How Did Osama Bin Laden Influence Communication

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Osama Bin Laden
Influence and communication
Osama Bin Laden was known to the world as the terror leader who reached out and touched the western civilization with his attacks on the twin towers in New York city. Bin Laden was first influenced himself, before becoming influential to followers all across the Middle East, with his ideas of Jihad. Followers were influenced by Osama Bin Laden the leader of the terror group “Al-Qaeda,” which became popular prior to the 9/11 attacks. Even after the attacks on 9/11 Bin Laden’s influence was steadily climbing in numbers of followers. As influence was still existent more than ever, so was Osama’s popularity. Prior to 9/11, Osama had various forms of communication that he found to be effective with his colleagues and followers. On another note, communication took on different types of forms, that enabled for Bin Laden to be able to communicate effectively with his organization.
Influence Prior to 9/11
Bin Laden was influenced early on while attending college in the late 70’s, where he …show more content…

bin Laden became one of the most influential terror leaders ever, but first he was influenced by Muhammad Azzam (Ross, 2015). The terror organization Al Qaeda which was built by Osama himself influenced followers to commit acts of jihad Gunaratna, 2011). Bin Laden continued to rise in the number of followers to his belief system well after the 9/11 attacks (Ross, 2015). Osama showed that he could follow through on a target effectively so far away, and his influence even though in hiding was ever so famous amongst followers (Lawrence, 2011). Prior to 9/11, Osama proved that he could effectively communicate with his aides and followers on a regular basis (Lawrence, 2011). Lastly, while Osama was hiding out and on the run, all those years he used various forms of communication, but eventually he ran out of luck and was