Osama Bin Laden Research Paper

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Born in Saudi Arabia, Osama Bin Laden was an extremist who promoted worldwide jihad or the holy war against non-Islamic countries. He was a jihadi or jihadist and believes that an Islamic state, which will govern all the communities of Muslims must be established and while doing so, use violence against those who oppose it. He then created and became the leader of an infamous terrorist organization to fight and use acts of terrorism to limit the foreign interference in the Middle East and proceed its Islamic revolutions against Israel and the Western countries that supported it.
The conflict between Arabs and Jews began even before Osama was born but despite his young age in later years, he became a follower of the radical Islamist Abdullah
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Because of his terrorist group, many lives have been lost including the lives of the people in Riyadh, Kenya, Yemen, and most of all, the people of America. Osama targeted mainly on Americans because Americans have continued to attack them again and again over the past years; Americans attacked them in Palestine and helped and supported the Jews and their creation of Israel rather than the Palestinian people who have lived on the land for years. Osama believed that Israel should've never existed in the first place and blamed it on the U.S. who backed Israel. He continued to initiate terrorist attacks over the years and on September 11, 2001, he launched his attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside of Washington, killing three thousand Americans or more. Usually, these kind of events occur almost everyday in Israel and the Arab nations but not many people paid attention to it; but because it was the United States, a powerful nation, that was attacked, people started to notice and it sent a clear signal to the world how great the trouble between Israel and its Western countries and the Arab nations really are. Bin Laden wanted the world to know that the event that occurred on September 11 happens everyday in their countries. He also sent messages starting out with the fact that the Arab-Israeli conflict is the main cause for problems between Muslims and the Western people; these …show more content…
They do not own the land where the camps reside but the rights to use it; in addition, the conditions in these camps are poor due to a high population, which led many people to live in cramped conditions and lack basic services. Israel, on the other hand, believes in its right to its holy land dating back to the time of King David and King Solomon's times. They were allowed to create a country because the UN gave permission to the stateless nation after WW2 and the Holocaust, which killed millions of Jews. Israel has tried to come up with many peace offers to resolve the conflict; however, the other side kept rejecting their offers and constantly bombing Israel and their civilians. From the Israel's point of view, they only want to keep their land and protect themselves against terrorist attacks from