al-Qaeda

Examples of al-Qaeda in the following topics:

• Sample Informative Speech

  • And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
  • In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support.
  • Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.
  • The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda...
  • And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates...

• The War on Terrorism

  • The campaign's official purpose was to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizations.
  • It was typically used with a particular focus on Al-Qaeda and other militant Islamists.
  • In February 1998, Osama bin Laden, as the head of al-Qaeda, signed a fatwā declaring war on the West and Israel, and later in May of that same year al-Qaeda released a video declaring war on the U.S. and the West.
  • The remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants fell back to the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, mainly Tora Bora.
  • The insurgency, which included al-Qaeda affiliated groups, led to far more coalition casualties than the invasion.

• The War on Terror

  • Originally, the campaign was waged against al-Qaeda and other militant organizations with the purpose of eliminating them.
  • In February 1998, Osama bin Laden signed a fatwā, as the head of al-Qaeda, declaring war on the West and Israel.
  • Bush delivered an ultimatum to the Taliban government of Afghanistan to turn over Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda leaders operating in the country or face attack.
  • The remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants fell back to the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, mainly Tora Bora.
  • The insurgency, which included al-Qaeda-affiliated groups, led to far more coalition casualties than the invasion.

• Terrorism

  • Well-known Islamic terrorist organizations include Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad.
  • The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, in which members of Al-Qaeda under the leadership of Osama bin Laden hijacked and crashed four passenger jets in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, left nearly 3,000 people dead.
  • These attacks marked the beginning of the "War on Terror," an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom (with the support of NATO and non-NATO allies) against Al-Qaeda and other associated militant organizations with the stated goal of eliminating them.

• September 11th and the War on Terror

  • On that Tuesday morning, 19 members of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets.
  • Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda, and in 2004, the group's leader Osama bin Laden, who had initially denied involvement, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
  • Al-Qaeda and bin Laden cited the United States's support of Israel, the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, and sanctions against Iraq as motives for the attacks.
  • The United States responded to the attacks by launching the "War on Terror" and invading Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, who were accused of harboring al-Qaeda.
  • For that purpose, the United States began transporting men suspected of being members of al-Qaeda to the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for questioning.

• Iraq

  • Some U.S. officials also accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda, but no evidence of a meaningful connection was ever found.
  • Violence against coalition forces and among various sectarian groups soon led to the Iraqi insurgency, strife between many Sunni and Shia Iraqi groups, and the emergence of a new faction of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

• Policy in the Middle East

  • In May of 2014, the coalition led by then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was able to win 92 of the 328 seats in parliament, and he seemed poised to begin another term as the country’s ruler.
  • In June 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a radical Islamist militant group consisting of mostly Sunni Muslims and once affiliated with al-Qaeda, launched a military offensive in Northern Iraq and seized control of Sunni-dominated areas of Iraq and Syria.
  • On June 29, 2014, it proclaimed the formation of the Islamic State with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as caliph, the state’s political and religious leader.
  • Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of the Islamist group al-Qaeda, was killed in Pakistan on May 2, 2011 by United States Navy SEALs of the U.S.
  • Al-Qaeda confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites, vowing to avenge the killing.

• Afghanistan

  • This major military operation was aimed at removing the Taliban government from power and capturing Al-Qaeda members, including Osama bin Laden himself.

• The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • When it became clear that the person behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentegon was Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi Arabian national who led the Islamic militant group al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, the full attention of the United States turned towards Central Asia and the Taliban.
  • In his address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, President Bush had declared war on terrorism, blamed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for the attacks, and demanded that the radical Islamic fundamentalists who ruled Afghanistan, the Taliban, turn bin Laden over or face attack by the United States.
  • By the late 1980s, the Soviets and the Americans had both left, although bin Laden, by that time the leader of his own organization, al-Qaeda, remained.
  • A faction within the Bush administration, sometimes labeled neoconservatives, believed Iraq’s recalcitrance in the face of overwhelming U.S. military superiority represented a dangerous symbol to terrorist groups around the world, recently emboldened by the dramatic success of the al-Qaeda attacks in the United States.
  • In 2007, President Bush increased the number of American troops in Iraq in order to provide security to Baghdad and Al Anbar Province.

• The George W. Bush Administration

  • After two vote recounts, Democratic presidential candidate and incumbent Vice President Al Gore filed a lawsuit for a third recount.
  • The Florida Secretary of State certified Bush as the winner of Florida, and Florida's 25 electoral votes gave Bush, the Republican candidate, 271 electoral votes, enough to defeat Al Gore.
  • In October of 2001, he ordered an invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda, and capture Osama bin Laden on the pretense that "weapons of mass destruction" were being hidden by these groups.