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Research suggests that al-Qaeda was formed on August 11, 1988, when a meeting in Afghanistan between leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Abdullah Azzam, and bin Laden took place. [17] The network was founded in 1988 [18] by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, [19] and other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War. [2]
Al-Qaeda defector al-Fadl, who was a former member of Qatar Charity, testified in court that Abdullah Mohammed Yusef, who served as Qatar Charity's director, was affiliated to al-Qaeda and simultaneously to the National Islamic Front, a political group that gave al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden harbor in Sudan in the early 1990s. [66]
Following their training at al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, they were chosen by Bin Laden and al-Qaeda's military wing due to their extensive knowledge of western culture and language skills, increasing the mission's operational security and its chances for success. Mohamed Atta himself was immediately given command over the planning ...
Planning of the September 11 attacks. On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners, intentionally crashing two into the World Trade Center in New York City. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
The September 11 attacks were carried out by 19 hijackers of the Islamist militant organization al-Qaeda. In the 1990s, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden declared a militant jihad against the United States, and issued two fatawa in 1996 and 1998. [2] In the 1996 fatwa, he quoted the Sword Verse.
Al-Qaeda gunmen stormed building complexes inhabited by Western expatriates, killing 39 people and wounding over 160. [21] The 2003 Casablanca bombings occurred on May 16, 2003, in Casablanca, Morocco. 45 people were killed as a result of these attacks (12 suicide-bombers and 33 victims). The 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on August 5 ...
Third Afghan Civil War X. Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari: احمد شاه مسعود, Persian pronunciation: [ʔæhmæd ʃɒːh mæsʔuːd]; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician. [ 4 ] He was a guerrilla commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afghan War from ...
The Osama bin Laden I Know. Peter Bergen 's The Osama bin Laden I Know ( ISBN 978-0-7432-7891-1) is a book published in 2006. It is a comprehensive collection of personal accounts by people who met Osama bin Laden or worked with him at various stages of his terrorist career.