Terrorism is known to employ sophisticated media campaigns as well as public relations. Extremist group’s leaders convey their instruction to an expanding membership through these means i.e., via broadcasting a complex political messages or social chat groups for recruiting like minded. This pertains to the modern global audience and even to certain sub-populations within the Islamic world, Asia, Europe and the United States (U.S.) (Ryan, 2013). Some analysts and officials believe that these messages have indications that instruct and inform operatives, which the members of these groups prepare for their new, target attacks. Bin Laden and other figures from the Al Qaeda have admitted that the public statements are crucial primary sources for any party seeking to comprehend al Qaeda’s political demands and ideologies.
These media communication have great influence. Since 2001, there were global counter terrorism operations in an attempt to limit the influence of Osama Bin Laden. However, other Al Qaeda affiliates and leaders proceeded to release statements, which were key to providing encouragement and guidance
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became a reality imprinting Bin Laden and Al Qaeda into history forever. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on the attacks that took place in Washington and in New York with pride for displaying the weakness of the American infidels. The goal of these attacks was to retaliate against the U.S. invasion into the Islamic world, and to show to the world the emergence of an opposing Muslim force. This assaults purpose was defined in their goals of opposing the Zionist-Anglo-Saxon-protestant coalition (Hoffman, 2003). Al Qaeda blamed the coalition for several notable political and social ills to the Islamic world. The final motive of Bin Laden and Al Qaeda was to goad the U.S. into taking action and strike against the Islamic countries and lending credence to their broadcasted ideology of the U.S. as infidels suppressing