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'Osama bin Laden' threatens retaliation over
9/11 trial
Osama bin Laden has warned al-Qaeda will kill Americans
if Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the
Sept 11 attacks, is executed, according to a tape AlJazeera television aired on Thursday.
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Osama Bin Laden grossly underestimated U.S.
retaliation to 9/11: Ex-associate
Washington, Apr 28: A former Osama bin Laden associate
has said that the Al-Qaeda leader did not expect the
United States to strike back as hard as it has following
the September 11, 2001 attacks
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The Islamic terror attacks of September 11, 2001 did not come out of the
blue.
Two earlier attacks + lack of American retaliation, might have paved the
way for the atrocity of 9/11.
 These two attacks were the Iranian takeover of the American embassy in
Tehran in 1979 and the bombing massacre of the Marines in Beirut in 1983.
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The attack, sanctioned by the government of Iran, may be considered
the date when fanatical Islam began its official war on America.
One of America’s most embarrassing humiliations.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his Islamic Republic of Iran had brought
the United States to its knees.
 Carter wrote a polite letter to the Ayatollah requesting that the hostages be
released. The letter appeared only to embolden Khomeini, who later boasted
that “America cannot do a damn thing.”
http://www.faithfreedom.org/articles/islamic-jihad-articles/americas-odyssey-with-islamic-terror-the-failure-to-retaliate/
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A series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on
September 11, 2001.
On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet
airliners.
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Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City
Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.
The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania after some of its
passengers and flight crew attempted to retake control of the plane, which the hijackers had
redirected toward Washington, D.C. There were no survivors from any of the flights.
Nearly 3,000 victims and the 19 hijackers died in the attacks.
According to the New York State Health Department, 836 responders, including
fire fighters and police personnel, have died as of June 2009.
Among the 2,752 victims who died in the attacks on the World Trade Centre were
343 fire fighters and 60 police officers from New York City and the Port Authority.
184 people were killed in the attacks on the Pentagon.
The overwhelming majority of casualties were civilians, including nationals of
over 70 countries.
In addition, there was at least one secondary death—one person was ruled by a
medical examiner to have died from lung disease due to exposure to dust from
the collapse of the World Trade Centre
War on Terror, invading Afghanistan to depose the
Taliban, who had harbored al-Qaeda terrorists, and
enacting the USA PATRIOT Act.
 Many other countries also strengthened their antiterrorism legislation and expanded law enforcement
powers.
 Some American stock exchanges stayed closed for the
rest of the week following the attack, and posted
enormous losses upon reopening, especially in the
airline and insurance industries.
 The destruction of billions of dollars' worth of office
space caused serious damage to the economy of
Lower Manhattan.
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At 2:40 p.m. in the afternoon of September 11, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was
issuing rapid orders to his aides to look for evidence of Iraqi involvement, according to
notes taken by senior policy official Stephen Cambone.
"Best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H." — meaning Saddam Hussein — "at same
time. Not only UBL" (Osama bin Laden), Cambone's notes quoted Rumsfeld as saying. "Need
to move swiftly — Near term target needs — go massive — sweep it all up. Things related and
not.“
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The NATO council declared that the attacks on the United States were considered an
attack on all NATO nations and, as such, satisfied Article 5 of the NATO charter.
Upon returning to Australia having been on an official visit to the U.S. at the time of the
attacks, Australian Prime Minister John Howard invoked Article IV of the ANZUS treaty.
Goals - bringing Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to justice and preventing the emergence
of other terrorist networks.
Accomplished by means including economic and military sanctions against states
perceived as harboring terrorists and increasing global surveillance and intelligence
sharing.
The second-biggest operation of the U.S. Global War on Terrorism outside of the United
States, and the largest directly connected to terrorism, was the overthrow of the Taliban
rule of Afghanistan by a U.S.-led coalition.
Article 5
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be
considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack
occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by
Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking
forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary,
including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the
Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the
measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security .
Article IV of the ANZUS Treaty
Each Party recognizes that an armed attack in the Pacific Area on any of the Parties would be dangerous
to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet the common danger in
accordance with its constitutional processes. Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a
result thereof shall be immediately reported to the Security Council of the United Nations. Such
measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore
and maintain international peace and security.
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Announcements
‘Clean up’ and recovery
Compensation
Hate crimes
Muslim American reaction
 Top Muslim organizations in the United States were swift to
condemn the attacks on 9/11 and called "upon Muslim Americans
to come forward with their skills and resources to help alleviate the
sufferings of the affected people and their families".Top
organizations included the Islamic Society of North America,
American Muslim Alliance, American Muslim Council, Council on
American-Islamic Relations, Islamic Circle of North America, and
the Shari'a Scholars Association of North America. Along with
massive monetary donations, many Islamic organizations
launched blood drives and provided medical assistance, food, and
shelter for victims
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The attacks were denounced by mass media and governments worldwide. Across
the globe, nations offered pro-American support and solidarity.
Leaders in most Middle Eastern countries, and Afghanistan, condemned the
attacks. Iraq was a notable exception, with an immediate official statement that
"the American cowboys are reaping the fruit of their crimes against humanity”
Tens of thousands of people attempted to flee Afghanistan following the attacks,
fearing a response by the United States
Pakistan, already home to many Afghan refugees from previous Afghan conflict,
closed its border with Afghanistan on September 17.
Approximately one month after the attacks, the United States led a broad
coalition of international forces in the removal of the Taliban regime for
harboring the al-Qaeda organization.
Pakistani authorities moved reluctantly to align themselves with the United
States in a war against the Taliban. Pakistan provided the United States a number
of military airports and bases for its attack on the Taliban regime and arrested
over 600 suspected al-Qaeda members, whom it handed over to the United
States.
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Numerous countries, including Canada, China, the United Kingdom,
France, Russia, Germany, India and Pakistan introduced anti-terrorism
legislation and froze the bank accounts of businesses and individuals
they suspected of having al-Qaeda ties.
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies in a number of countries,
including Italy, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines arrested people
they labelled terrorist suspects for the stated purpose of breaking up
militant cells around the world.
In the U.S., this aroused some controversy, as critics such as the Bill of
Rights Defense Committee argued that traditional restrictions on federal
surveillance were "dismantled" by the USA PATRIOT Act.Organizations
such as the American Civil Liberties Union argued that certain civil rights
protections were also being circumvented.
The United States set up a detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to
hold inmates they defined as "illegal enemy combatants". The legitimacy
of these detentions has been questioned by, among others, the
European Parliament, the Organization of American States, and Amnesty
International
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The War on Terror (also known as the Global War on
Terror or the War on Terrorism) is an ongoing
international military campaign led by the USA and
the UK with the support of other NATO and nonNATO countries. The campaign was launched in 2001
with the US/UK invasion of Afghanistan in response to
the September 11 terrorist attacks. Since then, other
operations have commenced, the largest being the
War in Iraq, beginning with a 2003 invasion. Originally,
it was waged against al-Qaedas and other terrorist
organizations with the purpose of eliminating them
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When Bush delivered the ultimatum to the Taliban government of
Afghanistan to turn over Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda leaders ,The
Taliban demanded evidence of bin Laden's link to the attacks and, if
such evidence warranted a trial, they offered to handle such a trial in
an Islamic Court. The US refused to provide any evidence.
October 2001 US forces (with UK and coalition allies) invaded
Afghanistan (with the Afghan Northern Alliance too)
On October 7, 2001, the official invasion began with British and US
forces conducting airstrike campaigns.
Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, fell by mid-November. The
remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants fell back to the rugged
mountains of Eastern Afghanistan, mainly Tora Bora.
In December, the US and her allies fought within that region. It’s
believed that Osama bin-Laden escaped into Pakistan during the
battle.
In March 2002, the United States and other NATO and non-NATO
forces launched Operation Anaconda in the hopes that they’ll
destroy any remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in the ShahiKot Valley and Arma Mountains of Afghanistan. The Taliban
suffered heavy casualties and evacuated the region.
 The Taliban regrouped in Western Pakistan and began to unleash
an insurgent-style offensive against the US and her allies in late
2002. Throughout Southern and Eastern Afghanistan, firefights
broke out between the surging Taliban and Coalition forces.
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 The United States and her allies responded with a series of military
offensives and an increase in the amount of troops in Afghanistan. In
February 2010, Coalition forces launched Operation Moshtarak in
Southern Afghanistan along with other military offensives in the
hopes that they’ll destroy the Taliban insurgency once and for all.
Peace talks are also underway between Taliban affiliated fighters and
Coalition forces.
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During the following Karzai administration,
the character of the war shifted to an effort
aimed at smothering an insurgency hostile to
the US-backed Karzai government, in which
the insurgents preferred not to directly
confront the International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) troops, but blended into the
local population and mainly used improvised
explosive devices (IEDs) and suicide
bombings.
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Since 2006, Afghanistan has experienced
increased Taliban-led insurgent activity,
record-high levels of illegal drug production,
with participation by Northern Alliance drug
lords in the Karzai regime, and a corrupt
government with limited control outside of
Kabul.
The Taliban can sustain itself indefinitely,
according to a December 2009 briefing by the
top U.S. intelligence officer in Afghanistan.
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Karzai goverment attempted peace talks
with Taliban in January
 No progress as people fear another resurgence
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Recent elections have been held
 No results after several weeks
 Many claim election as illegal and call for a new
poll