Impacts Of Osama Bin Laden On Al-Qaeda

What are impacts of Osama Bin Laden on Al-Qaeda

1. Introduction Osama Bin Laden was an extremist terrorist who planned to attack the World Trade Center and intended on driving Western influence from the Muslim world. Bin Laden had been on the FBI’s most-wanted list for more than a decade before he was killed. (ZERNIKE, K. & T. KAUFMAN, M., 2011) The formation of Al Qaeda was created in 1988 by Bin Laden. Al Qaeda’s goals were to drive the US armed forces out of Saudi Arabia and Somalia violently and to engage in jihadist cause around the world. The group advanced and began to attack worldwide under Bin Laden’s leadership. By using the help of Al Qaeda, Bin Laden had successfully executed in several countries included the 9/11 attacks in

Al-Qaeda is the most powerful Jihad Organization, which was the participant in the Global War on Terrorism, the Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Syrian Civil War, and Arab spring. We’ve already known that Osama Bin Laden was the most dangerous man and most wanted man in FBI’s list more than a decade and he also the most intelligent man either. First, he was a strong ideologue which meant he used his ideology widespread in order to get people attention to join his organization especially for the Jihad who never give up or surrender that kind of people that made Osama Bin Laden want them to join the organization. For example in the late 1989 after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan then he tried to put his ideology skill through the king of Kuwait in term of protecting the whole state from the potentially Iraq forces. He suggested the king by writing the letter in detail about how to protect the country and he also compromised the king by using mujahedeen to defend the kingdom. This is how he used his ideology by helping Iraq fought Kuwait in order to collapse the Kuwait from his heart. Al Qaeda lost Osama Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda could not find a potential leader like he was. And another point, he is the source of funding. Analysts claim that al-Qaida of Osama Bin Laden received most of its funding from individual wealthy donors living in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United

Al-Qaeda's getting weaker, and terrorism is getting worse. There are many reasons to support this idea. (Graeme Green, 2013) First, when the enemy just killed their leader they were getting scared and it even affected the feeling of Ayman who is new leader of Al-Qaeda. Another the point is that Bin Laden taught his terrorists about the practical skills like bomb-making and worked together with foreign fighter to against the Soviets, so when Al-Qaeda became weaker, most of the terrorists went back home, and they created their own group with those skills and experiences. In addition, Ayman did not want to kill many people, so he told the group like ISIL to kill fewer people, but they refused, and this bloodthirstiness got ISIL (ISIS). Analyst sum up that, the death of Bin Laden was a big effect on Ayman Al-Zawahiri that he was shocked of it that caused him to lead Al-Qaeda to inactive and kill fewer