Sunday, May 13, 2018
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden is mostly known as the leader or general to one of the biggest terrorist groups of its time, the Al-Qaeda. The reasons why he is well known was because he was conneced to terrorist attacks that had happended to the United States in the early 2000's and the late 1900. One of the well known attacks on the United States that Bin Laden was part of was the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001. Even if he was not directly part of the attack he was the leader of the terrorist group that had attacked the Trade Center. Before being the Leader of the terrorist group, the Al-Qaeda, Osama was born into a family in which the fateher, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, was a Saudi billionaire from Hadhramaut. As he grew up he went on to join the Mujahideen forces. The main goal for these forces was to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. While in the Mujahideen forces he donated money and arms to the force to help them grow in strength and power. After defeating the Soviet Union and making them leave Afghanistan he and his "Holy Warriors" tried to stay and protect Pakistan and Afghanistan, but the leaders decided to seek protection from the United states. Out of his outrage of them choosing a non "holy" or origin based group to protect them he went out and started the terrorist group the Al-Qaeda. His hate towards the United States lead to the terrorist attacked on the US seaking revenge in a way.
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Another thing to mention is that the US had various opportunities to kill Bin Laden, but they did not or could not take action. If Bin Laden had been killed earlier, I wonder if 9/11 would have occurred. And I wonder what if ISIS would be different today.
ReplyDeleteOsama Bin Laden had taken various interviews where he had in several accounts openly declared his sincere considerations to wage war against the United States. However, the FBI and Americans in general did not think of this as a threat. This escalated to the point of only days before 9/11 where President Bush had received Al Qaeda's intentions to attack United State's major monuments and create havoc in order to wage their Holy War. I think it is interesting how someone can be so driven by fear to become so faithful in believing waging war and do damage upon others. Osama Bin Laden was not a single man that set out to wage war but he had years of planning with his terrorist organization and ultimately formed this plan.
ReplyDeleteEvan is right, because had America taken action sooner, who knows where we would be now? perhaps the terrorist organizations would be less popular and motivated to kill us. We did have many chances to kiss Bin laden, but the FBI also had a lot of leads and needed to choose which ones were dangerous. However, the evidence only piled on, and it became obvious he was a threat to national security
ReplyDeleteOsama bin Laden was very evil, and he only had bad intentions with his actions. He acted with the intent to hurt others and did not care about other countries, and only believed that he was right.
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