Did the U.S. help create Al Qaeda an anti-American terrorist group responsible for multiple attacks on U.S. Soil? In Soviet Afghan war the United States backed resistance fighters to fight against the USSR. After the war some of these fighter went on to create the Taliban, and Al Qaeda. In this paper I will write about how backing the resistors in afghanistan came back to bite the United States in the butt. In the 70’s Russia was providing millions to Afghanistan’s government. In 1973 Mohammad Daud overthrew King Zahir of Afghanistan, by a military coup. Mohammad Daud’s revolt relied on being pro-Soviet, and in support of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Daud isn't have the same views as all of the PDPA, so it split …show more content…
The mujahideen means “fighters of faith”. The mujahideen who saw the non-Islamic soviets helping control Afghanistan gained the support of the Islamic culture when they declared holy war, or Jihad. After the war the United States left the mujahideen, trained and armed jihadists in power. The taliban was created by Mullah Mohammad Omar, a form mujahideen freedom fighter. The taliban rose to power in Afghanistan with support from the bordering Pakistan, who provided money to the Taliban. The Pakistani government started to help the Taliban provide airports, telephones, electricity, and radio in southern Afghanistan, because the Pakistan was struggling with trade to Central Asia. Osama Bin laden came from Saudi Arabia in 1980 and started fighting with the mujahideen. After the war was over Bin Laden created the terrorist group Al Queda. In 1996 the Taliban agreed to take in and protect Osama Bin Laden after he was exiled from Sudan for his terroristic behaviors. In return for his protection Bin Laden used his money to help the Taliban. With his influence of the Taliban controlled government Bin Laden could open training camps to grow Al Queda. After the taliban found it hard recruiting Afghani men to its military, Bin laden and Pakistan provided men for them. In 2001 the United States invaded Afghanistan, because they were protecting Osama Bin Laden. To this daytime United
The war in Afghanistan sparked numerous operations conducted by the U.S. military and its coalition forces. One of the most influential operation until today was Operation Anaconda. Fought in the Shahi-Kot Valley during early march 2002, it was the largest American battle since the Gulf War, and their first high altitude battle ever encounter. The goal of the Operation Anaconda was to eradicate the remaining Taliban and al Qaeda foothold within the eastern region of Afghanistan. Although, originally intended to last three days, Operation Anaconda lasted seventeen days instead, with seven days of intense battle. The U.S. operation Commander, Major General Franklin Hagenbeck, schemed the “hammer and anvil” plan in order to achieve his objective. However, this plan
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the United States was incredibly eager to strike back at the nations thought to be responsible for this horrific tragedy. These attacks were quickly attributed to the terrorist group al-Qa’ida, led by Osama bin Laden, and to the Taliban-run government of Afghanistan, which had provided sanctuary to al-Qa’ida. In response, Washington approved a covert plan led by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to directly attack those responsible in their Middle East safe haven. Initiated on 26 September 2001 with the approval of the warlords of the Afghan Northern Alliance, with whom the CIA had formed an intelligence liaison relationship, Operation Jawbreaker resulted in the fall of the Taliban regime, the killing and capture of a significant amount of al-Qa’ida leadership, and elimination of a terrorist safe haven by early December 2001. Moreover, the Taliban’s collapse denied al-Qa’ida a pseudo-nation-state partner, serving to reduce the organization’s sanctuary to areas residing along the Pakistani border. Operation Jawbreaker, one of the first post-9/11 covert operations carried out by the United States in support of its national security interests, had proved successful. Word of the operation’s swift success astounded those back in Washington; dubbed the CIA’s “finest hour,” it signified the first of many victories by deposing the Taliban’s control of Northern Afghanistan.
On December 24th 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On that day began a war which wreaked incredible havoc and destruction on Afghanistan for 10 long years. The Soviets stormed in with thousands of troops at the request of the troubled Afghan Communist regime. The Russians believed this be a neat surgical military operation. They were wrong.(Boggs) The only resistance to the Soviet invasion were men known as the "mujahideen" known to many as freedom fighters. They are multinational; some even from America, doing everything in their power to repeal the Soviet horde. The Soviet invasion frightened neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, so they unofficially allied with the United States. The U.S. provided the weaponry, training, etc., Saudi Arabia recruited the fighters (mujahideen) which were sometimes based in Pakistan. They all agreed on the need for armed resistance against the Soviets. The U.S. decided to tap the religious vein of the rebels, creating a zealous religiously driven guerrilla organization; well armed and trained by CIA officers with the goal of returning Afghanistan to Islamic purity.
In addition, in the conclusion, there will be a summary of the article and some recommendations for further research in order to complete the understanding of the Afghani Mujahideen insurgency. II. Purpose and Motivation Understanding the purposes and motivation of any non-state insurgent group is the key to defeating them. Misunderstanding them very likely leads to failure. However, the organization of non-state insurgent groups is fluid, which means that the purpose of its fighting is also often changing rapidly.
The Mujahdeen declared jihad, a holy war, on the Amin government, which included Russia. The Soviet Union took action on December 27th, 1979, by murdering Amin and appointing Kamal Barbak to lead Afghanistan. Many countries were disapproving of Russia's actions and in their perspective, felt that it was both inappropriate and unnecessary in Russia's involvement. The United Nations, an international organization to sustain peace, promote social progress, and to create friendly relations between nations, condemned the Soviet Union's actions in January 1980.... ...
Certain revolutions in Afghanistan occurred between 1978 and 2001 which caused the US War with Afghanistan. The United States helped Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel by giving them military weapons and, as a result, the Soviet Union viewed this as if the United States was trying to have power over the Middle East. After the collapse of the Soviet regime in Afghanistan, Afghan socialists fought over power, which led to the creation of Taliban by Mullah Omar, a religious preacher who taught in Pakistan. During Mullah Omar’s time, Osama Bin-Laden came to Afghanistan and he ...
Soviet-Afghan War is one of those wars that left all the civilians in distraught as they lost everything. But first, What was the Soviet-Afghan War? It was around Dec. 1979, when the Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan. A year before Afghanistan was invaded, around spring of April 1978, Pres. Mohammad Daud Khan, Afghanistan's centrist government, was dethroned by Nur Mohammad Taraki, one of the left wing military officers. After the overthrown of the president, Afghanistan's power was divided by two individual Marxist-Leninist political group. One group is the People's (Khalq) and the
Within weeks after the invasion, the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan would be ousted from the region and replaced by Soviet forces. Soviet forces would next encounter an enemy that hid in the mountains and fought with guerrilla tactics. This Muslim rebellion group is known as the Mujahideen. The Mujahideen opposed the Soviets and Karmal government because both supported a communist government which rejected religion and wanted to modernize the government away from Muslim tradition that involved government and religion together.... ...
Al Qaeda is leading by Osama bin laden that was born and grown up in Saudi Arabia; his family was very rich and respected by Saudi Royal household and the public. When he finished his University in Saudi Arabia, he becomes an extreme religious person. Osama started to help Islamist movement against communist in Yemen (Gunaratna, 2005) . In December 1997 when Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan he went to Pakistan and then Afghanistan to help Afghan group to protect it from Soviet Union. At the time a Palestinian Jordanian, Dr Abdullah Azzam esta...
Canada has played a vital role in international relations for the majority of its 144 year history since the signing of Confederation in 1867. Canada first participated in World War I, then World War II in 1939-1945. Following World War II, Canada was also involved in the Korean War. Canada has been primarily a peacekeeping nation. There are many questions people ask when a high income country goes to help a lower income nation such as Afghanistan. What are Canada’s motives for helping out Afghanistan? Who will benefit from Canada going to war in Afghanistan? These are some of the questions many people have. While Canada has many domestic problems of its own such as homelessness, poverty and increasing national debt, why should Canada get involved with a problem that is across the globe? Are the costs of going to war out weight the political benefits? Modernity, modernization theory and gender stratification are some key concepts that are related to Canada going to war in Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda, translated as “the base”, was led by Osama Bin Laden, who at the time, was operating from Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda’s beginnings can be traced as far back as 1979 when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Fearing that the takeover would establish a nonreligious government in the country,
The Soviet-Afghan war was a long lasting war that did not end in any sort of change. The parties that were fighting in the war were The Soviet army, an insurgent group called mujahideen, and the Democratic republic of Afghanistan. The reason the war did not end in any sort of change is because after a certain amount of time it became a quagmire with roughly 2 million casualties and no progress made with any group.
“The Only Enemy an Afghan cannot defeat is himself.” - a thousand splendid suns. Afghanistan has been war torn by centuries of constant invasions and war. Afghanistan has become so used to war they have become accustomed to it, this has lead to Afghanistan's constant struggle. Many things in Afghanistan lead to war there. Terrorist groups such as the Taliban occupy much of Afghanistan and enforce inhumane laws. Afghanistan struggles from extreme poverty, this leads to many people becoming homeless. All of these problems keep this beautiful place from developing into a working country.
Afghanistan has many cultures and traditions based on their religions. All of the religions pray five times each day facing the city Mecca or Mekkah. The religions are Sunni Muslim with eighty percent, Shi’a Muslim with nineteen percent and other religions equal one percent. Most of the Afghans follow the Islam religion; it dominates most of the personal, political, economic and legal lives. The men and women do not shake hand or even look at the eyes. Fridays are holy days, most of the shops and offices are closed.The two official languages are Persian (Dari) with fifty percent and Pashtu with thirty-five percent, other languages equal fifteen percent. The most popular ethnic groups are Pashtun with forty-two percent, Tajik with twenty-seven percent, Hazara with nine percent , Uzbek with nine percent also, Aimak with four percent, Turkmen with a three percent, Baloch with two percent and all the minor groups together equal four percent.
Afghanistan is a country that has had a long and interesting history. The countries geography is quite