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
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World examines the world of medieval Spain or al-Andalus in which Judaic‚ Islamic‚ and Christian cultural and religious elements coexistence in a “lost” golden age: Menocal writes to shed light on this time period that models tolerance and to attempt to paint a portrait of life in Medieval Spain that can inspire future generations. Whereas tradition histories of Arabic people follow the Abbasid dynasty‚ Menocal choses to follow the Umayyad prince to al-Andalus examining the seven century presence
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history begins with its initial inception and assembly in the late eighth-early ninth century‚ continuing into its expansions of the tenth century‚ culminating in its unexpected welding of ideology in the sixteenth century. “As the premier monument of al-Andalus‚ the Cordoba mosque embodies the history of the Iberian peninsula from its Islamic takeover in 711 through successive stages of Umayyad and post-Umayyad dominion and beyond. Following the fall of Cordoba in 1236‚ the mosque was preserved as
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the Al-Qaeda. His biggest attack was in New York City when two people from the Al-Qaeda flew into the world trade center. “All of a sudden there were people screaming. I saw people jumping out of the building. Their arms were flailing. I stopped taking pictures and started crying.” Osama was born on 10‚1957 in Riyadh‚ Saudi Arabia. His father had fifty children and he was the seventh born. When he got older his parents had a divorce and he moved in with his mother. He attended Al Thagher
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should adopt a Niche Marketing strategy and target the segment that considers both the predilections of the “Will.i.ams” and the”Al Gores”; individuals who can afford to pay the premium to make a statement about being different. They are exclusive‚ they appreciate breaking-edge technology and they are environmentally responsible. Targeting Strategy: Cost considerations Al Gore Will.i.am Niche marketing suits Tesla in Singapore because of the relatively small number of car owners who can afford the
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the moment‚ information on who has been killed and how many were of people were intended targets is shrouded in secrecy. Moreover‚ according to statistics from the TBIJ children have been killed in these drone strikes yet the US claims that they are Al-Shabaab terrorists. One chilling question is‚ who decides who a terrorist is and is not? What happens when civilians are killed based on faulty meta-data? Article 4 of the Geneva Convention stipulates that an individual must satisfy certain criteria
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political history of Andalusia. • Ibn Rushd was influential in the fields of jurisprudence‚ medicine and mathematics. • He is mostly remembered for his insights into philosophy and theology. • Under the Caliphs Abu Jacob Yusuf and his son‚ Jacob Al Mansur‚ he was entrusted with several important civil offices in Morocco‚ Seville and Cordoba. However‚ he fell into disfavor and was banished with other representatives of learning. • Shortly before his death‚ the decree was cancelled‚ but by this
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a compound in Abbottabad‚ Pakistan. He was 54 years old at the time of his death. The news of Osama’s death spread like a wild fire in the entire world. It was a huge victory for the U.S. in the war against terrorism and to eradicate Al Qaeda and a huge defeat to Al Qaeda. The news created a mix reaction in the world. In the U.S.‚ crowds of young and old poured out on streets late at night chanting “USA‚ USA” while half way across the world in Pakistan‚ where Osama was killed‚ crowds were enraged
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widely accepted account that the September 11 attacks were committed solely by al-Qaeda. In a 2008 global poll of 16‚063 people in 17 countries‚ majorities in only nine countries believe al Qaeda was behind the attacks. 46% of those surveyed believed al-Qaeda was responsible for the attacks‚ 15% believed the U.S. government was responsible‚ 7% believed Israel was and another 7% believed some other perpetrator‚ other than al Qaeda‚ was responsible. The most popular of all conspiracy theories is that
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“Jihadist globalism” is Al-Qaeda’s push back on America. Al-Qaeda’s attack on 9/11 was a response to what is called Americanization. A lot of Americans seemed unaware of America’s cultural and political influence around the world. This influence is not always wanted or welcome‚ predominantly in the Islamic sections of the world. Osama bin Laden was one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda and in effect the “jihadist globalism” movement. He wrote many works that gave instructions on how to resist what Steger
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