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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 an Islamic jihadist organization which calls itself as an Islamic resistance movement around the world, while it is always marked as a network international terrorist. Its founder, leader and largest contributor is Osama Bin Laden, a billionaire construction of oil and Saudi origin, who was educated in the best universities in the U.K and collaborate with the C.I.A. Bin Laden directed the financial operation in a computer archivist called al Qaeda (literally base “data”).
Since then many members of the mujahideen extremist went association with Al Qaeda network.
(http://especiales.ya.com/alqaeda/)

In December 1978 Prince Turki Al Faycoal, director of the Saudi secret service, recruited to Bin Laden for financial trading operations the CIA in Afghanistan. The CIA invested two billion dollars to achieve the fall of the Soviet Union which at that time was waging a war in the central
Asia country. The Saudi and U.S services joined Islamic fundamentalist armed them and choose them in a jihad to fight the soviets. The actions of these extremist fighters were directed against certain governments in such diverse regions as Afghanistan. (Against the occupation of the
U.S.S.R) There is an ample document evidence on the indirect support of the U.S administration and the CIA to the Afghanistan struggle against the soviet

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