Attacks Attributed to Al-qaeda in the 2000s

Year 2000:
10/2000: Bombing of the USS Cole in port in Yemen.

Year 2001:
9/11/2001: Destruction of WTC, attack on Pentagon.

Year 2002:
4/11/2002: Explosion at ancient synogogue in Tunisia leaves.
5/2002: Car explodes outside hotel in Karachi, Pakistan.
6/2002: Bomb explodes outside American Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan.
10/2002: Nightclub bombings in Bali, Indonesia.
10/2002: Suicide attack on a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.

Year 2003:
5/2003: Suicide bombers at housing compounds for Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
5/2003: Four bombs targeting Jewish, Spanish, and Belgian sites in Casablanca, Morocco.
8/2003: Suicide car bomb at Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia.
11/2003: Explosions rock a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, housing compound.
11/2003: Suicide car bombers simultaneously attack two synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey,

Year 2004:
3/2004: Ten terrorists bombs explode during the morning rush hour in Madrid, Spain.
5/29–31/2004: Terrorists attack the offices of a Saudi oil company in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.
6/11–19/2004: Terrorists execute Paul Johnson, Jr., an American, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
12/6/2004: Militantsdrive up to the U.S. consulate in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, storm the gates.

Year 2005:
7/7/2005: Bombs exploded on 3 trains and a bus in London, England, killing 52.
10/1/2005: 22 killed by 3 suicide bombs in Bali, Indonesia.
11/9/2005: 57 killed at 3 American hotels in Amman, Jordan.

Year 2006:
1/9/2006: Suicide bombers blow themselves up at the Police Academy in Baghdad.
8/10/2006: British-born Muslims plotted to blow up planes using liquid explosives.

Year 2007:
4/11/2007: Outskirts of the capital.
4/12/2007: Suicide bomber strikes inside the Parliament building in Baghdad.
12/11/2007: Suicide attacks near United Nations offices in Algiers, Algeria.

Year 2008:
1/1/2008: Suicide bomber at a Baghdad home.
2/1/2008: Women suicide bombers attack crowded pet markets in eastern Baghdad.
4/15/2008: Suicide car bomber in Baquba, the capital of Diyala Province in Iraq.
4/17/2008: A suicide bomber attacks the funeral in Iraq's Diyala Province.
6/26/2008: The suicide bombing in Anbar occurred at a meeting of the Awakening Council.

Posted By: MX

Al-qaeda recruits Kids!

Al-qaeda child training Part I & II:
This is a video of children recruited to be members of AQI chanting words of which are anti-coalition forces and praise Al Qaeda.





Al-qaeda training children as terrorists:
Captured video propaganda of Al-Qaeda's child terrorist program in Iraq. Speaks for itself.



Al-qaeda recruits children:
Al Qaeda's Use and Recruitment of Children: Captured video shows training of children for kidnapping, assassination, and terrorism against Iraqis.



Posted By: MX

Goals of Al Qaeda

Goals & Strategies

In the near term, Al Qaeda seeks to expel Westerners, specifically Americans, from historically Muslim lands, such as Iraq, Saudi Arabia and North Africa. Al Qaeda has long considered American influence and power to be one of the largest impediments to the establishment of a pan-Islamic nation.

Al Qaeda's strategy to drive the U.S. out of Muslim lands is to wage an extended campaign of terror causing substantial physical, political and economic damage that would force the U.S. to withdraw from the region. The central Al Qaeda leadership, however, does not have the capability to wage this war by itself; rather, it depends on local affiliates and allies to strike at U.S. and Western interests. Al Qaeda's leaders believe that the removal of U.S. and Western power would significantly weaken and allow them to topple the apostate rulers, creating a power vacuum which Al Qaeda and its affiliates could fill. This strategy includes not just terror attacks on U.S. interests within the region, but around the world, including within the U.S. itself. Al Qaeda and its affiliates also attack the apostate rulers themselves, attempting to weaken them directly and incite Islamic revolution.

After their short-term goals are realized and local leaders begin to fall, Al Qaeda seeks to establish Islamic rule in their place. Realizing that not all regimes will fall at the same time, it advocates immediately replacing fallen regimes with a religious autocracy similar to the former Taliban rule in Afghanistan. In most cases, these governments will be formed by local Al Qaeda affiliates in conjunction with local leaders who join the Al Qaeda cause. These governments will then be used as foundations for expanding jihadi influence and rule around the region.

Ultimately, Al Qaeda hopes join all of these separate Islamic governments to resurrect the Islamic empire, known as a caliphate, that would rule all Muslim lands and fight to expand them.

ORIGINS OF AL-QAEDA!

Al-Qaeda's leaders: (From left) Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden and Mohammed Atef

Al-Qaeda, meaning "the base", was created in 1989 as Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden and his colleagues began looking for new jihads.

The organisation grew out of the network of Arab volunteers who had gone to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight under the banner of Islam against Soviet Communism.
During the anti-Soviet jihad Bin Laden and his fighters received American and Saudi funding. Some analysts believe that Bin Laden himself had security training from the CIA.
The "Arab Afghans", as they became known, were battle-hardened and highly motivated.

In the early 1990s Al-Qaeda operated in Sudan. After 1996 its headquarters and about a dozen training camps moved to Afghanistan, where Bin Laden forged a close relationship with the Taleban.

The US campaign in Afghanistan starting in late 2001 dispersed the organisation and drove it underground as its personnel were attacked and its bases and training camps destroyed.

LATEST ON AL-QAEDA!

YEAR 2008

1.6 July 2008 - A former driver of Osama Bin Laden, Yemeni national Salim Hamdan, is convicted of providing material support for terrorism at the first war crimes trial to be held in the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is said to be al-Qaeda's number three

2.6 June 2008 - The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four other key suspects appear at a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was captured in Pakistan in 2003, dismisses the trial as an "inquisition". He says he has had five years "under torture" and wishes to become a martyr.

3.31 March 2008 - The US charges a Guantanamo Bay detainee with war crimes for the 1998 attack on the US embassy in Tanzania.

Libi is thought to have directed recent suicide attacks in Afghanistan

The Pentagon claims Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani - who was captured in 2004 - worked for al-Qaeda after the bombing as a forger, trainer and as a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden.

4.1 February 2008 - A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, is killed. News of his death - thought to be the result of a US airstrike - emerges on a website used by Islamist groups.
Al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, later swears revenge for the al-Libi's killing.

Activties of AL-QAEDA

Here are some of the attacks by the AQ from the beginning of its formation till now...
Pictures are included for reference. ENJOY!

First attack
December 29, 1992
A bomb went off at the Gold Mohur hotel, where U.S. troops had been staying while en-route to Somalia, though the troops had already left when the bomb exploded. The bombers targeted a second hotel, the Aden Movenpick, where they believed American troops might also be staying. That bomb detonated prematurely in the hotel car park, around the same time as the other bomb explosion, killing two Australian tourists. Bin Laden later claimed responsibility for the 1992 Yemen attack.

Second Attack
February 26, 1993
1993 World Trade Center bombing
Ramzi Yousef parked a rented van full of explosives in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center. The explosion claimed six victims, and over one thousand people were wounded. nephew of 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, had trained in Afghanistan.

And more...

In December 1999 and into 2000, al-Qaeda planned attacks against U.S. and Israeli tourists visiting Jordan for millennial celebrations

Al-Qaeda also directed the October, 12, 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 U.S. Navy crewmembers, and injuring another 39.


2007 Baku terrorist plot

1998 United States embassy bombings

A plan to kill President Clinton during a visit to the Philippines in early 1995

planned midair bombing of a dozen U.S. trans-Pacific flights in 1995; and plans to set off a bomb at Los Angeles International Airport in 1999

In December, 2001, suspected al-Qaeda associate Richard Colvin Reid attempted to ignite a shoe bomb on a transatlantic flight from Paris to Miami.

The most significant of all....

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September 11, 2001

19 al-Qaeda suicide attackers hijacked and crashed four U.S. commercial jets,

two into the World Trade Center in New York City,

one into the Pentagon near Washington, D.C.,

and a fourth into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, leaving about 3,000 individuals dead or missing.

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Al Qaeda(also known as Al-Qaida) =The Base in Arabic
Also known as :The Contractor.

The Vision
In 1987, several years after he began training Arab volunteers to oust Soviet forces from Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden had a vision. The time had come, he told friends, to start a global jihad, or Islamic holy war, against the corrupt secular governments of the Muslim Middle East and the Western powers that supported them.

Mr. bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire, would use his camps in Afghanistan to take holy warriors from around the world -- who had always pursued local goals -- and shape them into an international network that would fight to bring all Muslims under a militant version of Islamic law.

Where did he get his funds from?
Bin Ladin, is a member of a billionaire family that owns the Bin Ladin Group construction empire, is said to have inherited tens of millions of dollars that he uses to help finance the group. Al-Qaeda also maintains moneymaking front businesses, solicits donations from like-minded supporters, and illicitly siphons funds from donations to Muslim charitable organizations. U.S. efforts to block al-Qaeda funding has hampered their ability to obtain money.


The first mention of Osama bin Laden in The New York Times came deep within a 1994 story on Algeria, which described him as "a wealthy Saudi financier who bankrolls Islamic militant groups from Algeria to Saudi Arabia."

Two years later, the paper devoted more than 3,000 words to an article about the role of wealthy Saudi businessmen in financing terrorism that focused in large part on Mr. bin Laden.

Still, he remained little known to the general public until the bombings of embassies in Africa in 1998 and of the destroyer the U.S.S. Cole in 1999 established him and his group, Al Qaeda, as the preeminent terrorist threat to American interests.

By now, of course, Mr. bin Laden's life story is all too well known: his childhood in one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, his decision to join the Islamic resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; the growth of Al Qaeda and many more.

Al Qaeda(also known as Al-Qaida)

1. Origins of the terrorist group (leader, region, year) (HH)
2. Goals and motivations of the terrorist group (XX)
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4. Activities of the terrorist group itself. (ZL)
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