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Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Intelligence officials believe bin Laden was responsible for many deadly acts of terrorism, including the bombings of the U. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania As much of the nation was just starting the day on the morning of September 11, , 19 terrorists hijacked four East Coast flights, crashing three of the airplanes into targets in New York and Washington, D.
While under immense time pressure to vacate the premises before Pakistani military arrived, they quickly swept up a treasure trove In the universe of historic photographs, few are more iconic this this image of key White House policymakers watching and waiting for confirmation that SEAL Team Six had succeeded in capturing or killing Osama bin Laden.
Throughout the s, small dedicated teams of intelligence analysts and FBI agents toiled in obscurity, as al Qaeda and its On May 2, , U.
The entire operation, which lasted only 40 minutes from start to finish, was the culmination of years of calculated planning The United States launched the war in Afghanistan following the September 11, terrorist attacks.
Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan from to , Sudan from to , Afghanistan again from to , and was forced into exile after the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom into Afghanistan on October 7, Al Qaeda seeks to overthrow the current world order and replace it with a fundamentalist Islamic order characterized by a unified Muslim world under the leadership of one Muslim Caliph. Accordingly, it has set several goals.
First, it seeks to topple what it considers to be the morally bankrupt and heretical regimes of the Middle East. Al Qaeda chastises these regimes for not properly implementing Islamic law, or shari'a. The organization's top target is Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam's two holiest sites, which bin Laden lambastes for allowing U.
Second, Al Qaeda sees the United States as the foremost enemy of Islam for what it perceives to be oppressive foreign policy. Yet Zawahiri cannot openly oppose sectarianism: it is too popular, and with the sectarian slaughter in the Syrian civil war, too many in the Muslim world find it compelling. Ostensibly in response to intervention by the United States and others in the conflict, Western civilians in the region including journalists and humanitarian aid workers have also become targets—though the Islamic State saw them as hostile before the U.
And now that American military advisers are on the ground in Iraq supporting the Iraqi military, the U. Al Qaeda has long used a mix of strategies to achieve its objectives. In addition, Al Qaeda supports insurgents in the Islamic world to fight against U.
The Islamic State embraces some of these goals, but even where there is agreement in principle, its approach is quite different. Part of this is inspirational: by creating an Islamic state, it electrifies many Muslims who then embrace the group. And part of it is basic strategy: by controlling territory it can build an army, and by using its army it can control more territory. Cole in the port of Aden in , and plots like the attempt to down over 10 transatlantic flights all show an emphasis on the spectacular.
At the same time, Al Qaeda has backed an array of lesser terrorist attacks on Western, Jewish, and other enemy targets; trained insurgents; and otherwise tried to build guerrilla armies. Yet although Al Qaeda has repeatedly called for attacks against Westerners, and especially Americans, it has refrained from killing Westerners when it suited its purposes. Al Qaeda often takes a similar approach to Western aid workers operating in its midst: on at least two occasions, senior leaders of the Al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra implored the Islamic State to release Western aid workers the Islamic State had captured and were threatening to execute.
The Islamic State evolved out of the civil wars in Iraq and Syria, and its tactics reflect this context. Terrorism, in this context, is part of revolutionary war: it is used to undermine morale in the army and police, force a sectarian backlash, or otherwise create dynamics that help conquest on the ground.
But it is an adjunct to a more conventional struggle. Al Qaeda, in contrast, favors a more gentle approach. A decade ago Zawahiri chastised the Iraqi jihadists for their brutality, correctly believing this would turn the population against them and alienate the broader Muslim community, and he has raised this issue in the current conflict as well.
Al Qaeda and the Islamic State both profess to lead the jihadist cause throughout the Muslim world. The Islamic State is playing this game too, and wherever there is a call to jihad, there is a rivalry.
Although attention is focused on the Islamic State, Al Qaeda affiliates have done well in recent months. The Islamic State has gained support from a number of important jihadist groups. In March, Islamic State supporters in Yemen bombed Houthi mosques, playing on the sectarian war narrative that the Islamic State has long emphasized and Al Qaeda has long sought to suppress—indeed, AQAP immediately issued a statement publicly disavowing any involvement in the mosque bombings.
It is difficult, however, to gauge the overall level of Islamic State support. Al Qaeda has historically been fairly quiet for a terrorist group when it comes to claiming and boasting of attacks, while the Islamic State often exaggerates its own prowess and role to the point of absurdity. In the past, when an affiliate joined Al Qaeda, it usually took on more regional activities and went after more international targets in its region, but did not focus on attacks in the West.
By taking on the Islamic State label, local groups seem to want to attach themselves to a brand that has caught the attention of jihadists worldwide. Yet this ascendance may be transitory. What is ALS? It affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Basically, motor neurons provide voluntary movements and muscle power. As motor neurons degenerate, they can no longer send impulses to the muscle fibers that….
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