Al-Qaeda vs Hamas

by Wyatt Defelice, June 2014

900 words

3 pages

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The problem of terrorism is the most vital in the world, and much attention of the world’s publicity is riveted on this issue. Moreover, people are not only involved into the process of different military operations directed at the decrease of terrorists groups; they respond and act on it in different ways.

On September 11, 2001, the United States experienced the biggest attack on American Land since Pearl Harbor. Ever since that famous day 10 years ago, there were a lot of questions left unanswered. There are large numbers of people all over the world that truly believe that the US government had something to do with those attacks, or at least knew about them prior to the actual event. According to the official version, on September 11, 2001, the terrorist Osama Ben Laden stole four air liners and put a lethal blow to the Western world. Two planes rammed the well-known New York towers-twins and destroyed them. The third one ran into a building of headquarters of the US Ministry of Defense - the Washington Pentagon. The last air liner fell in a deserted part of the Pennsylvania State, in 150 miles to the north from the capital after that the flight’s passengers tried to resist to skyjackers. As a result of these attacks about three thousands of private soldiers and innocent Americans died; this is the reason why the US president George Bush declared a global war against terror.

There are a lot of disputes about the actual causes of the collapse of two towers-twins in New York and other events in America on 9/11. The only true official version is the fact that terroristic attacks were made by Al Qaida.

“If Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hamas are truly a threat to the West and its allies, clearly the West has only itself to blame. The West has been, and to this day still is propping these extremist groups up - so much so that their credibility across the Muslim World has begun to falter” (Cartalucci, 2012).

Al-Qaida is an International Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and Crusaders; the word “Al-Qaida” means “basis” from the Arabic language. The organization has an extensive network of branches in many countries of the world. Except terrorism, the organization conducts continuous activities for the creation of new Islamic formations and radicalization of already existing ones. The main goal of the organization is an overthrow of the secular regimes in the Arabic countries and establishment of a theocratic system with the norms of Shariat, and consolidation of all Muslim countries into one Caliphate in a long-term perspective. (Global Security, 2012).

The organization also seeks to counteract the distribution of the presence and influence of the western countries, especially the USA, in the region and worldwide, considering a western civilization to be corrupted and defective. Al-Qaida seeks to expel the armed forces of the USA from the territory of the Persian Gulf states, …

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