citizens that they were potential targets for a terrorist group joined by the now infamous Osama bin Laden (Eland‚ 1998). However‚ many did not think any terrorist would be capable of the tragedy that leveled the World Trade Center and took many thousands of human lives. Americans thought they could not be touched‚ especially on their own turf. While it may be that organizations involved with Bin Laden that are in the United States‚ and have been for years‚ there are other groups that U.S. citizens
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Qaeda’s Osama Bin Laden orchestrated slaughter of innocent men as well as women‚ children‚ the elderly‚ and the ill was even condemned by fellow jihadist’s including the co-founder of al Qaeda‚ Dr Fadl. Dr Fadl claims the attacks on September 11th were immoral and goes on to blame Osama Bin Laden for “every drop of blood” spilled in Afghanistan and Iraq (Islamopediaonline.org). Although it is necessary to bring justice to terrorists and terrorist organizations such as Osama Bin Laden and al
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dedicated their lives to serve our country. Although Osama Bin Laden is dead threats still exist from the Taliban and the remaining al Qaeda forces; however‚ many Americans feel it is time to leave Afghanistan because the majority of the objectives of the war are complete. The Afghanistan government took a hands-off stance to preventing Taliban occupation. The Taliban and al Qaeda recruited young Muslim men and women to join their cause. Osama Bin Laden‚ head of al Qaeda‚ who “symbolized evil” (Carter
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¨The September 11 attacks were precipitated in a large part because Osama bin Laden‚ the leader of the militant Islamic organization al-Qaeda Held native beliefs about the United States in the run-up to the attacks¨(The Plot). A little under 3‚000 people were killed during 9/11. Everyone woke up normally getting ready for work or school‚ no one would have thought this would have been the worst terrorist attack in US history. People were surprised on how they planned all of the attacks and people
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agreed-upon definition does not exist for the extremist organization‚ run by Osama bin Laden and responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks‚ but rather a multitude of beliefs on the number‚ strength‚ and whereabouts of Al-Qaeda. Most researchers and historians point to August 11th‚ 1988 as the origin of Al-Qaeda as an organized group. However‚ it was the events leading up to this meeting that caused Osama bin Laden and a small group of extremist leaders to officially organize what had grown
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a violent protest. Also‚ on September 11th‚ 2001‚ a man named Osama bin Laden planned an attack on the Twin Towers in New York and many other monuments in the United States of America. After planning for years‚ the attackers simultaneously hijacked four large
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University of Phoenix CJA/300 William Barnes December 8‚ 2005 Abstract Al Qaeda is arguably the most well-known and most dangerous Islamic terrorist organization in the world. It was established around 1990 by a Saudi millionaire‚ Osama Bin Laden‚ to bring together Arabs who fought in Afghanistan against the Soviet invasion. The goal of the organization is to reestablish the Muslim state throughout the world. Al Qaeda works with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes it
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as assassination to incite widespread fear and invoke an uprising. It is easy to say that the most well-known and effective terrorist attack took place on the eleventh of September 2001 when terrorists under the Al Qaeda terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden hijacked and flew four planes into the world trade centre. The destruction of this symbol of democracy and freedom shook the entire world and put the problem of terrorism into the spotlight. Within less than a month‚ a US led coalition invaded
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The recovery after the terrorist attack 9/11 and the role of government in the US economy Outline I. Introduction Throughout history every society has faced the fundamental economic problem of deciding what to produce‚ and for whom‚ in a world of limited resources. In the 20th century‚ two competing economic systems‚ broadly speaking‚ have provided very different answers: command economies directed by a centralized government‚ and market economies based on private enterprise. A market
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In the past years‚ terrorism has increased quite gradually‚ in both attacks and fatalities. Source 2 shows a graph comparing the number of Jihadist attacks Pre British and American invasion to post invasion stats. The pre invasion statistics shows that there were just 25 worldwide whereas post invasion there was a drastic increase in attacks to 200 per year. Source 20 shows the number of terrorist attack incidents and fatalities from the 1st of October 1998 through to the 8th of November 2006. From
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