A Rhetorical Analysis of Messages to America by Osama bin Laden
... projects for the Saudi royal family (Bergen Holy 47). One of these was the restoration of an Islamic mosque. Landau stated that Osama’s spiritual awakening happened while he was restoring mosques for the family business; this motivated him to study Islam and to meet with Islamic fundamentalists (32) ...
... projects for the Saudi royal family (Bergen Holy 47). One of these was the restoration of an Islamic mosque. Landau stated that Osama’s spiritual awakening happened while he was restoring mosques for the family business; this motivated him to study Islam and to meet with Islamic fundamentalists (32) ...
Al Qaeda: Statements and Evolving Ideology
... analysts believe that these messages have been designed to elicit psychological reactions and communicate complex political messages to a global audience as well as to specific populations in the Islamic world, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Some officials and analysts believe that Al Qaeda’s ...
... analysts believe that these messages have been designed to elicit psychological reactions and communicate complex political messages to a global audience as well as to specific populations in the Islamic world, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Some officials and analysts believe that Al Qaeda’s ...
Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda - Vanderbilt Library Open Journals
... 2002, 6). Wahabbism pervades civil society in Saudi Arabia and its teachings were likely crucial in bin Laden’s early development. In contrast to most of the siblings in his wealthy family (his father founded the largest construction firm in the Middle East), bin Laden did not head west for his univ ...
... 2002, 6). Wahabbism pervades civil society in Saudi Arabia and its teachings were likely crucial in bin Laden’s early development. In contrast to most of the siblings in his wealthy family (his father founded the largest construction firm in the Middle East), bin Laden did not head west for his univ ...
Word document - South Pacific Island Ministries
... Muhammad bin Laden," rather than just Osama bin Laden. This is significant, reports G2 Bulletin, because it gives the al-Qaida leader an apocalyptic dimension. The Hadith says the Mahdi will be recognizable, among other things, by the fact that he carries the name of the Prophet. "Al Mahdi" is suppo ...
... Muhammad bin Laden," rather than just Osama bin Laden. This is significant, reports G2 Bulletin, because it gives the al-Qaida leader an apocalyptic dimension. The Hadith says the Mahdi will be recognizable, among other things, by the fact that he carries the name of the Prophet. "Al Mahdi" is suppo ...
Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (/oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn moʊˈhɑːmɨd bɪn əˈwɑːd bɪn ˈlɑːdən/; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, usāmah bin muḥammad bin 'awaḍ bin lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011) was the founder of al-Qaeda, the organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a Saudi Arabian, a member of the wealthy bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.Bin Laden was born to the family of billionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Saudi Arabia. He studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the mujahideen by funneling arms, money and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan, and gained popularity among many Arabs. In 1988, he formed al-Qaeda. He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and shifted his base to Sudan, until U.S. pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996. After establishing a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States, initiating a series of bombings and related attacks. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, as the FBI placed a $25 million bounty on him in their search for him. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, during a covert operation conducted by members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group and Central Intelligence Agency SAD/SOG operators on the orders of U.S. President Barack Obama.