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It was led and financed by osama bin laden, a radical sunni muslim. In april 2006, abdul rahman almuhajir and abu bakr alsuri, two of alqaedas top bomb makers pdf, were killed in pakistan. Oct 16, 2014 the leader of the al qaeda is osama bin laden, a saudi, who is worth millions, but his citizenship was taken from him in 1991. Insights by the only westernbased journalist to have spent time with osama bin laden inform an account of what al qaeda is, what it wants, its capabilities, and how the west can answer its complaints and challenges, providing an incisive. In the past couple of years isis islamic state of iraq and syria or isil islamic state of iraq and the levant or simply is, has been all over the news, yet the origins of the socalled islamic state began over a quarter of a century ago.
Al qaeda took credit for the attack on two black hawk helicopters during the battle of mogadishu in somalia in 1993, as well as the world trade center bombing in new york in 1993, and a car. Atwan also possesses a clear and accessible writing style, which is always a plus. Alqaeda is believed to have been formally created toward the later years of the sovietafghan war 19791989, sometime in 1988. Osama bin laden holy warrior human bombs and the concept of martyrdom cyberjihad al qaeda in saudi arabia al qaeda in iraq the future of al qaeda accessrestricteditem. National commission on terrorist attacks upon the united states. Apr 29, 2015 yet even in its early days the group bickered with the al qaeda leadership. Middle east and africa congressional research service summary after a more than a decade and a half of combating al qaeda aq in afghanistan and pakistan. He was ubiquitous and palpable, both in a physical and a cyberspectral form, to the extent that his death took on something of the feel of an exorcism. Osama bin laden, head of al qaeda, is killed when cia paramilitaries and a navy seal team attack his compound in abbottabad, pakistan. Pdf the al qaeda reader download full pdf book download.
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