...Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group Al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, shortly after 1:00 am PKT[1][2] (20:00 UTC, May 1) by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (also known as DEVGRU or SEAL Team Six). The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a Central Intelligence Agency-led operation. In addition to DEVGRU, participating units included the United States Army Special Operations Command's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) and CIA operatives.[3][4] The raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was launched from Afghanistan.[5] U.S. military officials said that after the raid, U.S. forces took bin Laden's body to Afghanistan for identification, then buried him at sea within 24 hours of his death in accordance with Islamic tradition.[6] According to a Pakistani official, the United States had direct evidence that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha, knew of bin Laden's presence in Abbottabad.[7] Al-Qaeda confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites, vowing to avenge the killing.[8] Other Pakistani militant groups, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, also vowed retaliation against the U.S. and against Pakistan for not preventing the operation.[9] The raid was supported by over 90% of the American public,[10][11] was welcomed by the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, and a large...
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...The Death Penalty has been around since the beginning of society. It has evolved from hanging, to electrocution, to a quick and painless death by a cocktail of drugs. The death penalty was and still is reserved for the most heinous crimes a person can commit. The people might be evil, but is their punishment reasonable? It is reasonable because there are people in the world like Ted Bundy, who kidnapped, raped, and murdered possibly one hundred young women. Are people like Ted Bundy not deserving of the death penalty? Do terrorists like Osama Bin Ladin not deserve the death penalty? I understand that Osama Bin Ladin was not put on trial, but if he was there is a small chance he would be found anything but guilty. The United States’ Constitution...
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...Analysis of Osama Ben Laden Death Picture On May 1st 2011, the United States president Barrack Obama delivered a speech that said the Muslim terrorist Osama Ben Laden was dead killed by Navy SEALS. It was all on the news, and the news said that he was shot twice in the face. Everyone was happy to hear the news and to see the death picture of Osama Ben Laden it was published and shared all over the internet, some people were ever making fun of that death picture. After that a picture surfaced on internet that looked similar to the Osama Ben Laden death picture and it became popular on the internet, people’s opinion on that picture and gave different death dates of Osama Ben Laden and some said Osama Ben Laden still alive. Those news made me confused about Osama ben Laden’s death. But I realize now that I didn’t know something about Osama ben Laden’s death. That why I will analyze the picture that look same as the death...
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...Death of Osama bin Laden and its effects to al-Qaeda Name: Institutional Affiliation: Date: Death of Osama bin Laden and its effects to al-Qaida It has been four years down the line since the death of the al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In history, Osama has been the potential leader in organizing terrorist activities that have left thousands dead and several injured. His charismatic leadership led to large number of recruitments of the youth men all over the world. Osama was assassination done by the US Navy seals in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan (Owen, M., & Maurer, 2012). His assassination had a great impact on the running of the al-Qaida organization. Osama bin Laden had significantly achieved high recognition as the symbol of international terrorist. Consequently, Osama declared war on the US and allies affiliated to US. His mission was followed by organized and fruitful attacks by al-Qaeda militants’ in various countries. Back in the 1990s, he organized a successful attack on the USS Cole, US embassy in Kenya and Tanzania respectively. There were also attacks in Bali, Madrid, and London. Indeed, the death of Osama is a big blow to the al-Qaeda terrorist operation that has been depending on his strategic attacks. It is unfortunate to the organization since they have so far no one with such charismatic leadership to replace him (Bergen, P, 2013).. Osama’s death has significantly reduced the al-Qaeda into a confused and non-coherent terrorist...
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...Osama Bin Laden’s Death: a Hit or a Miss for the US? A Reaction Paper on the Death of Osama Bin Laden Raquel G. De Leon Philippine Christian University May 28, 2011 Bin Laden’s Death: A Hit or a Miss for the US? The United States caught the world by surprise with its announcement that it finally killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan on May 1, 2011. Following a decade of manhunt and costly war against Iraq and the Taliban, the mastermind of the 11 September 2001 attacks to the US’ economic and military symbols has finally repaid his actions. He was killed in his safe house in Pakistan and was buried to the sea following Islamic burial traditions. The raid, however, was unknown to Pakistani authorities, which could compromise whatever relations the two countries still have. Nonetheless, Osama is dead, and the US can now relax with the thought that its shores are now safe from the claws and pangs of terrorism, or is it so? Bin Laden’s death caused a flurry of reactions from all over the world. Some say that justice to the bombing victims had been served. Others, however, insist that although the US Military annihilated him, he already drained American coffers with trillion in dollars considering the costly wars it waged with the Iraq and the Taliban, as well as the expensive manhunt that lasted for a decade, thus raising the question of the significance of such death. Reactions do vary, with one saying that there is not any single human being, either directly or indirectly;...
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...Introduction The death of Osama Bin Laden, The master mind behind the attacks on 9/11, was a big relief for the United States and the rest of the world, because we killed the biggest threats in recent history, the leader of the terrorist group, Al-Qaeda. Who is Osama bin Landen? How long was Osama on the run before getting captured and killed? How did the death of Osama bin Laden affect us? All these questions will be answered thought out this paper. Who Was Osama Bin Laden Osama bin Laden was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1957. Osama was the 17th of more than 50 children. Osama got married at the age of 17 years old in 1974. During his marriage he had 11 children. He separated to from his wife just days before the 9/11 attacks in 2001....
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...Al Qaeda a terrorist group was founded by Osama bin Laden and Mohamad Ataf in 1989. The main objective was to drive the United States of America out of Muslim African countries, Saudi Arabia and the entire Arab Peninsula. The death of Osama bin Laden was a major blow to the group. Prior to his death the group was more coherent and structure with central leadership and smaller units with delegated missions. Even with the demise of its head the terrorist group continues to make world news headlines. Al Qaeda disintegrated into several groups that all embrace the groups initial ideologies and methodologies. The though the group has declined, its influence has soared. These splinter groups all have a connection and have a central agenda. They argue though open source data on the groups' innovation practices are necessarily more sparse, we contrast the doctrinal texts with selected examples, which suggest caution in assuming that group doctrine is necessarily put into practice "as written" (Jackson & Loidolt 2013, p. 233) Byman reviews that with Bin Laden's death, these affiliates retain their operational capacity. They continue to try to undermine U.S. allies and some, such as AQAP, will attempt to strike U.S. targets beyond the region in which they operate. His success has made them all far more lethal, but keeping the ties strong depended heavily on Bin Laden's charisma and his access to funds. Zawahiri is less charismatic than Bin Laden. The group influences like minded...
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...Death of Osama bin Laden and its effects to al-Qaeda Name: Institutional Affiliation: Date: Death of Osama bin Laden and its effects to Al-Qaida It has been four years down the line since the death of the Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In history, Osama has been the potential leader in organizing terrorist activities that have left thousands dead and several injured. His charismatic leadership led to large number of recruitments of the youth men all over the world. Osama was assassination done by the US Navy seals in a night raid on a high-walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan (Owen, M., & Maurer, 2012). His assassination had a great impact on the running of the al-Qaida organization. Osama bin Laden had significantly achieved high recognition as the symbol of international terrorist. Consequently, Osama declared war on the US and allies affiliated to US. His mission was followed by organized and fruitful attacks by al-Qaeda militants’ in various countries. Back in the 1990s, he organized a successful attack on the USS Cole, US embassy in Kenya and Tanzania respectively. There were also attacks in Bali, Madrid, and London. Indeed, the death of Osama is a big blow to the al-Qaeda terrorist operation that has been depending on his strategic attacks. It is unfortunate to the organization since they have so far no one with such charismatic leadership to replace him (Bergen, P, 2013).. Osama’s death has significantly reduced the al-Qaeda into a confused...
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...beyond the unreasonable doubt of why an individual would be indicted. The presumption of innocence is essential in a fair trial given to an individual. Osama Bin Laden was a faulty evil leader who has only influenced and articulated individuals to wrong doing to others. Whether Osama was a murder, a corrupted politician, or a leader to those who followed him he deserved a fair trial once captured. Osama bin Laden was the mastermind and claimed responsibility of the thousands of lives lost throughout decades from various countries around the world. America lost over two thousands lives and mentally and emotionally ruined many others due to Osama’s leadership. When Osama was captured on May 1st of 2011, he was shot to death in Pakistan. His body was later given a sea burial. By him being shot to death the rights to live and the right to a fair trial was taken from him by his predators. If Osama was not equipped with a harmful weapon of any kind he should have been saved and tried for a fair trial under the international court. If Osama was equipped with a harming device and attacked first then his predators had no other choice than retaliate against him. However killing him and shooting him in the head was a crucial way of taking away his human rights in a fair trial. America claims a democratic country, and by doing so Osama Bin Laden should have been given the opportunity for a fair trial. This implants a seed in...
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...Osama Bin Laden Biography Osama bin Laden and His fusion of Terrorism Introduction: Osama bin Laden, born in 1957, comes from a wealthy Saudi Arabian family that owns a multinational construction business. He used his inborn wealth to finance Afghan forces fighting the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980's. After the 1991 Gulf War, he was distressed that Saudi Arabia allowed U.S. forces to remain in the Arabian Peninsula. To advance his agenda of expelling the U.S. from the Islamic world, he worked with other anti-Western fundamentalists to organize a secretive, highly compartmentalized terrorist network, known as al-Qaida. It is through his upbringing, education, culture, and wars in Islamic countries, that Osama bin Laden has sought to purge the Islamic world of the influences that he believes have corrupted and degraded it. Osama bin Laden’s family: Osama Bin Laden was the 17th son of 51 children of Muhammad bin Laden. His father was of Yemeni descent, and his mother was from Saudi Arabia. Osama's father was the dominant figure in the family, and Osama may have obtained his strong Islamic heritage from his father. "He had a tough discipline and observed all the children with strict religious and social code. He maintained a special daily program and obliged his children to follow.1 Over and above the strict Islamic teachings that he received from his father; Osama bin Laden also received religious indoctrination...
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... Many people just sit in disbelief when they see a terrorist attack, whether it be on tv or right next to them. Explaining what he thinks about the reaction in the United States against terrorism, Anup Shah said, “It was with disbelief and shock that people around the world saw footage of the terrorist attack in the U.S...”(Shah). Terrorism is horrific and must be stopped for the safety of our loved ones. Terrorism is also a worldwide problem, everywhere people's safety is being taken and destroyed by these horrendous events. Terrorism has caused global fear around the world and has taken the peace from people’s lives. Three events that have taken the peace from people’s lives are the attack of 9-11, Osama Bin Laden, and Al Qaeda and in understanding these events, hopefully they can be prevented. First, the tragedy that happened on September 11th, 2001 was possibly one of the worst incidents of this time for the United States. Many people lost their lives and safety that day. Four separate planes were hijacked that day by terrorists and their intent was to hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the White House. Luckily, some men upon one of the planes stood up to the terrorists and landed the plane in a field in Pennsylvania instead of hitting the white house. K. Lee Kerner said, On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda-trained terrorists hijacked four U.S. commercial airliners. The hijackers crashed two...
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...man, Osama bin Laden. It was a huge million dollar home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, with far too much security and 18-foot high walls, much taller than necessary to protect the two couriers who allegedly lived there alone. A U.S. bullet into his head, among other places, is what brought the sudden end to Bin Laden's life after a 10-year hunt for the spiritual leader of the global Al-Qaeda terrorist franchise and the master plotter of the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. The death of Osama bin Laden has raised many questions; what impact does his death have on U.S. counter-terrorism activities, Al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism, and U.S./NATO efforts in Afghanistan? More importantly, is the world any safer now than it was before? U.S. efforts to combat terrorism Without doubt, the death of the Al-Qaida leader is a great achievement in the global fight against terrorism. The spontaneous celebrations that broke out across the U.S. show how eagerly Americans were waiting to see this day. “History's most expansive, expensive and exasperating manhunt has finally ended, but the most expensive war against terrorism still has a long way to go.” (China Post, 2011) While we take comfort in his removal, we must not become complacent in our efforts to win the war on terror. Bin Laden’s death stands as a favorable victory to the world, but it is a symbolic victory more than a strategic changing victory. The New Zealand Herald (2011) writes that the killing of Osama bin Laden...
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...On May 2nd, 2011, Osama Bin Laden was assassinated by United States Navy Seals in his compound in Pakistan. Osama Bin Laden was an infamous terrorist who led attacks on the United States and several of its allies. He created the jihadist group called Al-Qaeda, which he used to carry out several major terrorist attacks across the world. Although Bin Laden could have been interrogated for information, his assassination was justified because he organized the 9/11 terrorist attack, he had an extreme hatred for the United States, and he was the leader of Al-Qaeda. The September 11th terrorist attack was the worst terrorist attack in the history of the United States. Approximately 2,753 people died in the attack after a total of four planes crashed into the North and South World Trade Centers, the Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania (CNN Library, September 11th Terror Attacks). Additionally, on December 13, 2001, the United States government released a video of Osama Bin Laden claiming responsibility for the September 11th terrorist attack(CNN Library, September 11th). This evidence shows that his assassination was justified because the terrorist attack killed thousands of people and the video shows...
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...hero to the Afghani men he led. This prompted him to create the Al-Qaeda organization “to carry on a global war on so-called infidels.” Osama went back to Saudi Arabia and started to be angry with not only the bond between the U.S. and Israel, but the altogether presence of the U.S. in the Middle East. Things escalated again when, in 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The fear in Saudi Arabia was that he would move into their country next. Osama had already offered the Saudis the option of having him drive Hussein out and back to Iraq. Instead of utilizing Osama’s skills, the Saudis asked the U.S. for help. Thus, Operation Desert Storm began, and Osama’s outrage led him to take action against these intruders. While the U.S. focused on pushing Hussein back, Al-Qaeda began committing their first terrorist attacks. In 1992, they set off a bomb at the Gold Minor Hotel in Yemen where U.S. troops had been boarded....
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...Within 22 years Osama Bin Laden caused a lot of havoc. He was the one of the world’s most sought out terrorist. How could one person do so much damage? My intent is to research keys into why Osama Bin Laden was such a success as a leader, wealth, cleverness and Religious tracts are my ideas on why he was successful. Background, Osama Bin Laden was born into money. He was the 17th child of a man that owned the largest construction company in the Saudi Kingdom.” His Father died in a helicopter crash in 1968, his children inherited the billionaire's construction empire. Osama bin Laden, then 13 years old, purportedly came into a fortune of some $300 million.”(Osama bin Laden). With his wealth and many relatives Osama bin Laden was able to move...
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