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Al-Qaeda
Pan-Islamic Sunni Jihadist organization (established 1988)
For other uses, see Al-Qaeda (disambiguation).
Al-Qaeda | |
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Flag used by various Al-Qaeda factions | |
Founder | Osama bin Laden X |
Leaders | |
Dates of operation | August 11, 1988 – present |
Allegiance | Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1995–present)[1] |
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Ideology | |
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Battles and wars | |
Designated as a terrorist group by | See below |
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Al-Qaeda (; 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.[110][111] Its membership is mostly composed of Arabs but also includes people from other ethnic groups.[112] Al-Qaeda has mounted attacks on civilian, economic and military targets of the U.S. and its allies; such as the 1998 US embassy bombings, the USS Cole bombing, and the September 11 attacks.
The organization was founded in a series of meetings held in Peshawar during 1988, attended by Abdullah Azzam
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Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden 1844670457, 9781844670451
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DESPITE THE SATURATION OF GLOBAL .
media coverage, Osama bin Laden’s own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the “war on terror.” Over the last ten years, bin Laden has issued a series of carefully tailored public statements, from letters and faxes to video recordings and interviews with Western and Arab journalists. These texts supply evidence crucial to an understanding of the bizarre mix of Quranic
scholarship,
CIA training,
punctual
interventions in Gulf politics and messianic anti¬ imperialism that has formed the programmatic core of al-Qaeda. In bringing together the various statements issued under bin Laden’s name over the last decade, this volume forms part of a growing discourse that seeks to demythologize the terrorist network. Newly trans¬ lated from the Arabic, and annotated with a critical introduction by Islamic scholar Bruce Lawrence, this collection places the statements in their religious, historical, and political context. It shows how bin Laden's views draw on and differ from other strands of radical Islamic thought; it also demonstrates how his arguments vary in degrees of consistency, and how his evasi