HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Taliban
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Al Qaeda
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Afghanistan
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Iraq
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bin Laden masterminded the 11 September attacks, which killed nearly 3, 000 people and led President George W. Bush to invade Afghanistan and launch the “War on Terror". He became the subject of a decade-long international manhunt, during which the FBI offered a $25 million bounty on him.
Detailed explanation-2: -Command structure. Most of Al Qaeda’s top leaders and operational directors were veterans who fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, were the leaders who were considered the operational commanders of the organization.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the principal goals of al Qaeda was to drive the United States armed forces out of Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere on the Saudi Arabian peninsula) and Somalia by violence.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1988, Osama bin Laden established Al Qaeda from a network of Arab and other foreign veterans of the Afghan insurgency against the Soviet Union, with the aim of supporting Islamist causes in conflicts around the world.