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,…
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.…
In 1980, Afghan Rebels, Mujahideens, launch a gorilla campaign against the occupying Soviet Army. By Spring 1986, Operation Cyclone enabled America to successfully provide Mujahideens with weapon and finance. By spring 1987, Osama Bin Laden, the son of a billionaire, joined the fight, which soon led to the withdrawal of the Soviet Army; immediately turning Bin Laden into a hero. Bin Laden soon forms a radical Islamic group called Al Qaeda, also known as ‘The Base’. This group consisted of men who fought alongside Bin Laden whose main goal was to spread their extreme Islamic beliefs throughout the Muslim world and to fight the jihad, ‘Holy War’, against infidels such as western civilization.…
“I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States...Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people,” (“Hard Facts Hard Truth -Bin Laden ‘Confession Tapes”). This quote is spoken by Osama Bin Laden himself the day after the September 11, 2001 attacks on both Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and attempt to reach the White House although failed and crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Osama Bin Laden then was denying all accusations of him outlining the attacks on September 11, 2001. The morning of September 11, 2001 was not just any traditional day. Americans were full terror, grief, dismal, and awe as nineteen total hijackers on American Airlines…
Osama Bin Laden was the leader of the Terrorist group Al-Qaeda, the organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. He was also born in the family Mohammed Bin Awad Bin Laden. He studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the mujahideen by funneling arms, money and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan, and gained popularity among many Arabs. He first formed Al- Qaeda in 1988. Four years later,…
Osama bin Laden had quite a difficult upbringing as a child. ‘‘The father had very dominating personality. He insisted to keep all his children in one premises. He had a tough discipline and observed all the children with strict religious and social code. He maintained a special daily program and obliged his children to follow’’. Bin Laden’s father was very strict on him as a young boy. It was said that Bin Laden’s father treated them as ‘’big men’’ and expected them to act as such. I believe this shaped the personality and man that bin Laden grew into. (Frontline; pbs.org)…
It was the Iraqi ruler- Saddam Hussein that provided the impetus (unintentionally might add) to these Islamic Jihadist forces in the Middle East.…
The Man Who Killed Millions Osama bin Laden leader of al-Qaida was responsible for many terrorist attacks on the U.S. He took the blame for many such attacks like 9/11, the bombing of a national guard training center, but such attacks were not just in America. In Egypt, there was a failed attempt of the Egyptian President. And another bombing in Saudi Arabia. The effects of these attacks put everyone on edge.…
Terrorism is not a phenomenon that emerged within recent years. Over the course of decades, the battle between many religious groups over territory in the middle east has been a constant problem. To better understand the issue between the territories we would have to do extensive research to understand what lead to the formation of current radical Islamic groups. Although these radical groups associate themselves to Islam, Muslims condemn their actions. Sayyad Qutb fervent Egyptian nationalist and anticommunist stance would become ideas for his Islamic fundamentalism. He despised westerners because of the support they had provided the Israelis. In addition, his experience in American confirmed his views of it being a scandalous, materialistic,…
Bin Laden was a just an ordinary man, at least as a teenager, pretty much before the 9/11 attacks. The founder of the notorious Al-Qaeda organization was a billionaire and a Saudi Arabian citizen. His involvement in wide attacks and bombings made him on the list on the most wanted fugitive and terrorist in American FBI.…
Al-qaeda was founded by the multi-millionaire Osama Bin Laden in the late 1980s. Osama bin Laden had not always a despicable person. He started training mujahideen, a group of Islamic Jihadist. A Jihad is Islamic fundamentalist who participates in or supports jihad, especially armed and violent confrontation. After Osama returned to Saudi Arabia he was thought to be a hero, and the US even referred to him as a “freedom fighter.” Although, that did not last forever, after several attempts to silence him, because he was disappointed in what he believed was a corrupt government, Osama Bin Laden was soon banished, then lived in exile in Sudan beginning in…
The Mujahedeen rebels were Islamic guerrilla fighters that were very diverse. Many of whom came from all over the region to fight the Soviets along with the muslim brothers . One of the fighters who came all the way from Saudi Arabia to fight with the Mujahedeen was Osama bin laden, who would be the founder of al-Qaeda in the early 1990’s , the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attack. Bin laden saw the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as an attack on his Muslim brothers. Bin Laden was a fighter himself but used his connections to win financial and moral support for the Mujahedeen . He also encouraged young Middle easterners to join [you need the word the here] Afghan Jihad. Bin Laden had an organization that recruited…
In order to fully understand the Muslim jihadist group Al-Qaeda and their position outside of mainstream Islam, one must understand where they began and who helped bring them to such prominence. This is where Osama Bin Laden, America’s most wanted man following the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers, comes to the forefront. He was credited with the founding of Al Qaeda and was often looked to as the inspirational figurehead of the organization throughout his period of leadership.…
Terrorism’s violent acts are about the message. Terrorist’s publish and issue manifestos, fatwas or declarations of war to justify and defend their violent activities and explain the purpose of their actions. (German, 2007, p. 95) Al-Qaeda is a cross between “Egyptian Islamist radicalism,” and “Arabian Peninsula Wahhabi fanaticism” (Wahhabism) and Salafism (Ryan, 2013, p. 55) Some of bin-Laden’s ideological mentors included Islamic scholars and theologians such as Ibn Taymiyya, Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and Sayyid Qutb. (Ryan, 2013, p. 19; 99; 14) Other ideological influences were Hassan al-Banna and Abul A'la Maududi. (Ryan, 2013, p. 22; 29) Many of bin-Laden’s ideologues were members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.…
In the San Bernardino, terrorist attack the married couple killed 14 people at a holiday party, and then after a shootout with the police they were killed. The media was very busy showing how this attack conforms “their preferred narrative of right-wing extremism fueling gun violence” (Continetti, 2016 P.54). In addition, how it was very possible that the Islamist ideology played a role in the killings. The killers were Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, they had worn tactical gear, while armed with multiple weapons, and leaving behind explosive devices. There was some planning to this Islamic terrorism had struck its worst blown in America since 9/11. Malik had already pledged alliance to the Islamic state, the FBI also informed that the…