Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda is an international terrorist network founded by Osama Bin Laden in 1988. Al Qaeda helped in recruiting, financing and training thousands of fighters from different parts of the world to be part of an Afghan resistance to defeat the Soviet Union. Al Qaeda’s goal is to establish Islamic Caliphate throughout the world by working with Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes they consider to be non Islamic. Al Qaeda’s activities include bombing, assassination, hijacking, kidnapping and suicide attacks. Al Qaeda is responsible for the attacks on the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 1998 and also the hijacking attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.[7]    

 

 

 

[7] Al Qaeda. Retrieved on June 26th 2015. Retrieved from http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-qaida.htm