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The following is a list of unsuccessful terrorist plots in the United States post-9/11. After the initiation of the Global War on Terrorism following the September 11 attacks in 2001, several terrorist plots aimed at civilian and military targets have failed to succeed. Many [quantify] such terrorism plots were created by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, with agents providing ...
Experts debate the notion that the al-Qaeda attacks were an indirect consequence of the American CIA's Operation Cyclone program to help the Afghan mujahideen. Robin Cook, British Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001, wrote in 2005 that al-Qaeda and bin Laden were "a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies", and claimed that "Al-Qaida, literally 'the database', was ...
Another key U.S. citizen in al-Qaeda's power structure was a man named Adnan Shukrijumah. Shukrijumah is believed to be the highest ranking American in al-Qaeda. [17] He was born in Saudi Arabia, grew up in Trinidad, and moved to Florida as a teenager; he was a naturalized American citizen and left the United States in the spring of 2001. [17]
The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
Aafia Siddiqui (also spelled Afiya; [8] Urdu: عافیہ صدیقی; born 2 March 1972) is a Pakistani neuroscientist [9] and educator who gained international attention following her conviction in the United States and is currently serving an 86-year sentence for attempted murder and other felonies at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in Fort Worth, Texas.
It was the deadliest foreign attack on American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and to this day remains the deadliest terrorist attack in human history. The attacks were conducted by al-Qaeda, acting in accord with the 1998 fatwa issued against the US and its allies by persons under the command of bin Laden ...
October 22 – Army Staff Sgt. George T. Alexander Jr., 34, of Killeen, Texas becomes the 2000th American death in Iraq (AP). U.S.-led forces reported killing 20 "terrorists suspected of sheltering al Qaeda in Iraq foreign fighters" in a series of raids on safe houses near Husaybah. [31]
After the Saudi government tightened its pursuit of AQBH, Al-Qaeda at the end of 2008 called on AQBH to exile to in Yemen, where the security was much weaker and where they would be able to recover. [104] Al-Qaeda of Saudi Arabia, and Al-Qaeda of Yemen, then merged and formed Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in January 2009. [105]