The Islamic State‚ also widely known as ISIS‚ ISIL and Daʿesh‚ originated as Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad in 1999. This group was the forerunner of Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn—commonly known as al-Qaeda in Iraq —a group formed by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi in 2004 which took part in the Iraqi insurgency against American-led forces and their Iraqi allies following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the 2003–2011 Iraq War‚ it joined other Sunni insurgent groups to form the Mujahideen Shura
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remembered for his tenure as the commander of JSOC and utilizing the command to its maximum potential during OEF and OIF. Two of his major achievements during command include the capture of Sadam Huessein and the operation which lead to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the leader of Al Qaida in Iraq. The end of his career saw a controversial fall from grace; after assuming command of US Forces in Afghanistan (USFORA) he was cited in a Rolling Stone article for criticizing the Obama Administration’s
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Malaysia Contemporary Art Art as Idea A view from Jalaini Abu Hassan Introduction In this discussion‚ we will discuss on how the art act as an idea in Malaysia contemporary art scoop and Jalaini Abu Hassan is one of the Malaysia leading contemporary artist will be the panel for this session. Jai has been known for his aggressive and rough‚ energetic painting and Malay identical can always be found in his paintings. We also look at Jai ’s Beijing case study which lead him to produce
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Even though ISIS was formally formed in 2013‚ the article explains the path before that - the idea started from a known violent figure‚ Abu Musab al-Zarqawi‚ who initially set-up a camp for training terrorists and also met Osama bin Laden in 1999. He chose not to join al-Qaeda and wanted to start his own group‚ and after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003‚ he set-up the predecessor of what
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My report is on Abu Ja’far Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi. He was born around 780 BC in Baghdad. (Now in Iraq). There is little known about his life. The name al-Khwarizmi may indicate that he was from south of the Aral Sea in central Asia. He constructed some of the oldest works on arithmetic and algebra. His works was a significant source for mathematical insight for centuries to come in both the east and west. Al-Khwarizmi and his colleagues‚ the Banu Musa‚ were scholars at The House of
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University Prepared for: PBA-500 Survey of Public Administration Abstract The subsequent case study‚ prepared by James P. Pfiffner‚ Torture and Public Policy‚ (2010) analyzes the torture and abuse of war prisoners by United States military personnel in Abu Ghraib‚ Iraq‚ and Guantanamo Bay‚ Cuba‚ following photographs of the abuse spread around the world in the fall of 2003. Pfiffner points out that the United States Military‚ Secretary of State Donald Rumsfield‚ and President George W. Bush assumed a
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saying that Guantanamo broke the rules of the Geneva Convention. Media blackout on Guantanamo lasted for several years until this law suit and then the whole world media attention was turned towards the truth about Guantanamo bay. The third example is Abu Ghuraib
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Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam‚ 2004. The article tries to explain why people become torturers‚ that evil is inside of humanity. This paper exposes that evil is inside all of us. The article refers to the Abu Ghraib prison‚ the controversial experiment of Zimbardo and the Nazis. However‚ Abu Ghraib is the central event in the article. The guards tortured and humiliated the Iraqis. In order to analyse this article‚ the rhetorical pentagram would be an obvious method. Stephen Reicher and Alex
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Reflection #7 Ghost of Abu Ghraib Filmmaker Rory Kennedy takes us thru a firsthand accord of Abu-Ghraib‚ a prison where Saddam Hussein housed his prisoners but during the Iraqi war U.S soldiers took hold of this prison using it as their own prison for suspected terrorist and people they believed to be aiding terrorist. However what went on behind the walls of this prison was nothing less than admiral behavior‚ on the part of the soldiers. Prisoners were abused‚ humiliated and treated as if
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In the beginning of the documentary it showed an experiment that was conducted in 1961‚ by a psychologist from Yale University named Dr. Stanley Milgram. The purpose of this “obedience study” was to observe an individual’s willingness to inflict pain when ordered to do so. The participants were required to use a machine to shock other person in a different room. What the participants did not know that the shocks were fake and the victim was an actor. Despite the fact that the participants knew that
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