For thirteen years, Osama Bin Laden has orchestrated many attacks on multiple nations killing many innocent lives. Over that thirteen year span, his team, Al-Qaeda, killed thousands of people. Osama Bin Laden changed our society by orchestrating several attacks, killing many innocent lives. Osama Bin Laden was an extremely dangerous terrorist. Osama wanted to do whatever it took to reach his goal.
About eight months into his first term as president Bush had to deal with one of the worst tragedies in U.S. history, the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Although many of his moves during this time of turmoil in the United States were viewed as necessary and patriotic, a few years after the attacks information surfaced that completely destroyed Bush’s image. Long before the 9/11 attacks in 2001, during the Clinton administration, intelligence was collected that connected Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin-Laden to the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. The Bush administration was warned by outgoing Clinton officials about Al-Qaeda, but information provided by Richard Clarke was the most sincere and frightening. Clarke, who remained from the Clinton
Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist group Al Queda, was killed on May 2, 2011. After being the target of a decade long international hunt, Bin Laden had been tracked to a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (History para.1)United States Navy Seals invaded the compound and shots were fired, killing Osama bin Laden. He was then flown to a disclosed area in the Arabian Sea and buried.(CNN para.4) The killing of Osama bin Laden was justifiable due to the fact that he was the mastermind behind many attacks, including September 11, and has killed countless innocent civilians in different countries.
He planned attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Bin Laden was intent on driving Western influence from the Muslim world(biography.com editors). Bin Laden wanted the Muslim world to be treated like Americans. He thought that Americans were responsible for what was happening to the Muslim world.
I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Tuesday September 11th 2001 started off like any other day. Men and women prepared themselves for another work day and school children settled in their seats for a day’s lesson. But before the mornings of people’s everyday life could begin, a tragic incident occurred, killing thousands of American citizens and breaking the hearts of many more. B. Thesis: The World Trade Center crashes were significant in many different ways to the U.S. and when they were destroyed, American citizens were stunned and heartbroken. C. Main Points: 1.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 dramatically changed the course of U.S. and World History. Nearly 3,000 people were killed from the four hijacked planes in the largest terrorist attack ever coordinated. You are in a unique position because you weren’t old enough to remember this day but you are young enough to where the outcome is still affecting your future. Do a “free-write” about what remembering 9/11 means to you. How have the events of 9/11 changed the U.S. and the world?
All though, many people would say Osama Bin Laden was more then a terrorist, he was a menace who changed the future in security and safety world. During 1988, Osama founded the now known terrorist organization called Al-Qaeda. He influenced people to fight for his cause, in which he stated was for the safety of his home. However, August 23rd,
The killing of the Al-Qaeda leader, which is a Radical Islamic Terrorist Group, founded in the 1980 's by Osama Bin Laden, was a huge justice in the U.S. and other countries. Bin Laden posed a global threat to the countries where Islam is not implemented, he was responsible for the September, 11th attacks back in 2001. He orchestrated it, and had it planned for months, he was planning more attacks on the U.S. after 9/11 as well. ("The World Trade Center History.")
When the the Persian Gulf War was going on it was obvious that Bin Laden hated americans. In this interview he said “Every Muslim the minute he can start differentiating, carries hate towards Americans, Jews and Christians, this is part of our ideology. Ever since I can recall, I felt at war with the Americans and had feelings of animosity and hate towards them,”. He became mentally sick after the Persian Gulf War which made him angry and grudgeful which made him plan 911 to kill americans( Jonathan Mahler 1).
As the leader of Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden planned many terrorist attacks on several different nations for the soul purpose of killing innocent people. For example, Bin Laden’s most infamous plot was the attack on September 11th, 2001. As a result, about three thousand innocent Americans lost their lives (Bergen 1). In addition to 9/11, Bin Laden also planned terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of people in Kenya, Indonesia, Spain, Great Britain, and on the U.S.S. Cole, a United States destroyer (Time Magazine 1). The attack on the U.S.S. Cole not only killed innocent people, but those people were American military personnel.
These attacks caused havoc on the United States of America, and even after Bin Laden’s death, scars remain. According to the article written by Shmoop Editorial Team,
After many years of waging this war, the US succeeded in tracking down and killing its leader, Osama Bin Laden in May 2011. He was, until then, the leader of the organisation. Osama Bin Laden has since been succeeded by Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, who had been al-Qaeda's Deputy Operations Chief before the death of Bin Laden. He in turn succeeded or replaced Saif al-Adel who had acted as the interim commander of the organisation (Geltzer,
The events that occurred on September, 11, 2001 were among the most catastrophic events in American history. The events of the day were summarized as 19 militants associated with the terror group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out targeted attacks in the United States. Out of the four planes, two of them were flown into the World Trade Center in New York, a third one into the Pentagon in Washington and the fourth one crashing off course into a field. The attacks resulted in the deaths of over 3000 people and the beginning of a soon to come American counter terrorism policy and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Although there are a lot of conspiracy theories around the real motives and players behind the attack,
It was the organization that claimed responsibility for the Twin Towers attack on the United States. ‘September 11, 2001, was the kind of morning when everything seemed right in the world”, (Bergen 1). He was born on March 10th, 1957 and was killed on May 2nd, 2011. Osama had many followers he had followers from the Middle East all the way to Southern Russia. He was the biggest terriost that has ever lived.
Our country had the mind-set that we were untouchable. The events of 11 September 2001 taught us many things about ourselves, others, and the world we live in. We learned who and what was important to us, what it felt like to be victimized, and how developments in other countries could threaten our homeland. We also learned what it felt like to thirst for revenge. The experience has left us with a number of unanswered questions.
