globally and changed the course of the near future.[1] On the morning of September 11th‚ 2001 President Bush was taking his daily jog near his residence meanwhile a meeting was being held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington where Shafig bin Laden was also attending. A short time later at 8:13 am the American Airline flight 11 got hijacked by the five Al Qaeda agents. While President Bush was on his way to an elementary school the north tower of the World Trade Center had been hit by flight
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concluded the terrorists were all linked to Osama Bin Laden‚ the leader of Al-Qaeda. Immediately after the terrorist attacks on 9/11‚ Bin Laden was placed on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list‚ for obvious reasons. Coalition forces stationed in Afghanistan have been on the heels of this man for more than six years now. Bin Laden is still on the run and is believed to be hiding in the vast mountains of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Border. In the early 1980’s Bin Laden joined the Afghan mujahideen in order
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Zero Dark Thirty is a movie about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden that lasted almost 10 years beginning after the September 11‚ 2001 terror attacks on the United States and finally ending on May 2‚ 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed. The film bounces around in different locations around the Middle East and the United States as the CIA is on the hunt for bin Laden. Pakistan is the primary focus‚ however. The film takes the viewer to different locations of Black Sites. Black Sites were places of
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war on terrorism and on Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda‚ his Islamic militant group. But where did Bin Laden’s motivations come from? What drove Al-Qaeda to commit such atrocities? To find this answer‚ all one needs to do is look back into history. Al-Qaeda’s roots first began in 1979‚ when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Osama Bin Laden‚ the man in charge‚ went to Afghanistan and began to organize mujahideen to fight against the Soviets. During this time‚ Bin Laden learned many things that
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2009. Print. Ruschmann‚ Paul. The War on Terror. New York: Chelsea House‚ 2008. Print. McIntyre‚ Doug. Terrorism ’s Effects On Wall Street. Investopedia. 26 Feb. 2009. Web. 7 Nov. 2013. Varma‚ Subodh. "Osama Dead: It Took US 10 Yrs‚ $1.3tn to Kill Osama Bin Laden and Avenge 9/11 Politics/Nation]." The Economic Times (Online)May 04 2011. ProQuest. Web. 8 Nov. 2013 . The terrorist attack planned by Al Qaeda terrorists caused
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does not mean a little suspicion has to lead to death or cruelty. In addition‚ there were a lot of conspiracies stating Osama Bin Laden was not guilty but just because he had committed many crimes prior to 9/11‚ he was hypothesised to be cuprit. “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” affirmed by the FBI’S Chief when asked about why not listing 9/11 as for one of the crime he is wanted for(Griffin)
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Osama bin Laden is the Senior Operations Chief of al-Qaeda and is advised by a Shura Council‚ which is estimated to be twenty to thirty senior leaders. Ayman al-Zawahiri is the groups Deputy Operations Chief and is bin Laden’s top lieutenant. Abu Musab al-Zarawi was the Senior Leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq but it is believed that his house was hit with missiles
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The Current State and Future of Al Qaeda United States President Barack Obama announced on May 1‚ 2011 that “Osama bin Laden‚ the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world‚ was killed in a firefight with the United States forces in Pakistan.” The death of Osama bin Laden is certainly a major blow to the Al Qaeda terrorist network causing many of its leaders to go underground. Yet‚ the threat of Al Qaeda still exists and many
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West since 2005‚ although its ability of mounting plausible‚ worrisome threats is not in question. Osama bin Laden’s death by no means spells the end of al
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has ties to most of all the terrorist groups in the world and is the most infamous group in the world today and that is the group called Al-Qaeda The word Al-Qaeda means “the base” in Muslim. As an international terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden. The group seeks to rid Muslim countries of western influence and replace them with fundamentalist Islamic regimes. Al-Qaeda grew out of the of the ashes of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1988‚ after it helped expel the Soviet occupation
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