aided by the UK who helped up through the entire war. President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban hand over Bin Laden but they would not unless we could give them evidence of his involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Without anyway to prove that he was guilty of the attacks he disappeared into the middle east. Since 2001 there were always new leads of info about the whereabouts of Bin Laden but they had always come up empty. The U.S established military bases throughout Afghanistan and were in constant
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English 12 R Ms. Melon Al Qaeda 01‐16‐2014 Al Qaeda the global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama Bin Laden‚ has attacked civilian and military targets in various countries including the September 11 attack. Al Qaeda has two major strategic objectives which are to get control of a nation‐state and to get the control of weapons of mass destruction. Al Qaeda or Al Qaida is a
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tragic event occurred‚ three airplanes were hijacked‚ two out of the three crashed in the twin towers in New York. All them were hijacked by terrorists‚ the mastermind behind all this was Osama Bin Laden who was hiding in Afghanistan. Families lost loved ones over this event‚ because of this there was a man hunt of Osama. I believe that the U.S. responded inappropriately due to 9/11. The U.S responded inappropriately because they invaded Afghanistan without knowing the surroundings and by giving
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AFGHANISTAN-TALIBAN AND THEIR DOWNFALL 5. Geo-Strategic Importance of Afghanistan. Afghanistan is Central Asia’s land locked country‚ spread over an area of 253‚ 861 miles. Bordered on the North by the Republics of Tajikistan‚ Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan‚ North-East by the Chinese province of Sinkiang‚ on the South-East by Pakistan‚ and on the West by Iran. Afghanistan’s geopolitical importance has been that of a buffer state first between the Tsarist Russian and the British Indian Empires and
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Omar Larios Mr. Sullivan English 50 Essay #2 2 April 2013 Terrorism Connie Schultz author of the article New Airport Policy: Grin and Bare It‚ Schultz says “Not exactly secret agent man.” when referring to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab‚ the underwear bomber. Because she says that he isn’t exactly a secret agent‚ even though he still had the potential to be dangerous‚ rather than something more adequate for a terrorist shows that Schultz is not too concerned with terrorist threats happening domestically
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people. Also terrorists may cause harm because the difference in race‚ nationality‚ or religion. Major terrorist groups are the Palestinian Liberation Army‚ Hezbollah‚ and Al- Qaeda. Al- Qaeda is best known from being under leadership of Osama Bin Laden. Osama Bin Laden was behind the hijacking of the planes that flew into the World Trade Center on September 11‚ 2001 and also the attack on the USS Cole. Many innocent lives were taken on that horrifying day‚ people lost their mothers‚ fathers‚ sisters
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school but I understood that New York City was targeted and my life was put in danger but I did not realize that still 11 years later I would never be able to escape the thought that the attack could be repeated. The terrorist attacks committed by Osama Bin Laden on September 11‚ 2001 made America very well aware of how vulnerable it was. The immediate response was to make sure that it never happened again but the way American foreign policy was changed by Vice President Dick Cheney strengthened surveillance
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example of the “end justifies the means” effect on leadership today. The death of about 12 million people was the end that was justified in Hitlers cruel view and actions on the fact that the Aryan race was perfect and all others were inferior. Osama bin Laden was the leader of the al-qaeda group that on the morning of september 11‚ 2001‚ committed 4 suicide attacks. The 19 terrorists hijacked 4 passenger jets‚ 2 went to the twin towers in New York‚ 1 to the Pentagon‚ and 1 was thought to of been heading
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Al-Qaeda The Base"‚ "The Foundation" or "The Fundament". Is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden‚ Abdullah Azzam and several other militants at some point between August 1988 and late 1989‚ with origins traceable to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational‚ stateless army and an Islamist‚ extremist‚ wahhabi‚ jihadist group. It has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations Security Council‚ the North
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no one could imagine the horrific nightmare that would unfold that morning. The people that planned and carried out the attack were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations. Their operation was financed by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden ’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization. They were acting in retaliation for America ’s support of Israel‚ its involvement in the Persian Gulf War
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