Al Qaeda

Osama Bin Laden's bio

Osama Bin Laden was born in the year of 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to a Syrian mother. Bin Laden was the seventh child of about 50 children of Saudi Arabia's wealthy families. His father named Mohammed Awad Bin Laden was a very poor laborer to end up owner as the biggest construction company. Bin Laden, the father was appointed some time in his life as the minister of public works because of his support to the king. Although he was a strict serious father Mohammad Bin Laden was said to be a very generous, humble, and devoted muslim in his life. Osama lost his father when he was just 13 and he married a relative at the age of 17. Bin Laden attended a university called King Abdul Aziz, in which he received a degree in public administration in Jeddah. Around 1979 when the Soviet invaded the Afghanistan region Bin Laden became part of the Afghan resistance. After the soviet withdrew in 1989 Bin Laden went back home as a hero, but was shortly disappointed by his corrupted family and government. When he discovered the presence of U.S troops during the Persian Gulf war he rejected this idea. In 1986 Osama decided to have his own camps in Afghanistan and two years later he had built more then six camps.

source; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/bio.html
http://www.biography.com/articles/Osama-bin-Laden-37172

The history of the Bin Laden Family

what are Al Qaeda's strengths and weaknesses?

Many may be curious whether or not Al Qaeda has weaknesses, well this organization does. We will first talk about Al Qaeda's strengths which are pretty plain and simple. The image is clear like water Al Qaeda's message to the world is that "islam is under attack' in every prospective either religiously, economically, or militarily. This message is believed by many because it is partly true to some eyes. The western world is controlled by the United States, so they justify Al Qaeda's actions in this matter blaming the United States. Another strength of Al Qaeda is that it is the most feared terrorist organization in the world. This favors Al Qaeda because many young people believe that being a Jihadi, meaning that they are related to a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels. Since this terrorist group is open to anybody, not caring about their ethnicity or nationality anybody is able to join. A major weakness is the killing of civilians, were it is never justified. Another weakness is politics. Politics is a major weakness because Al Qaeda is unwilling to prepare to a transition to politics. Its only appeal is the continuation of violence, which is very bad because its allies will soon seek for a negotiable political solution with their enemies. It is also believed that some time in the world Al Qaeda will loose its attraction towards people and its extremist ideologies will fade.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE55I22Z20090619?pageNumber=1
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3366118&page=1

President Bush Announcing Invasion of Iraq

history of Al Qaeda continued.

On February 22, 1998 Osama called attack on American citizens, which in my opinion I believe most of terrorized many people. After the announcement made by Osama on October 12, 2000 two suicide bombers who were suspected to be involved with Osama attacked the Navy destroyer killing 17 sailers. On June 19, 2001 Osama released a taped message in which many believe that the World Trade Center attacks were triggered. By august 2001 Osama threatened an attack on the U.S and as we all may know he was speaking with the truth. On the unforgettable day that all us Americans will alway have in our memory, the World Trade Center, Pennsylvania, and Washington were attacked by hijacked planes of suicide bombers that were part of Al Qaeda. after two years one of the master minds of the September 11 attacks was arrested on March 1, 2003, his name was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. On march 2003 the United States attacked Iraq, a few days later president George W. Bush declared major combat in iraq.

http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/oldnews3/alqaeda.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/13/history.alqaida

brief history of Al Qaeda

1989 was when this world wide terrorist network began. Osama Bin Laden founded a international group named Al Qaeda, this name had a meaning which was the "base". It is formed primarily of Mujahedeen, which meant holy warriors. by 1993 Bin Laden had planted bases of militant training camps in Sudan, and thats when he began his search for nuclear weapons. In feb 26 1993 was Al Qaeda's first attack against the United States of America when a 500K.G bomb exploded under the World Trade Center. After the bomb on the World Trade Center Al Qaeda attacked UN troops in Somalia killing 18 US service men on October 8, 1993. After that on June 26,1995 Al Qaeda tried to assassinate Egyptian president in Ethiopia. When 2 bombs kills 5 Americans in a US-Saudi military facility on November 13, 1995 Bin Laden is blamed for the attack. In 1996 Osama Bin Laden was expelled from Sudan, so Al Qaeda is moved to Afghanistan. On June 25, 1996 Bin Laden followers bomb a U.S military base killing 19 American soldiers.

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