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1Darryl Worley Have you forgotten
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vp6yLQRF-cEU
- 4 min
2September 11, 2001The Day that changed America
- Casey Young
- POL 650
- Dr. Shawn Williams
- July 19, 2012
3Alan Jackson Song
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfvj6zdWLUuk
- 5 min
4The Day Tuesday, September 11th
5The Group Responsible World Islamic Front for
Jihad against Jews and Crusaders
- AKA Al-QaedaThe Base
- Founder Osama Bin Laden
- Ideological and current Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Major Base Afghanistan
- Founded Late 1980s
- Zawahiri joined Bin Laden in 1998
- Took responsibility for 9/11 attacks which lead
American into a war with Afghanistan
6Al Qaeda
- Al Qaeda is the first truly global terrorist
organization in history (Riedel, pg. ix) - Had a new idea multiple opeartions in different
locales carried out at the same time (Riedel, 60).
7The Brains and IdeologicalDr. Ayman al-Zawahiri
- Born June 19, 1951 in Cairo, Egypt
- Defining moment Sadats assassination (Riedel,
19) - Head of Islamic Jihad (or Al-Jihad)
- Not very charismatic
- Became leader of Al Qaeda after bin Laden death
and still on the run.
8Zawahiris Ideology
- Not a hatred for Western culture or values,
rather his ideology focuses on what he believes
the West has dont to the Islamic world, to the
ummah. It is about policy, not values (Riedel,
22-23) - Sees the plot against Islam on every front,
fomented by the United States and Europe in the
west, Israel nearby, and India in the east
(Riedel, 29). - Key element to his plan is jihad every Muslim is
duty-bound to fight against the enemies of Islam,
including the unbeliever and the corrupt
followers who ally themselves with the enemy.
9The Sheik, Founder, and Financial Backer and
Charismatic leader Osama Bin Laden
10Usama Bin Laden
- Born January 22, 1958 in Riyadh, SA 17th son.
Osama means the Lion. Moved to Medina _at_ age of
6 months. - By July 1958, M. Bin Laden had fathered 41
children 21 sons at least 20 daughters. - Mother Alia Ghanem, 14 year old from Syria.
Citrus farming family. 10th wife. - Was a possible maid or concubine.
- Same Islamic Year M. Bin Laden fathered 5 sons
and 2 daughters under two different wives.
11Mohamed Bin Laden
12M. Bin Laden Financial Empire
- Bin Laden Affiliated Companies
- Binladen Kaiser engineering construction
- Binladen Emco pre-cast concrete
- Al-Midhar Telecommunications Company consulting
- Bin Laden Telecom Company
- Binladen Brothers for Contracting Industry
- Saudi Binladin Group registered in 1990 with
over 36,000 employees in 30 countries
13Mosque Renovations
- Prophets mosque in medina
14Holy Site Renovations
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Dome of the Holy Rock
15M. Bin Laden The Player
16The Bin Laden's
17September 3, 1967
- M. Bin Ladens plane crashes along the Saudi
Yemen border. - Pilot Jim Harrington, former US Air Force
fighter pilot. Two other passengers onboard. - Previously flew a 7 passenger Twin Beech
propeller. Switched to a Hawker Siddeley
twin-engine jet.
18The Aftermath of the Plane Crash
- Mohammed Bin Laden Organization
- No known record on the size of the estate.
- Estimated - 150 million
- Kingdom outstanding debts to M. Bin Laden
estimated to be 100 million in payments. - Saudi Government sets up trust fund for children.
19 Inheritance
- Sharia Law sons to receive twice as much as the
daughters. - 4 current wives at the time of death to split 1/8
of the shares. Former wives to receive no
inheritance, however their children would. - Sons, to include Osama, to receive 2.27 of the
companys shares. Roughly 20 million each. - Daughters to receive roughly 1
- Total inheritance breakdown
- Sons 50
- Daughters 30
- Current Widows Rest of the shares.
20Bin Ladens rage against America
- One can ask, at this point, whether 9/11 or some
similar tragedy might have happened without bin
Laden to steer it. The answer is certainly not
(Wright, pg. 332). - He saw it (America) as the vanguard of a global
crusade on the part of Christians and Jews to
crush the Islamic resurgence (Wright, 208). - This battle is not between al-Qaeda and the
U.S., bin Laden would later explain. This is a
battle of Muslims against the global Crusaders
(Wright, 209). - But the greatest disaster to befall the Muslims
is the occupation of Saudi Arabi, which is the
cornerstone of the Islamic world, the place of
revelationwas sold out to the Israelis and
Americans (Riedel, 57).
21Bin Laden on the Palestine Question
- The main root of the conflict between our
civilization and your civilization is the
Palestine question. I stress that the Palestine
question is my nations central issue. It was,
therefore, a key factor that has, since my
childhood, provided me and the free 19 men with
an overwhelming feeling of the need to punish the
Jews and those supporting them. This is why the
incidents of September 11th took place (Riedel,
130).
22President Obama on Bin Laden Death
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?v3V0ISgosTlQ
- Start at 15 seconds
23Time Magazine Bin Laden
24Red X Has Happen three other times
- Adolph Hitler Sadam Hussein Musab
al-Zarqawi
25The Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM)
- Mastermind behind 9/11
- Had planned to blow up jumbo jets with his cousin
Ramzi Yusuf across the Pacific - Bin Laden heard of this idea and had KSM tweak it
to make it feasable - Captured in Pakistan in 2003 and has been a key
contributor for helping stop terrorists
26Pre-Attacks by Al Qaeda
27WTC 1993 Bombings
- February 26, bombed planted in Ryder Truck in
garage of North Tower - Ramzi Yousef
- 6 people killed and around 1,000 wounded
28Bombing of the USS Cole
- October 12, 2000
- Claimed by Al Qaeda
- Killed 17 and wounded 40
- The destroyer represented the capital of the
West, Bin Laden said, and the small boat
represented Mohammad (Wright, pg.319). - America did not retaliate, and bin Laden felt he
needed to do something bigger
29The Manhattan Raid
- Al Qaeda called 9/11 the Manhattan Raid (Riedel,
pg. 1) - Possibly wanted Eastern and Western attacks but
felt it was too risky, so decided to stick only
with the East. - Decided to target 4 major targets of
significance - World Trade Center (Economic strength)
- Pentagon (Military strength)
- White House? (governmental/Democracy)
309/11 How it unfolded
- http//www.cnn.com/video//video/us/2011/09/07/nat
pkg-911-aircheck-timeline.cnn - CNN (9 min)
31World Trade Center Videos
- http//www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/09/11/coo
per-911-wtc-history.cnn/video/us/2011/09/11/coope
r-911-wtc-history.cnn - CNN World Trade Center Video
321) The World Trade Centers
- Opened in 1973, 7th building finished in 1987
- Was made up of 7 buildings
- Towers 1 and 2 (Twin Towers) stood as world
tallest buildings (110 stories) - Cost was 400 million
- 50,000 people worked in the towers, 200,000
passed through - Had its own zip code 10048
- 2,753 people died in attacks, 343 firefighters
and 23 NYPD
33Construction of WTC in 1971
34Design of WTC Twin Towers
35Top of the World Observation Deck80,000 visitors
a year
36(No Transcript)
37Bin Laden on WTC
- Such momentous constructions are bound to intrude
on the subconscious, as they are meant to
dothose awesome symbolic towers that speak of
liberty, human rights and humanityas bin Laden
labeled them. - Looming Tower (pg. 176)
38Planes crashing into WTC
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vqNw0jOhVJ3A
- Firefighter video (1st tower)
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXELamUnF0EU
- Second tower video
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vJzKI9TBR-XQ
- People jumping from WTC (start at 150)
39Plane hitting the Pentagon
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vZaPoD_7TmNc
- Hits pentagon at 25 seconds
40The 19 Hijackers
41The 20th HijackerZacarias Moussaoui
- Went to flight school in Minnesota in 2001 and
alerted the flight school after strange questions
about flying. - Captured by FBI, but not allowed to thoroughly
check his belongings or would have probably made
connection. - FBI supervisor responded that he was trying to
keep somone from taking a plane and crashing into
the World Trade Center (Wright, 351).
42Bushs speech after 9/11
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vXbqCquDl4k4feature
related - 4 ½ minutes
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vBQAeeimx3S4
- Bush declares war on Terror
439/11 New Release Tapes
- http//www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/09/08/tsr
-todd-911-audio-recordings.cnn/video/us/2011/09/0
8/tsr-todd-911-audio-recordings.cnn - CNN Video
44Remembering and Rebuilding
- Building 5 new towers
- Tallest is One World Trade Center, measuring
1,776 feet (tallest in North America) - Also a Memorial and Museum
45Tensions between the FBI and CIA
- January meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was
photographed and surveillance but not wiretap.
Meeting produced USS Cole bombing and 9/11
attacks (Wright, 310-311) - CIA failed to let FBI or State Department know
about two terrorists from Malaysia meeting needed
to be put on terror list or had entered the
country 19 months before 9/11 (Wright, 311-312) - CIA found laptop of Zawahiris closest political
confidant in Azerbaijan, but would not turn it
over to the FBI
46Possible Reasons Why? (Wright, 312-314
- Sensitive information from the CIA may compromise
their work with FBI, which could demand total
control of a situation - CIA was hoping to recruit some of the terrorists
and use them against Al Qaeda - FBI wanted to capture bin Laden for questioning
CIA wanted to kill bin Laden before he became too
big a threat
47How America has changed since 9/11?
- Delays at the airport are longer, arrival time is
earlier, and items being carried on are smaller
(Fear of flying) - Created a new cabinet department (Homeland
Security, 2001) - Declared a War on Terrorism that took us into
Afghanistan and then into Iraq - Repression of freedom exchanged for control of
security, especially against suspected terrorists
(Patriot Act) - Fear/Misunderstandings of Radical Muslims or
anyone who might be from the Middle East
48Work Cited Page
- Some pictures, information, and slides came from
professor Max Wise class
49Resources and Books
- The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
- The 9/11 Commission Report
- American Foreign Policy in a New Era by Robert
Jarvis - The Search for Al Qaeda by Bruce Riedel
- Mastermind (KSM) by Richard Miniter