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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.
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.
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