This paper utilizes Osama ((Usama)) Bin Laden (UBL) to explain the effectiveness of “psychology of defeat” and how it was implemented by terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda. At 13 years old UBL’s father, a Yemen billionaire, died leaving him an $80 million dollar trust fund. Throughout UBL’s early life he felt ostracized by his family enhancing his frustration of his lack of social status. Being overshadowed by his brother’s, especially elder half-brother Salim, Osama eagerly looked for a purpose in life. Circa 1973 UBL lived a much westernized lifestyle in Beirut going to night clubs, drinking and often embroiled in shouting matches resulting in the occasional fist fight. At 24 years old UBL graduated from King Abdul-Aziz University,…
Osama Bin Laden was a terrorist, who was in hiding for 10 years in Pakistan. Osama lead several terrorist attacks including 9/11. Several lives were lost in this incident. Osama Bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in either 1957 or 1958, people did not know when he was born. He was the 17th of the 52 children born to his father, Mohammed Bin Laden.…
Osama Bin Laden was held accountable for a lot of deadly acts of terrorism. Also, terrorism is illegal in any country. Bin was apart terrorist group called “Al – Qaida “. In 1988 Bin Laden created a new group called “Al – Qaida“ (“the base “) that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism instead of military campaigns. They first time “Al – Qaida “attacked was on a Hotel in Aden, Yemen. That hotel held American troops. These American troops were innocent; this shows Osama’s hate for Americans.…
Osama Bin Laden’s life started on March 10, 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Osama’s life started out great. He was very wealthy and privileged growing up. He was also a demure boy while he was young. Bin Laden was tall for his age and had an athletic physique. Osama befriended Abdul Aziz, a lifelong friend, on a trip into the desert. He also was befriended and influenced by Abdullah Azzam, who influenced his beliefs later in life, when he was in school. While he was young, Bin Laden spent as much time as he could with his father. Although he was close with his father, Osama was sent to live with his mother in Tabuk. Osama wasn’t happy in Tabuk, so he asked to move back to Jidda. Even though his request was granted, Osama still wasn’t happy in…
However, more than a dozen nationals from these countries have shown up repeatedly in terror attacks from coast-to-coast including San Bernadino, Boston, Orlando, and New York. Osama bin Laden was a Saudi citizen, and his top deputies, including the current leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were Egyptian.…
Bin Laden studied at the University in Saudi Arabia until 1979, when he became apart of Mujahideen. Being born into a wealthy family allowed him contribute to the force. His funds went to smuggling arms, money, and…
Grendel and Bin Laden differed because Grendel actually carried out his attack himself. However, Laden provided the blueprint for the attack for others to perform. Laden’s attackers were trained pilots with one goal; their intention was to successfully fly the designated passenger aircraft into its target. On the other hand, Grendel was powerful enough to kill the innocents with his own hands. Also, the location of where Laden and Grendel lived was in two separate, hellish worlds. Laden occupied a compound in Pakistan while Grendel lived in a hell-like layer of the Earth. Furthermore, Grendel was a fictional satanic character while Laden was a realistic monster. Although, Grendel’s reign of terror would be horrific in the real world, it never happened. Conversely, Bin Laden and his attackers actually enacted their attacks on innocent civilians of the United States. Despite the various tactics used by these terroristic individuals, numerous deaths were caused realistically and…
Osama bin Laden is a well-known member of the islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. Osama and al-Qaeda are known because of their devastating attacks on September 11, 2001. Their was a total of 4 planes that were hijacked on September 11. Two planes flew into the World Trade center collapsing the Twin Towers. Both planes having enough jet fuel to go from New York to China. Afterward a third plane hijacked and purposely crashed into the Pentagon. A fourth plane was later hijacked but the passengers over took the plane and crashed it into a field in pennsylvania. Over $100 billion costed for America after the attacks. Almost 3,000 died that day and will…
‘‘Osama, barely came to know his father before his parents divorced. After his family split, Osama's mother took him to live with her new husband, Muhammad al-Attas. The couple had four children together, and Osama spent most of his childhood living with his step-siblings, and was attending school at Al Thagher Model a school that at the time that was the most prestigious high school in Jeddah. His biological father had went on to marry two more times, that was until his death in a charter plane crash in September 1967.’’ At the age of 14 many believed that osama bin laden was seen as an outstanding, smart, and very shy little boy at Al Thagher a school really smart and intelligent kids like osama bin laden. And what made this true or what gives that statement about him being smart and intelligent was that osama bin laden had received a personal…
The rejection on one side and turning to the west for protection on the other shocks Bin Laden as he would describe it as "one of the hardest moments of my life". Angered, humiliated, and feeling betrayed by his Saudi patrons, he leaves for Sudan in 1992 and from there begins his war against the infidels…
Bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1975. He was the 17th of 52 children born to Mohammed Bin Laden who owned the largest construction company in Saudi Kingdom. Bin Laden’s father was extremely strict. Enforcing rules that all of his children should live under one roof, follow all of the principles of religion, and be treated as men when they were children (the boys). However Osama didn’t get to know his father that well because his parents…
The 2010s had plans to revive America by fixing the economy and making it a safer place to live. On May 2nd, 2011, Osama Bin Laden the leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda was killed. He was pursued for ten years by the United States and coalition forces during a raid led by the U.S. Navy Seal Team 6 on his hideout location in Pakistan. President Barack Obama has another significant victory on November 6th, 2012 with 332 electoral votes to 206, for his second term in office against Mitt Romney. Obama finalizes his proposal of healthcare. His idea of Obamacare was meant to be a very Affordable Care Act. Obamacare goes into full effect for millions of Americans. Over 7.3 million join the system. Prices increase while minimum wage stays the…
bin Laden’s mother and father were distant because of Hamida’s (Osama bin Laden’s mother) independant personality.Mohammed (bin Laden’s father) had many other wives and they made Hamida the outcast and called her al-Abeda (the slave). This did not help bin Laden’s status in the house, because after the other children heard his mother’s nickname, they came up with one for him, and they started to call him Ibn al-Abeda which meant (son of the slave). His mother, Hamida, was soon sent to a home for Mohammed’s ex-wives. The only attachment bin Laden had to anyone in the family home, was to Mohammed’s first wife, al-Khalifa. Young bin Laden became a shy, introverted boy.(Biography Osama bin laden A&E Alex Woolf). When bin Laden’s father died everything changed, now he and his mother after a couple of months in Tabuk, returned home to Jidda, but there were more unhappy years. In 1988, Osama bin Laden founded Al-Qaida, and what started all of…
In order to fully understand the true significance of the death of Osama Bin Laden, one must understand who he was and what he did. Osama Bin Laden was born in 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was the seventh of fifty children. He was briefly raised by a strict father, who ordered his children to become self sufficient adults at a young age. He would also enforce very stern religious rules, that kept each of his children devoutly practicing the muslim religion. Osama’s mother soon divorced from his father, causing Osama to move far away from his dad. He grew up to be a very smart and wise person. When the soviets…
Joe Jumper was a normal everyday person like most adults. He would get up from bed and get ready for the day by showering and eating. Then he would drive off to Walmart where he worked as a cash register. But something was different about Joe everyone noticed that he carried around a bag and when asked what was inside he would never tell. So that being people thought he was weird and he was kind of an outcast.…