Nadene Goldfoot
Osama bin Laden—Osama bin Laden, as the founder and leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, was the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, (9/11) attacks. The attacks were the culmination of years of anti-American rhetoric and violence, which he justified with a range of political and religious grievances.
Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate. Its membership is mostly composed of Arabs but also includes people from other ethnic groups.
He was also known as Usama bin Laden—was a violent terrorist and mass murderer who used bombings and bloodshed to advance his extremist goals. Born in 1957 in Saudi Arabia, 6'6 to 6'4, 160 lbs,
After founding the terrorist organization al Qaeda, he engineered a series of attacks in multiple countries that killed thousands of men, women, and children, often ordinary citizens just going about their daily lives.
Four of the 9/11 hijackers, Mohamed Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Ziad Jarrah, and Hani Hanjour, received flight training in the United States, taking lessons at various flight schools including Huffman Aviation in Florida. Other hijackers, such as Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, also took flight lessons in the U.S., with their training sometimes beginning with English-language classes.
- Separation: After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, bin Laden and Azzam's ideologies diverged. In 1988, bin Laden established al-Qaeda ("the Base") as a separate organization, with the goal of expanding jihadist operations to other parts of the world. Other founding members included Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian scholar, and Muhammad Atef, an Egyptian jihadist.
- Hamas: A Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant and political organization that controls the Gaza Strip, supplied from Iran.
- Hezbollah: An Iran-backed Lebanese Shia militia and political party that operates along Israel's northern border.
- Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ): Another Iran-backed Palestinian militant group that launches attacks from Gaza.
- ISIS-Sinai Province: A regional affiliate of the Islamic State (ISIS) that has posed a threat to Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
- Houthis of Yemen: supplied by Iran as others are, also.
- Other smaller militant factions: Israel also combats various other militant groups in the West Bank and Gaza.
- The Middle-Easterners were not concerned with Israel during this period
- They could find other faults to kill for. Al-Qaeda wanted to spread their way
- 1: Arabian Peninsula (Yemen and Saudi Arabia):
- 2: North and West Africa (the Maghreb and Sahel):
- 3. Horn of Africa (Somalia):
- 4. South Asia (Afghanistan and Indian Subcontinent):
- 5. Syria and Iraq:
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