Essays Tagged: "Qaeda"
Paper on the Al Qaeda Terrorist Organization
After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda surpassed the IRA and the PLO as the world's most well-known terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda, ... n. Al-Qaeda, or "the base" in Arabic, is the network of extremists organized by Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaeda has its origins in the uprising against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Thousands of vol ... rabia. Bin Laden also studied with radical Islamic thinkers and may have already been organizing al-Qaeda when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. Bin Laden was outraged when the government allowed U.S. troo ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
Describe and Evaluate the political ideology of contemporary al-Qaeda.
1. IntroductionThis essay aims to describe and evaluate the political ideology of contemporary al Qaeda. This will be achieved by providing a history of al Qaeda, as well as a brief explanation of t ... ganizational structure of the group. There will be reference made to the goals and objectives of al Qaeda, and the names and positions of key figures within the group. The essay will then explain the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
September 11, 2001 Commission Report
he 9/11 Commission Report, the CIA has no information on the origins of the funds that supported al Qaeda. However, they have a general idea of how al Qaeda financed itself during the period leading u ... self during the period leading up to 9/11. The overall cost of funding the terrorist attack cost al Qaeda somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000, which is a very small amount of money when compared t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
A confronting exploration into the real causes of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
al causes of the 2003 invasion of Iraq(40730506)����Iraqi links with al QaedaWhen the National Security Council met at Camp David on September 15, 2001, the now disgraced h ... orld that America had to act to prevent "the day of horror."�On the basis that one of the al Qaeda members involved in the 1993 World Trade Centre attacks, Abdul Rahman Yasin, was an Iraqi resi ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
Terrorism- A Cause and Effect? Deals with motives of September 11, 2001 attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, looking at history of Al-Qaeda and terrorist development since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1970s.
Terrorism- A Cause and Effect?On September 11th, 2001, Two 747 Jet airliners hijacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Simultaneo ... tragic, and launched the United States into years of war on terrorism and on Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, his Islamic militant group. But where did Bin Laden's motivations come from? What drove Al-Qa ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts