Status and Power -- Terrorism Essay

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In that regard, one of the most dramatic uses of this tactic enabled the Bush administration to obtain congressional authority to initiate a war against Iraq based on what were later proven to be deliberate falsehoods (BBC/Curtis, 2004).

Ironically, the fictional and manipulative elevation of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden to such levels of importance in the ideological war against the West may have actually played a substantial role in increasing the importance, the influence, and the ability of each to attract more followers (BBC/Curtis, 2004). The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan also seems to have undermined the effort against al-Qaeda by helping to transform what had been an isolated civil war in that country into a region supporting bin Laden today (BBC/Curtis, 2004).

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Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya was originally an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood; it was the largest militant group in Egypt and once hoped to overthrow the Egyptian secular government to replace it with a religious Islamic state (Keats/CDI, 2002). Like the radical Taliban in Afghanistan, the Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya believes in building an orthodox Muslim state through violent "jihad." Their spiritual leader is Sheikh Omar Abdel al-Rahman, "the blind cleric" currently in federal prison serving a life sentence for the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 1993......

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