israeli tourists and US. They also conducted the bombi...

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... able to receive security training from the CIA while he was fighting for the mujahideen in Afghanistan. While Osama was there he established the MAK (Maktab al-Khindimat) in order to recruit Islamic soldiers for the fight in Afghanistan. He was able to recruit Turks, Lebanese and Egyptians; he also held recruiting ... offices in Detroit and Boston in the 1980's. Then in 1988 Osama formed the al-Qaeda ("the base") terrorist group. 1989 came around and the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and this is when the Taliban came to life in Afghanistan. ... to expel the enemy (the U.S.) from the ...

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... group affects terrorism in that it has contributed to the major wars in the Syria and Iraq. It is made up of individuals who were members of the Al-Qaeda group which was a terror group that threatened the entire would. ISIS has stepped up terror activities given that it has its members even in the ... receive funding for their activities as well as receive easily the armories that they use to fight the innocent people. What is Al-Qaeda and how did it change the world history? Al-Qaeda is an organized terror group that operated majorly in the Middle East. The group was made of so many in...

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... Afghanistan, prompting the president to vow "to wage war against terrorism, not simply those who were behind the assaults on New York City and Washington."1 Since Afghanistan sanctioned al Qaeda and Afghan leaders refused to "hand over the terrorists," they became "the prime target in America's war on terrorism."2 The United States believed that by ... bringing to justice those behind the 9/11 attacks, they would show the world that terrorism, especially against the United States, would not be tolerated. Since al Qaeda had strong grievances against Americans and the Taliban protected the...

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... of invading Iraq are murky the costs are all- too- clear" (Global Exchange). ISIS (Islamic State of Syria and Iraq) is an off-shoot of Al-Qaeda and is backed by Sunni tribal and Para-military forces and militia. "In Seizing Falluja, Mosul and a string of other cities, ISIS has left ... ISIS takeover and reduce the amount of lives lost and money spent. The alternative leads to a closer relationship and connection to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and his unethical sectarian (sect) regime. President Obama has given us reasons to believe that U.S. Military support will be conditional a...

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... argued that a primary way of protecting American citizens is to restrict anyone else into our country. It is hard and almost impossible to find out exactly who has Al Qaeda links since it is a cause instead of a nationality. Therefore, the only way to protect our citizens is to close our borders to all people in ... attempt to, "root out terrorism and assure our homeland security" (Cahill, 2). For example, in December 2001, a man named Richard Reid, a British citizen with Al Qaeda ties, boarded a transatlantic flight headed for Miami with explosives in his shoes. Reid pled guilty to all ...

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... for killing dozens of people at a time and carrying out public executions, crucifixions and other acts" (CNN Library, 2014). ISIS originated from al-Qaeda, in Iraq around 2004 and it has spread throughout the Middle East. The man believed to be in charge of this intimidating association is Abu Bakr ... al-Baghdadi. Baghdadi has made an effort to keep details about his life very inconspicuous in an effort to maintain his status as leader of a ... terroristic group. As his group began to gain power and became more aggressive it emerged from al-Qaeda into The Islamic State of Iraq and Syri...

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... world. The primary goals of this war are to find and eliminate terrorists and ultimately end terrorism, with the initial targets being the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. A precise definition of terrorism has proven to be rather controversial as various government agencies and legal systems tend to have different definitions. After ... use violence and terrorism to get the attention of the media in the hopes of making their personal situations better. Osama bin Laden, founder of Al-Qaeda, felt that the land of his people was being stripped by oppressive U.S. military forces simply by occupying the...

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... years would vanish. The reasons why we should not have invaded Iraq are because there is no proof involving the Iraqi government with the Al Qaeda terrorists, we had no proof of Iraqi government having nuclear weapons, and other countries in the U.N. had major disagreements on the invasion ... September 11 attack. The first reason why we should not have invaded Iraq is because there is no proof involving the Iraqi government with the Al Qaeda terrorists. No evidence was found, no proof, but yes a pervasive idea that Saddam Hussein was in an approach or involvement in a nuclear ... , Sen...

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Formed from the ashes of Al Qaeda, an Islamic militant group, known as 'ISIS' or the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria", has risen to power in several Middle Eastern nations ... State of Iraq and Syria, more commonly known as ISIS is an Islamic jihadist group that have recently gained notoriety. ISIS was formed from former members of the terrorist group, Al Qaeda, who claimed responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. They started in 2004, and became known by the name 'ISIS' in 2013. They have only been gaining ... recognition recently because of the fact that they are winning. They are le...

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... the United States along side with its allies decided to hunt down those responsible for this aggression, and also destroy the bases and network of al-Qaeda and thus defeat terrorism in the world, installing democracy in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In the weeks following the attacks, the Bush administration ... "War on Terror." The sides of this war were the United States, Britain, NATO, Israel and the International Security Assistance Force against the 'al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Hamas and the Islamic Courts Union. In 2008, Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Stieglitz, in his book entitled "The Three ...

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Indonesia has rejected a US news report that dozens of Al-Qaeda terrorists have taken refuge in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Instead, authorities say suspected terrorist Riduan Isamuddin, alias Hambali, has fled to Pakistan, so there is no need ... have played a hand in the largely amateur explosions. Authorities in Singapore and Malaysia have linked Hambali to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terrorist network, describing him as a key point man. Also accused of being a key JI leader with alleged links to Al-Qaeda is 64-year-old Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who runs an Islamic board...

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... shouldn't go to war with Afghanistan but we should go to war with terrorist in Afghanistan. We should go to war with the terrorist in Afghanistan because they are still al-Qaida members and Osama bin Laden is probably also in Afghanistan. If we went to war with Afghanistan we would be able to flush out the other ... members and maybe Osama bin Laden. The logic appeals of going to war with the terrorist are that there are plenty of al- Qaida members in Afghanistan and the people in Afghanistan are probably scared because I know I would be to. Another appeal is that we should go to war wi...

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