THE LONGEST WAR

THE ENDURING CONFLICT BETWEEN

AMERICA & AL-QAEDA

ALEXA C. ABIDIN

Afghan Mona Lisa

Part I: Hubris
Chapter 1: Holy Tuesday
Chapter 2: Explaining 9/11
Chapter 3: Blinking Red
Chapter 4: Kicking Ass
Chapter 5: The Great Escape
Chapter 6: The Destruction of the Base
Chapter 7: The Gloves Came Off
Chapter 8: Home Front: The First Bush
Term
Chapter 9: Building the Case for War
with Iraq
Chapter 10: The War of Error
Chapter 11: Almost Losing the War the
United States Thought It Had Won
Chapter 12: Al-Qaeda 2.0
Chapter 13: Al-Qaedas Quixotic Quest
for Weapons of Mass Destruction

Part II: Nemesis?

Chapter 14: The United States of Jihad
Chapter 15: Pakistan: The New Base
Chapter 16: The Fall of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
and the Rise of an Iraqi State
Chapter 17: The Jihad Within
Chapter 18: The End of the War on
Terror?
Chapter 19: Obamas War
Chapter 20: The Long Hunt

OSAMA BIN LADEN

IDENTITY INFORMATION
Full Name: Usamah bin
Muhammad bin Awad bin
Laden
Born: Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, 1957
Education: schools in
Jeddah; King Abd al-Aziz
University, Jeddah
Status: Married, with
children.

TIMELINE
1968 Father dies in plane
crash, San Antonio
1979 Soviet Union invades
Afghanistan.
1984 Moves to Pakistan.
1988 Osama bin Laden
creates al Qaeda.
1991 Moves to the Sudan.
1994 Saudi Arabia revokes
Osama bin Laden's citizenship.
Bin Laden Family disowns him.

History of Al-Qaeda and

Terrorism against the USA

Terrorism Against the United

States
February 1993: World Trade Center in
New York, bomb exploded in
parking garage killing six people
by Ramzi Yousef and coconspirators
April 19, 1995: Federal Building in
Oklahoma City bombing by
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols
killed 168 (19 of which were
children); injured 100s more

Terrorism Against the United

States
June 25, 1996: Khobar Towers in Saudi
Arabi bombing by Al Qaeda
killed 19 US servicemen
July 27, 1996: Olympic Games in
Atlanta, GA bombing killed 1,
injured 111
October 12, 2000: USS Cole in Yemen bombing by Al-Qaeda, killed 17
sailors; injured 39
July 27, 1996: Olympic Games in
Atlanta, GA bombing killed 1,
injured 111

September 11, 2001

2 planes crash into the World Trade Center Twin Towers
Plane crashes into the Pentagon
Plane headed to Capital Hill Congress brave American
citizens tried to fight the terrorist on board; plane crashes in
Somerset county in Shanksville PA
Nearly 3,000 victims
Al Qaeda members hijacked the planes leader Osama Bin
Laden claimed responsible for attacks in 2004.

Islamic Extremism
Acts of terrorism committed by extremists who call themselves
Muslims for the purpose of achieving varying political and/or
religious ends.
It is said that only 5% of Muslims globally are terrorists

Al Qaeda global militant Islamist group founded by Osama

(Usama) bin Laden. It operates as a network comprising both

a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim
movement calling for global Jihad.

Jihad: In western societies the term jihad is often translated as

"holy war". Sacrificing one's life for the sake of Islam/God/a just
cause" or "fighting against the opponents of Islam.

What is Al-Qaeda?
Al Qaeda means the Base. It is a

stateless (meaning without a country)

terrorist organization.
It is led and financed by Osama bin
Laden, a radical Sunni Muslim.

When did Al-Qaeda form?

The beginnings of al-Qaeda go back to the 1980s
when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

Al Qaeda

Well funded group wealthy

Global
Elaborate
Smart
Some Al Qaeda members work in business offices and are upper
class members of society
Possible Nuclear Weapons?
Not to be confused with the Taliban:
Taliban -- > group of varying tribes mostly in Afghanistan, Iraq,
and Pakistan they make their people dependent on them
purposely attack US if we are on their land - tolerates/supports Al
Qaeda (lets Al Qaeda stay and live on their land)

War on Terrorism
The United States Responds to 9/11!
The phrase War on Terror was first used by US President George W. Bush
United States Homeland Security Implemented

War on Terror ...is an international military campaign led by the

United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as well as non-NATO
countries. Campaign was waged against Al Qaeda and other
militant organizations with the purpose of eliminating them.

We do not create terrorism by fighting the

terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring
them.
-GEORGE W. BUSH, speech, Dec. 18, 2005

 2819 people were killed

343 firefighters and
paramedics were killed

Khalid Sheik Muhhamad was the central

Planner of the 9/11. Most terrorists (at right)
were from Saudi Arabia.

THE LAST DAYS OF BIN LADEN

OSAMA BIN LADEN

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