Assignment On History Of Osama bin Laden

HISTORY

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In what ways did Osama bin Laden achieve his goals?
Osama bin Mohammad bin Awad bin Laden has been name of terror for years. He was the
establisher of Pan-Islamic militant firm al-Qaeda. Till 1994 he was the citizen of Saudi Arab.
He belonged from wealthy bin laden family. His father was a millionaire and was a founder
of the construction firm Saudi Binladin Group. He was studying in the University at Saudi
Arabia till 1979. He got associated with the Mujahideen forces in Pakistan IN 1979 where he
fought in Afghanistan on the other side of Soviet Union. He gained his popularity in the Arab
as he started funding the Mujahideen forces in providing money, people from the Arab
nations into the Afghanistan as well as provided them with arms. He established al-Qaeda in
the year 19881. In the year 1992 he was banned from entering into Saudi Arab and hence he
his base was shifted to Sudan. In the year 1996 due to pressure he has to leave Sudan. In
Afghanistan he established his new base where he declared a war against the United States
which resulted in numbers of attacks and bombings. He was on the FBIs lists of Ten Most
Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists as he was indulged the bombing of U.S.
embassy in the year 1998. In this essay it will be evaluated that how Bin Laden was able to
achieve his goals2.
Bin Laden came into highlight after the Attack on twin towers on 9/11. This has impact on
the whole of the world. It was considered to be as one of the biggest terrorist attacks. It can
be said that Osama bin laden was able to achieve his goals was because his goal was to bring
terrorism on the front page of the papers in the whole world. He declared war against United
States because United States said themselves as the biggest fighters from terrorism3. What
United States was doing in the Arab nations was not liked by many of the people that are
from other parts of the world. His accomplishment of goals can be understood by the fact that
United States understood itself as one of the safest countries to live and the politician had
hatred against Islamic people. Osama bin laden was having the goal of destroying the two big
1 Landau Elaine, Osama Bin Laden (Lerner Publishing Group, 2014).
2 Christopher Dreisbach, "VICIOUS DUTY: THE ETHICS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN", Think 10, no. 28
(2011): 29-39, doi:10.1017/s1477175611000066.
3 Peter L Bergen, Holy War, Inc. ([Place of publication not identified]: Free Press, 2014).

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nations like Soviet Union and United States by putting these nations into the long term war4.
Before Osama the terrorism was limited to the local level and it was never thought that an
organisation from other continent to do so much loss to the country in another continent. This
helped Osama in recruiting large numbers of Jihadists who were ready to fight a long term
war with these two big nations for their acts against the Muslims. These Jihadists were never
ready to surrender. He wanted that the Arab who had so much money should not kneel down
before the countries like America which was a military superpower. He understood that
fighting America in a direct and conventional war will not result in anything hence he took
the route of elusive war which did not looked like war but it was not a direct war5. This was a
bigger problem for the American government as they were not ready for the attacks like 9/11
which killed thousands of people and the government could do nothing.
However his goal to bleed America till its bankruptcy was never being achieved. However
his attack on world trade centre created a belief in the minds of the Taliban that they can win
this war. It was this attack due to which the fear in the minds of the people of America. The
businesses within America were not performing well as expected for few months. This attack
made Osama the global hero among the terrorists group which made him successful in his
goal of doing long term war with America with the help of Jihadists. It was a sign of his
accomplishments of goals that after the 9/11 attack that he hide himself from any active
terrorist activities and started living a life like civilians. It was seen that America was in a
constant pressure to kill Osama which was not an easy task. Whenever America stated that he
killed Osama Bin Laden, he come up with new video which again energised people to join
terrorist groups6. His goals of raising the fight against the biggest power in the world become
successful as he becomes the role model for the people in Afghanistan. It was seen that after
the attack of 9/11 there were many terrorists group came up which was having large numbers
of recruiters from different parts of the Asian and African region. It was also the fact that in
4 Richard Gauvain, "Osama Bin Laden As A Multi-Vocal Symbol", Political Theology 12, no. 5 (2011):
713-721, doi:10.1558/poth.v12i5.713.
5 Jennifer Wallace, "Photography, Tragedy And Osama Bin Laden: Looking At The Enemy", Critical
Quarterly 57, no. 2 (2015): 17-35, doi:10.1111/criq.12193.
6 Dwinggy Medelton, "The Death Of Osama Bin Laden, Again", SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011,
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1830130.

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Afghanistan the large parts of youngsters were unemployed. This gave him the chance to
recruit people and he started getting funds from the Islamic nations. He made the war against
the America as the war in favour of Islam. This made it easier for him to motivate his people
to fight7.
Before 9/11 the western countries understood that terrorism was only limited to certain
countries and it will not affect the western nations but all the myths got busted that some
countries are safe. The world media started talking about such incidents more often. This
helped the terrorist groups to get more and more funds from the people that hated the Western
ideologies or from the people that wanted the spread of Islam8. He also accomplished his
goals in terms of the fact that Osama himself became the name of the fear and he killed as
many people as possible till the time he was dead. His reason for killing the people that he
gave was that the people are supporting the governments so they will also have to die
however his intention was to affect the economy of United States. It was also seen that
United States raised a war in Afghanistan which costed them too much both financial and in
the form of loss of people9.
7 Dwinggy Medelton, "The Death Of Osama Bin Laden, Again", SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011,
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1830130.
8 Bruce B. Lawrence, "The Late Shaikh Osama Bin Laden: A Religious Profile Of Al-Qaeda's
Deceased Poster Child", The Muslim World 101, no. 3 (2011): 374-389, doi:10.1111/j.1478-
1913.2011.01395.x.
9 "The 9/11 Attacks Accomplished Every Goal That Osama Bin Laden Wanted To
Achieve", Pastemagazine.Com, 2020, https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/september-11th/911-
accomplished-every-goal-that-osama-bin-laden-w/.

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Bibliography
"The 9/11 Attacks Accomplished Every Goal That Osama Bin Laden Wanted To
Achieve". Pastemagazine.Com, 2020. https://www.pastemagazine.com/politics/september-
11th/911-accomplished-every-goal-that-osama-bin-laden-w/.
Bergen, Peter L. Holy War, Inc.. [Place of publication not identified]: Free Press, 2014.
Dreisbach, Christopher. "VICIOUS DUTY: THE ETHICS OF OSAMA BIN
LADEN". Think 10, no. 28 (2011): 29-39. doi:10.1017/s1477175611000066.
Elaine, Landau. Osama Bin Laden. Lerner Publishing Group, 2014.
Gauvain, Richard. "Osama Bin Laden As A Multi-Vocal Symbol". Political Theology 12, no.
5 (2011): 713-721. doi:10.1558/poth.v12i5.713.
Lawrence, Bruce B. "The Late Shaikh Osama Bin Laden: A Religious Profile Of Al-Qaeda's
Deceased Poster Child". The Muslim World 101, no. 3 (2011): 374-389. doi:10.1111/j.1478-
1913.2011.01395.x.
Medelton, Dwinggy. "The Death Of Osama Bin Laden, Again". SSRN Electronic Journal,
2011. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1830130.
Wallace, Jennifer. "Photography, Tragedy And Osama Bin Laden: Looking At The
Enemy". Critical Quarterly 57, no. 2 (2015): 17-35. doi:10.1111/criq.12193.