Osama Bin Laden Accomplishments

Terrorist organizations all start from an individual or group of people sharing a vision of something they wish to see done within their country or in the world. The terrorist organization al-Qaeda started when a man name Osama bin Laden wanted to start something to better the lives of the Muslim community in the middle east. Osama bin Laden was a freedom fighter and helped the fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. After the Afghans fought off the attack bin Laden went on to start-up his Jihad organization al-Qaeda. This helped fuel the radical Islamic followers to continue their violent crusade in the middle east and to help push their agendas. The main reason that bin Laden was able to do all this is that he knew how to tap into

He used this power of manipulation to tap into the psychology of defeat that the Muslims were feeling because they felt they were weaker than people of other religion. This emotion that he tapped into is what caused people to be so radicalized that they went and committed the horrible crimes on the United States on September 11, 2001. These accomplishments and skills that bin Laden has are those of a man who is educated and intelligent in drawing emotions out of people. The communication skills combined with the knowledge bin Laden learn attending the university is what helped him bring people to follow him. Osama bin Laden used the connections he made in the Afghan-Soviet war to combine his powers into one single entity which became known as al-Qaeda (adl.org, 2013). He used his education skills to run al-Qaeda like how someone would run a business. al-Qaeda was ran with a strict hierarchy and rules that were put in to be followed. He had his organization separated into different wings and structures with people reporting up and down a chain of command. This organization had a bookkeeping system where they would have every single item that was

Bin Laden ran a very successful conglomerate like terrorist organization with multiple layers of hierarchy. This system proved to be very successful for him for a long time until he had to go into hiding and eventually was killed. In the wake of Osama bin Laden's death al-Qaeda has still not disbanded and is still running but has been overshadowed by ISIS. Baghdadi may run a different form of recruiting and public image, but being that he was a former al-Qaeda member he took a lot of the structure learned from bin Laden and adopted it into his own organization. Osama bin Laden’s message and way of structuring a terrorist organization like a well ran business with various levels of hierarchy is something that could be seen in future terrorist organizations and it is essential that law enforcement receives proper education and training in order to dismantle