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Al-Qaeda planned to attack USS The Sullivans on January 3, 2000, but the effort failed due to too much weight being put on the small boat meant to bomb the ship. Despite the setback with USS The Sullivans, al-Qaeda succeeded in bombing a U.S. Navy warship in October 2000 with the USS Cole bombing, killing 17 sailors.
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 ...
al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Ansar Dine Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa Mali France: Defeat Bulo Marer hostage rescue attempt (11 January 2013) al-Qaeda. Al-Shabaab France: Victory Battle of Diabaly (14–21 January 2013) al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb Ansar Dine Mali France: Partial Defeat Battle of Safira
Al-Qaeda (/ æ l ˈ k aɪ (ə) d ə / ⓘ; Arabic: القاعدة, romanized: al-Qāʿidah, lit. 'the Base', IPA: [alˈqaː.ʕi.da]) is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.
Air Force One with President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton aboard was on its final approach to Manila on Nov. 23, 1996, when their U.S. Secret Service detail received alarming ...
Al-Qaeda attacks U.S. military forces for the first time in the Yemen hotel bombings in Aden. 26 Feb 1993 World Trade Center. New York City, New York, U.S. Ramzi Yousef carries out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. 3-4 Oct Mogadishu, Somalia, Horn of Africa: 18 American servicemen are killed by al-Qaeda-trained forces in the Battle of ...
8 November 2003 – Al Qaeda bomb the Muhaya residential compound in west Riyadh during Ramadan, killing seventeen people and wounding over a hundred. Most of the victims are Muslims. [4] Early March 2004 – Al Qaeda's plans to carry out a much larger co-ordinated bomb attack in Riyadh's diplomatic quarter are thwarted by a series of raids and ...
After the September 11 attacks in the United States, U.S. President George W. Bush demanded the Taliban government to hand over al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden and close all terrorist training camps in the country, which the Taliban refuses the following day for lack of evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11 attacks. [25] 7 October