progress of the al Qaeda plot. Across the government‚ there were failures of imagination‚ policy‚ capabilities‚ and management” (“The 9/11 Commission Report Executive Review” 14). In understanding this quote we have to take what they said about the three failures into dept‚ looking first at the failure of imagination‚ which the book calls the most important failure of the United States government. This failure being defined by how the leaders did not understand the magnitude of threat al Qaeda and Bin
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cultural exchange and diplomatic efforts (Ferguson 17-18). This attack took a lot of thinking and planning from multiple terrorists who were willing to give up their own life for killing many others‚ Many of these terrorists were linked back to the group Al Qaeda which translates to “the base.” All of these terrorists however remained under the power of their leader Osama Bin Laden. The first of the two attacks on the U.S Embassies was referred to as the Nairobi Attack. Nairobi is the capital of Kenya
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counterterrorism’s best interest. Firstly‚ Audrey discuss the strategic defeat of al Qaeda‚ where she mentions the fact that drone strikes might not be the most efficient way to defeat the 25-year old organization. For instance‚ she explains how they’ve only succeeded killing about 50-100 al Qaeda members with 350 drone strikes. She also mentions that in previous similar cases the most effective way of intruding a terrorist group‚ such as al Qaeda‚ has been to capture their leader and in that way finding out their
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place on the eleventh of September 2001 when terrorists under the Al Qaeda terrorist group led by Osama Bin Laden hijacked and flew four planes into the world trade centre. The destruction of this symbol of democracy and freedom shook the entire world and put the problem of terrorism into the spotlight. Within less than a month‚ a US led coalition invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to weed out and eradicate the terrorist threat of Al Qaeda and send a message to other terrorist groups worldwide. Security
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Southeast Asia has been a base for terrorist operations. Al Qaeda penetrated the region by establishing local cells‚ training Southeast Asians in its camps in Afghanistan‚ and by financing and cooperating with indigenous radical Islamist groups. Indonesia and the southern Philippines have been particularly vulnerable to penetration by Islamic terrorist groups. Members of one indigenous network‚ Jemaah Islamiyah (JI)‚ which has had extensive ties to Al Qaeda‚ helped two of the September 11‚ 2001 hijackers
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SWOT Analysis of Bank Al-Falah Here we have applied this very useful technique to identifythe strengths‚ weaknesses‚ opportunities and threats ofBank Al-Falah. Strengths Strengths Strong Financial Position Strong Financial Position As we can see in the financial statements of the bank‚ the financial position of the organization is very sound and its profitability is in increasing. The Earning per sharehas been increased on a rate of about 50%‚ which is a verypositive sign. Highly Qualified
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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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