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al-qaeda and the road to 9/11

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The Looming Tower , Al-Qaeda and the road to 9 /11

Introduction

American policies and decisions on the international level have always come under the scanner more times for controversies than appreciation the reason being the relentless use of devastating technology and force that has caused approximate ' disaster to their intended targets Approximate in terms of the leveling down of cities at a stretch and killings of innocent victims of the wars . Therefore , in this work , we will

focus ourselves to especially what has been the biggest (on the scale of aftereffects ) assertion of terrorist activity of the 21st century- Attack on World Trade Centre , U .S .A . on September 9 , 2001 (more commonly called as 9 /11 attack . Through the analysis of book : The Looming Towers , Al Qaeda and the road to 9 /11

These attacks (others were on the pentagon building and try fully on The White House ) are the effects of causes that can de dug out from as before as the peak of cold war between the soviets and the Americans

Concise History Related to the 9 /11 Attack

As a part of the cold war going on , the soviets feared that Afghanistan was being eyed by the U .S . as a stand point from where it can threaten Soviet Union 's mainland . Hence , reacting to this fear , the soviet army in 1979 moved with all the arms and ammunition into afghan land . The soviets were trying to force communism on the people of Afghanistan (in their bid to clear the region from any chance of it becoming U .S . military base that can pose threat to them . But the Afghans with America 's support of heavy artillery and millions of dollar funding fought back . The financial help from America was to ensure that without its direct intervention , the afghan mujahideen (who have a historic track record of fighting continuously and fiercely till death for their homeland are well equipped against the technologically advanced soviet tanks and fighter planes . American troops were not involved in this war (Meher , page 122 ) The American support came in disguise through other Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan (Meher , page 199 ) etc because the direct intervention of America could trigger the next world war . The afghan jihads resisted the soviets well above the expectation of U .S . which was matching their performance with ever increasing million dollars each year . Now with the initial strong opening to the war from the Afghans , the next step was to make the war sustainable from Afghanistan side . For that to happen , more and more Muslim volunteer jihadis were required to pick up arms and fight . The funding helped to create madrassas (Muslim schools of Islam thought which noticed Muslims turning up in large numbers and soon they were prepared with enough expertise to wage war . It was in these madrassas that Osama Bin Laden came to work as a volunteer in the war...

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