from Al-Qaeda’s 2001 attacks‚ falls short of its intent to defeat transnational terrorism. While the tenets of the current counterterrorism strategy were written broadly to enable global employment‚ this template approach proved ineffective. While focusing its efforts on dismantling terrorist organizations in Afghanistan and Iraq‚ America neglected parts in Southeast Asia that provided sanctuary to Islamic terrorists. Such sanctuaries facilitated the regrouping‚ recruiting‚ and training of Al-Qaeda
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Stability in the Arabian Peninsula region has been a concern for the United States for some time now. AQAP poses a direct threat against the U.S. and U.S. interests of Stability and Security in the Arabian Peninsula. This instability and threat is why I have chosen the AQAP as the FTO to research making the next attack. The AQAP comes from the merging of the al Qaeda cells from Yemen and in Saudi Arabia. There are approximately one –two hundred members‚ with thousands
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sinners”? Both the Islamic terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and the North American based Christian terrorist group the Army of God obviously sympathize with that statement. Each organization has set personal vendettas against the United States and the policies the US has established regarding their stray from the conservative‚ traditional practices within each of their faith traditions. Through that warring‚ essentially extremist ideology‚ Al-Qaeda and the Army of God have set themselves apart from
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agencies. This working document offers an analysis of the sources of financing of the Al-Qaeda network including some of its affiliated groups. The development of Al-Qaeda’s financing has been similar to the evolution of
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Theory Al-Qaeda In 1988‚ one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in the world was formed. They call themselves al-Qaeda‚ which translates from Arabic to “The Base”‚ and originated in Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist organization and are considered the top threat to the United States of America. The biggest attack that the group has planted was the events of September 11‚ 2001. When the U.S. responded with the War on Terror in Afghanistan‚ al-Qaeda relocated
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After reading the essay by Woody Hochswender‚ “Did My Car Join Al Qaeda‚” I found that it was very persuasive because he had convincing support for his point of view. Being a SUV using a lot of gas doesn’t make him a bad person or responsible for what’s going on in Al Qaeda no more than me standing in a garage makes me a car. It is no secret that SUV’s burn a lot of gas Hochswender really applied a lot of emotional appeal (pathos) to his witting. When he started off he went straight to the heart
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Another strategic mistake of Al Qaeda related to its expansionist vision because the attempts to spread ideology through violence turned out to create more enemies to the organization. In many instances‚ their strategies have just transformed neutral countries into opponents. Those strategies were grounded for many reasons. After attacking the United State the organizations continually expanded their theater of operation to gain a greater portion of the world and “assume that most people in the
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DISCUSSION BOARD THREAD #1 “Did My Car Join Al-Qaeda?” Woody Hochswender‚ a former reporter and fashion columnist for the New York Times ; his article "Did My Car Join Al-Qaeda?" is very persuasive and he clarifies his viewpoints with awesome facts concerning the S.U.V. use and his supported argument provides a logic appeal. Hochswender shares some keen considerations concerning the utilization of S.U. V’s. in the Middle East and the rest of the global communities. Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar‚ an
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The al-Qaeda of today is a vastly different entity from the al-Qaeda formed by Osama bin Laden towards the end of the Afghan war against the Soviets in 1988 (Alexander and Swetnam‚ 2001: 37). The evolution‚ or as Burton (2006) has termed it “devolution”‚ of al-Qaeda‚ is partially linked to its terrorist acts‚ and‚ in particular‚ the counter-terrorist measures employed by governments to deal with them. This is most evident in reference to the single most expensive‚ in terms of life lost and economical
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Current State and Future of Al Qaeda United States President Barack Obama announced on May 1‚ 2011 that “Osama bin Laden‚ the mastermind of the most devastating attack on American soil in modern times and the most hunted man in the world‚ was killed in a firefight with the United States forces in Pakistan.” The death of Osama bin Laden is certainly a major blow to the Al Qaeda terrorist network causing many of its leaders to go underground. Yet‚ the threat of Al Qaeda still exists and many intelligence
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