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laden in this blog we are trying to understand what Bin laden think about the
world why he was attack on world trade center and the key question of this blog that is the way Bin laden is remembered, did he want to be like that? take a look on Bin laden life he was born in 1957 in Riyadh
kingdom.
Al-Qaeda trained militants and funded terrorist attacks.
In 1998 bin Laden ordered an operation larger than any of al-Qaeda’s previous
operations simultaneous bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya,
and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which altogether killed 224 people. The
United States retaliated by launching cruise missiles at sites
believed to be bin Laden’s bases in Afghanistan were thousand of innocent
Afghani Muslims was killed by US . Another al-Qaeda bombing in 2000 targeted
the USS Cole, an American warship harbored in Yemen, and
killed 17 sailors. The growth of the organization was attributed in part to bin
Laden’s charisma. He was known to be a skilled orator, able to
manipulate a variety of rhetorical strategies and to make his message
easily accessible even to the uneducated. At the end of the 20th century, bin
Laden was thought to have had thousands of militant followers worldwide, in
places as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Bosnia, Chechnya,
and the Philippines. In 2001, after 19 militants associated with al-Qaeda staged
the September 11 attacks, the United States led a coalition
that overthrew the Taliban in Afghanistan. In December 2001 bin Laden went into hiding
after evading capture by U.S. forces in the Tora Bora cave complex. In the
following years, U.S. forces searched for him along the Afghanistan- Pakistan border,
during which time bin Laden remained absent from the public eye. Then in
October 2004 less than a week before that year’s U.S. presidential
election bin Laden emerged in a videotaped message in which he claimed
responsibility for the September 11 attacks. After that he periodically
released audio messages, including in 2008, when he threatened retaliation for
the deaths of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and in 2009, when he
challenged the nerve of the new U.S. president, Barack Obama, to continue
the fight against al-Qaeda. due to this step bin laden in a fix. Meanwhile,
U.S. forces had continued to hunt for bin Laden, who was still thought possibly
to be hiding either in Afghanistan or in the tribal regions of Pakistan near
the border with Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence eventually located him in
Pakistan, living in a secure compound in Abbottabad,
a medium-sized city near Islamabad. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was killed
when a small U.S. force transported by helicopters raided the
compound. His body, identified visually at the site of the raid, was taken out
of Pakistan by U.S. forces for examination and DNA identification and soon after was given
a (fake)sea burial. Hours after its confirmation, bin Laden’s death was
announced by Obama in a televised address. Several days after Obama’s
announcement, al-Qaeda released a statement publicly acknowledging bin Laden’s
death and vowing revenge. Ten years after the killing of its founder Osama
bin Laden, Al-Qaeda bears little resemblance to the terror network that struck
the US on September 11, 2001, but remains a threat even under a starkly
different leadership structure. After his killing in Pakistan by US
special forces, Bin Laden was succeeded as Al-Qaeda's chief by the Egyptian
jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, an ideologue who has cut a far less charismatic
presence. Zawahiri has had to lie very low, most likely around the
Afghanistan-Pakistan border, amid speculation over whether he is still even
alive, while the group has now mutated into something very different central is
a shadow of its former self," Barak Mendelsohn, a terrorism expert at
Haverford College in Pennsylvania, told AFP. "Zawahiri's biggest success
was to keep Al-Qaeda alive. "Mendelsohn said that rather than being a
coherent decision-making Centre, Al-Qaeda's leadership is now more akin to a
"board of advisors" rallying and assisting jihadists across the world.
Zawahiri, 69, has seen Al-Qaeda essentially franchise out its operations from
the Maghreb to Somalia to Afghanistan, as well as in Syria and Iraq. “Under
Zawahiri's stewardship, Al-Qaeda has become increasingly decentralized, with
authority resting primarily in the hands of Al-Qaeda's affiliate leaders,"
according to a recent report from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) think-tank.
It said Zawahiri had indeed played a major role in the reorganization of
numerous jihadist groups under Al-Qaeda's umbrella. At the end of 2020,
unconfirmed reports re-emerged that Zawahiri had died from a heart condition,
the latest in years of rumors that he was in fact dead.
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He later appeared in a video denouncing the plight of the
Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar.The uncertainty over the composition of Al-Qaeda's
leadership was intensified last August following the killing in Tehran,
reportedly by Israeli agents, of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, the group's number
two under al-Zawahiri and known by his nom-de-guerre of Abu Mohammed al-Masri.If
Zawahiri is still alive, it means Al-Qaeda is led by a man most likely in
ailing health who, despite being one of the architects of the September 11,
2001, attacks, lacks the macabre magnetism of his predecessor.The US has issued
a $25 million bounty for Zawahiri and put him on its most-wanted terrorists
list, but analysts say officials do not seem overly concerned about him, and
are not making overt efforts to hunt him down. Washington's lack of interest may
be down to the weakening importance of Al-Qaeda as a decision-making hub,
coinciding with the rise of the rival Islamic State group.IS, which at its peak
controlled a self-proclaimed "caliphate" comprising swathes of Iraq
and Syria, notably stole the thunder of Al-Qaeda in media as its radical voice
dominated social networks. Rather than joining forces, the two groups have
fought on numerous battlefields in the Middle East and Africa, and Al-Qaeda is
still confronted with a challenge to remain relevant.- New generation? -Whatever
Zawahiri's fate, his era is coming to a close and experts point to one clear
candidate as his possible future successor, his fellow Egyptian Saif al-Adel.
Adel is a former lieutenant-colonel in the Egyptian special forces who
joined the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group in the 1980s. He was arrested but was
later freed, and travelled to Afghanistan to join Al-Qaeda under Zawahiri.
"Adel played a crucial role in building Al-Qaeda's operational
capabilities and quickly ascended the hierarchy," said the CEP, adding
that he also had a central role in training the plane hijackers who carried out
the September 11 attacks Al-Qaeda has vowed to “wage war on all fronts” against the
US unless it retreats from the entire Muslim world. Speaking just days ahead of
the 10-year anniversary of the assassination of the group’s former leader Osama
bin Laden, two of its operatives told CNN that it is planning a comeback in
Afghanistan as the US withdraws. “The Americans are now defeated,” said
Al-Qaeda. The terrorist group, now led by Ayman Zawahiri, has largely been
eclipsed by Daesh in recent years in terms of attacks carried out and media
exposure. The presence of US forces in the Middle East has long been seized
upon by terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda, Daesh and Hezbollah as a rallying
cry for their causes. Earlier in April, US President Joe Biden announced that
he would withdraw troops from Afghanistan, effectively ending America’s
longest-ever war. “Bin Laden is dead and Al-Qaeda is degraded in Afghanistan.
And it’s time to end the forever war,” he said. As part of the withdrawal, the
Taliban and the US have agreed in talks that the group will cut ties with
Al-Qaeda. While its direct physical presence has declined since the death of
Bin Laden on May 2, 2011, Zawahiri has overseen a diversification of its role
in global jihadism. “Under Zawahiri’s stewardship, Al-Qaeda has become increasingly
decentralized, with authority resting primarily in the hands of Al-Qaeda’s
affiliate leaders,” according to a recent report from the Counter Extremism
Project (CEP) think tank. The US has placed a $25 million bounty for Zawahiri,
who features on its most-wanted-terrorist list. these types of condition make
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