To what extent can Abu Nidal be considered a terrorist group?
Abu Nidal is a terrorist group that is known for its wide attacks on western Palestinian and Israeli targets in the 1980’s. The meaning of Abu Nidal is “father of the struggle”, this is the alias for Sabri al-Banna who founded the organization after he split with the PLO in 1974 because he accused the Palestinian liberation organization (PLO) of selling out by negotiating diplomatic relations with the state of Israel. They were trying to ruin the diplomatic relationship with the PLO and the west community. Abu Nidal wants to eliminate the state of Israel as a Jewish state and make the establishment of a Palestinian state. Abu Nidal has been on the United State of America terrorist list group for more than twenty years and in the mid 1980’s the terrorist group was considered as the most dangerous organistation. Abu Nidal was supported by Iraq, Syria and Libya by given the terrorist group training, funding and guns. Iraq helped Abu Nidal by attacking Syria and PLO in 1983.
Abu Nidal organistation named for its leader Sabri al-Banna who was born in 1937 in a family who lived in a British- ruled Palestine. In 1948 there was a Arab- Israeli war and Banna and his family fled heading towards the west bank. In two years’ time Sabri al-Banna would join the Arab nationalist Baath party in 1950, by the time 1967 came Sabri al-Banna would be involve with the PLO. Abu Nidal (Sabri al-Banna) was representing al-Fatah who was the dominant group of the PLO, which was led by Yasir Arafat. Abu Nidal left the PLO because of its proposed creation of national authority in west bank and Gaza strip .Abul Nidal is a non-religious international terrorist organization that was sponsored by S...
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... attacks that have shocked the international community. The main targets have been Israelis and PLO officials, also westerners were targets until late 1980’s. Abu Nidal strongly resisted against peace negotiations between Arab and Israeli. This resistance was throughout the United States, PLO; moderate Arab regimes in Jordan, Egypt and Persian Gulf states. They were trained by many countries such as Iraq, Syria and Libya which helped the organization get funding and logistical support. Abul Nidal didn’t always have successful terror operations but there were always some casualties in the terror events. Abu Nidal was looking at the plans and would go the other way of the PLO and this would create a high tension between the groups and some countries. Abu Nidal wanted to eliminate the state of Israel as a Jewish state and make the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Ibn Fadlan and al-Andalusi both travelled much of the same land. During their travels, they wrote down their experiences with other cultures. Despite the fact that their journeys were two centuries apart, they had many similarities as well as differences in their style of writing, interests, and religious interactions. The most prominent similarity is their relationship with Islam; both of them tried to convert the people they met to their religion and their religious customs. They also share similarities in what they choose to write down about a culture. However, Ibn Fadlan was far more interested in the rituals and customs of other cultures, whereas al-Andalusi chose to primarily focus on food, animals, and the resources of other civilizations. They also have distinct differences in how they interact with others and the style of their writing. Ibn Fadlan is far more active in his writing because he describes his judgments and writes more about himself. Conversely, al-Andalusi is more passive, and writes less about himself or his opinions.
In The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi, Farah suffers from coping with the Taliban in her daily life. Farah describes the Taliban as “a terrible army of big bearded boys” and “wild alien beings, or beasts from another world.” The group took all of Farah’s family away from her, and the Ahmedi family was just another unfortunate victim of the Taliban’s violence, when the group rose to power.
In 2005, the Palestinian director and writer, Hany Abu-Assad, released his award winning motion picture, “Paradise Now.” The film follows two Palestinian friends, over a period of two days, who are chosen by an extremist terrorist group to carry out a suicide mission in Tel-Aviv during the 2004 Intifada. The mission: to detonate a bomb strapped to their stomachs in the city. Because the film industry seldom portrays terrorists as people capable of having any sort of humanity, you would think the director of “Paradise Now” would also depict the two main characters as heartless fiends. Instead he makes an attempt to humanize the protagonists, Khaled and Said, by providing us with a glimpse into their psyches from the time they discover they’ve been recruited for a suicide bombing operation to the very last moments before Said executes the mission. The film explores how resistance, to the Israeli occupation, has taken on an identity characterized by violence, bloodshed, and revenge in Palestinian territories. Khaled and Said buy into the widely taught belief that acts of brutality against the Israeli people is the only tactic left that Palestinians have to combat the occupation. In an effort to expose the falsity of this belief, Hany Abu-Assad introduces a westernized character named Suha who plays the voice of reason and opposition. As a pacifist, she suggests a more peaceful alternative to using violence as a means to an end. Through the film “Paradise Now,” Abu-Assad not only puts a face on suicide bombers but also shows how the struggle for justice and equality must be nonviolent in order to make any significant headway in ending the cycle of oppression between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
In mid-November of last year amidst rising tensions in the Middle East, Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander, Ahmed Al-Jabari of Hamas in an air strike. This strike on a car carrying the commander stemmed the beginning to what is known by the Israeli’s as operation “Pillar of Defense”. Following this “surgical” assassination, the Israeli air force struck over 20 underground rocket launch sites belonging to Hamas (governing terrorist organization in Gaza) and the Islamic Jihad. According to Palestinian sources these strikes killed an additional six Palestinians.
Al-Qaeda is an Islamist group that was founded by Osama bin Laden in the 1980s. Al-Qaeda is the same group that carried out the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Al-Qaeda means "the base". In 2010, the Al-Qaeda magazine had a step by step guide to making a pressure cooker bomb. The brothers were planning to do some of the same acts in New York City.
This marked the beginning of the Palestine armed conflict, one of its kinds to be witnessed in centuries since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and World War 1. Characterized by a chronology of endless confrontations, this conflict has since affected not only the Middle East relations, but also the gl...
Although the Nation of Islam is most widely known for their outspoken leaders and aggressive methods, the Nation of Islam is one of the most important black activist groups of the 1960’s. In a matter of just a few years the Nation of Islam’s members had increased from 400 to 400,000 (Taylor par.19). During the 1960’s, the emergence of the Nation of Islam constituted a change in the minds of many African-Americans. Therefore, caused a major influence in the Civil Rights Movement.
This group was created in 1978 and continues to expand its power today. It began as a branch of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. This terrorist group has several goals ranging from creating a Islamic state to continuing the armed struggle against Israeli occupation of Palestine territories. Their acts of terrorism to date have included suicide bomb attacks against Israeli civilians to attacks on suspected Palestinian collaborators.
They are led by Louis Farrakhan, who some people think believes that white people were created 6,600 years ago by a renegade black scientist. They call them “blue-eyed devils” who prey on blacks. Southern Poverty Law Center. This is not all true. The Nation of Islam is a religious group who have their own views on things.
Al-Qaeda Introduction Al Qaeda is a terrorist organization established in Peshawar, Pakistan, between 1988 and 1989 by Osama bin Laden and his teacher Abullah Yusuf Azzam. Al-Qaeda is an international terrorist network that is considered the top terrorist threat to the United States. Al Qaeda is seeking to get rid of all westerns from Muslim territory and replace their own Islamic regime. They are a group of people who work together to plan acts of terrorism against Muslims and non-Muslims especially in the United States. Al Qaeda believes that they are fighting a holy war against the enemy of their religion.
After the 9/11 attack, Al Qaeda has surpassed as the world’s most infamous terrorist organization. Al Qaeda is the network organized by Osama bin Laden. Al Qaeda main goal was to drive all Americans and all American influences out of the Muslim nations. Al Qaeda has waged many attacks on the United States, and many other countries all around the world.
In Arabic, al Shabaab translates to "the youth." Reportedly, the members are characteristic as being young men in their early twenties. In addition, they are lacking adequate education and may have a criminal background. Recruitment in poor rural areas creates ample opportunties for them to enlist more support. It has been documented that al shabaab terrorist group are equipped with several thousand members along with a few hundred foreigners. (Zalman, Amy) Al Shabaab objective has been to spread Islamic rule in Somalia and to exterminate foreign influence. For the most part, they have conquered methods that are similar to Islamic militants in Afghanistan and Iraq which includes suicide bombings, small-arms attacks, road-side bombings an...
Letter to Any Would-be Terrorists by Naomi Shihab Nye is protest literature, targeting possible would-be terrorists with the main goal of fighting the discriminatory injustice faced by Arab-Americans following the action of some individual Arabs after 9/11. In her letter Naomi Shihab Nye describes how proud she thinks Arabs should be about their origins and using that feeling and idea, exhibits as an example her own family’s living style to show to her audience the immensity and richness of the Arab community. She thinks Arab definitively should be proud of their heritage. She talks about her Palestinian father who has been defying the word terrorist from the Arabic community to her American mother, who as she stat...
An example of dissent terrorism is the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PLO was a organization founded in 1964 at the first arab summit meeting in Cairo. It acted as an umbrella organization for many Palestinian groups. Although PLO’s main goal was liberating Palestine with armed struggle and getting rid of Zionism (the national movement for the return of the Jewish people in israel) in the Middle East, in 1967, PLO changed their primary goal focusing on destroying the State of Israel.
In early 1974, the Secretary General of the United Nations, U Thant, invited the Palestinian Liberation Organization to attend the General Assembly gathering on November 13, 1974, and in doing so gave legitimacy to the Palestinian Liberation Organization as a governing body. In Yasser Arafat’s speech to the General Assembly, he thanked the United Nations for recognizing his organization and its legitimacy. When Arafat addressed the General Assembly, he made the argument that the actions taken by his government were not acts of terrorism, but these were acts of revolution and their purpose was to regain control of Palestine’s occupied original territory. The problem we confront is, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism and the international community should be able to come up with one. The major hurdle in defining is the states’ ideas of what terrorism is.