the terrorists were all linked to Osama Bin Laden‚ the leader of Al-Qaeda. Immediately after the terrorist attacks on 9/11‚ Bin Laden was placed on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list‚ for obvious reasons. Coalition forces stationed in Afghanistan have been on the heels of this man for more than six years now. Bin Laden is still on the run and is believed to be hiding in the vast mountains of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Border. In the early 1980’s Bin Laden joined the Afghan mujahideen in order to
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Unfortunately they did. After the bombing in the WTC‚ al-qaeda completed a series of attacks on both US soldiers and other groups outside the US. After being exposed for these deadly encounters‚ Bin laden is forced to leave Sudan‚ and he flees to Afghanistan. Now people are "awake" and aware of terrorism. Warnings started to go out‚ to alert people about this problem‚ especially in the US. Different areas of security reported some useful information
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Zero Dark Thirty is a movie about the manhunt for Osama bin Laden that lasted almost 10 years beginning after the September 11‚ 2001 terror attacks on the United States and finally ending on May 2‚ 2011 when Osama bin Laden was killed. The film bounces around in different locations around the Middle East and the United States as the CIA is on the hunt for bin Laden. Pakistan is the primary focus‚ however. The film takes the viewer to different locations of Black Sites. Black Sites were places of
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The Effects of Social Media Last year on May 2nd‚ 2011 I was browsing facebook when suddenly I see a flood of statuses all with the same topic. Osama Bin Laden had been killed by US troops. My friends were posting their emotions‚ feelings‚ and opinions on this news for everyone to see. My friends had reacted to this news so quickly but I was hesitant to respond. They had seemed ecstatic regarding the death of this malevolent man. Although my feelings were ambivalent‚ I had always been taught
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Osama bin Laden is the Senior Operations Chief of al-Qaeda and is advised by a Shura Council‚ which is estimated to be twenty to thirty senior leaders. Ayman al-Zawahiri is the groups Deputy Operations Chief and is bin Laden’s top lieutenant. Abu Musab al-Zarawi was the Senior Leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq but it is believed that his house was hit with missiles and
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the world at once‚ not many people see it by an outsider’s view. People‚ especially American‚ tend to condemn it only as the tragedy brought by the terrorists‚ like saying‚ “we are the victims of the tragedy‚ they are the terrorists who killed our family.” Yes‚ I think it is hard for them to think about it as an outsider because they were actually involved in that tragedy. In fact‚ about 3000 people died in the attack. But about me‚ of course‚ I feel bad to people who died in the attack‚ and I don
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since 2005‚ although its ability of mounting plausible‚ worrisome threats is not in question. Osama bin Laden’s death by no means spells the end of al
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on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon caught the United States largely by surprise. Once the dust had settled‚ and the shock and horror of such an unprecedented event had waned‚ the American public began to ask questions. Names such as Osama bin Laden‚ countries such as Afghanistan‚ and organizations such as Al-Qaeda were brought into the public’s consciousness for the first time. Through newspapers‚ talkback radio and television programs the nation asked why do they hate us so much?’ Others
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Al-Qaeda is the group responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Bin Laden initially denied involvement in the attacks but then eventually admitted that he was involved. US forces found a video tape in a destroyed house in Jalalabad. The video shows that Bin Laden was planning the attacks and that he was responsible. Nearly 10 years later‚ Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by Special Forces. Bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks and was eventually found and killed. I was
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has ties to most of all the terrorist groups in the world and is the most infamous group in the world today and that is the group called Al-Qaeda The word Al-Qaeda means “the base” in Muslim. As an international terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden. The group seeks to rid Muslim countries of western influence and replace them with fundamentalist Islamic regimes. Al-Qaeda grew out of the of the ashes of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1988‚ after it helped expel the Soviet occupation.
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