Al-Qaeda/Terrorism

Terrorism can be defined as threatening use of goods and services of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidate or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. It is the wreak of terrorizing or the state of being terrorized. Most acts of terrorism are move by terrorist organizations. Terrorist organizations use terror to accomplish their mission or objective. i of the most infamous terrorist organizations is nucleotide.Established in 1988 by militant Islamist, Osama stash away Laden, Al-Qaeda traces all the way back to the Soviet War in Afghanistan. It operates as a ne 2rk comprising both a multinational and stateless army. It has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations Security Council, NATO, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and various other countries. The overall mission of Al-Qaeda is to attempt to overthrow godless reg imes and replace them with Islamic regimes.Furthermore, the terrorist organization desires to diversify base of operations into an ideology and set of operating principles that can be more often than non franchised in other countries with come in requiring direct command and control. Al-Qaeda also states some(prenominal) other missions which intromit gathering information about the oppositeness, the land, the installations, and the neighbors, kidnapping enemy personnel documents, secrets, and arms, assassinating enemy personnel as sound as hostile tourists, and freeing the brothers who are captured by the enemy.Other missions also include spreadhead rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy, blasting and destroying the places of amusement, immorality, and sin not a vital target, blasting and destroying the embassies and attacking vital economic centers, blasting and destroying link leading into and out of the cities. The headquarters of infamou s terrorist organization are not known anymore. al-Qaeda has known contacts and activities in the following countries Afghanistan, Algeria, Bosnia, Chechnya, Eritrea, Kosovo, the Philippines, Somalia, Tajikistan, and Yemen, and now Kosovo.Additionally, root has been linked to conflicts and attacks in Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Republics, the Middle East, as well as North and South America. All in all, their threat is not limited to these geographical areas because of worldwide connections. The group has targeted American and other western sandwich interests as well as Jewish targets and Muslim governments it sees as round-shouldered or impious-above all, the Saudi monarchy. Above all, its main target is the United States of America.In 2005, Al-Quds Al-Arabi published extracts from Saif al-Adels document Al Qaedas Strategy to the yr 2020 which is a plan for the downfall of U. S. economy by the year 2020. oer the years, al-Qaeda has been involved in many terrorist atta cks. The terrorist group has underg maven proper soldiery training, and is capable of commanding insurgent forces in order to carry out its attack. Al-Qaeda linked attacks include The attempted December 2009 assailing of a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight and an October 2007 suicide bombing that narrowly missed cleansing former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.Two months later, another hero sandwich succeeds in killing the former prime minister Pakistani officials damned Baitullah Mahsud, a top Pakistani Taliban commander with close ties to al-Qaeda. Other attacks include the February 2006 attack on the Abqaiq petroleum processing facility, the largest such facility in the world, in Saudi Arabia, the July 2005 bombings of the London public transportation system, and the March 2004 bomb attacks on Madrid commuter trains, which killed nearly 200 people and left-hand(a) more than 1,800 injured.On September 11, 2001, Al-Qaeda was involved in one of the most devastati ng attacks on the United States, hijacking four U. S. airplanes, two of which crashed into the World Trade Center, and a third of which crashed into the Pentagon. 9/11 resulted in over 3,000 deaths and $95 billion worth of damage, lost of taxes, and clean-up costs to the metropolis of New York. In the aftermath of 9/11, Bin Laden issued some(prenominal) messages praising the attacks, but denying Al-Qaedas involvement. This was just one causa of the terrorist groups usage of the media. Al-Qaeda has become extremely reliant on media.It uses media to further its cause by garnering publicity towards its cause. The media is used to publicize its corrupt Islamic institutions, organizations, and ideas. All things considered, Al-Qaeda is shrinking. The leadership ranks of the main al-Qaeda terrorist network have been reduced to just two figures whose demise would reckon the groups defeat. Although the terrorist group is shrinking, it is important that the American people baulk on alert . There will probably always be a fear of the terrorist groups reemergence, but as long as we stay a step ahead and do not undervalue the group, the American people will be a-okay.