Al-Qaeda in Iraq

The Involvement of Iraq is a Lesson the US Need to Learn Since the end of World War II, the US have been intervening on the region and country of the Middle East more than anywhere else in the world. Americans consider the Middle East as a luxurious region to settle due to the high quantity of oil found in that region. Despite the vast amount of economic and political change to many Arab country doing that period, The US created different foreign policy. These different policies have seemed as if these Arab countries were the puppet and the US are there master. As of Today, The US had intervened two different type of war in the Middle East. The first one was trying to stop the Soviets from spreading communism into Arab country. The second being the war on terror and war to overthrow dictatorship government. Yet despite all these involvements, Many Americans starts to raise question about our foreign policy of the Middle East. Critics think that we are too overly involve the different type of war that has happen in the Middle East. Today, The Syrian War is the latest dilemma of yet another political change in the Arab country and a war on terror. Many Americans think the US should not intervene with Syria and sent Military action to deal with the Syrian War. I strongly…

Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society”-Patrick J. Kennedy. Patrick J Kennedy was an American politician that was born on July 14, 1967. In this quote Kennedy is describing the word terrorism in a way that if looked up in a dictionary, will have another meaning and state the intentions of the terrorist. ISIS: The State of Terror by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger is a book about a terroristic group from the Islamic state…

terrorist group that was barely nothing that grew up to be a big problem. They need now get as big as they did until they went to Syria. In 2011, The American troops left the country of Iraq after an 8-year war. They thought it was a good idea and also thought the Iraq could stand on there two feet again. I think that bringing the American troops out of Iraq was a bad idea, if they would have stayed longer maybe the ISIS group would have never gotten huge. A speaker in the video The Rise of Isis…

Knights represents a jihadists policy document that discusses the importance of narrative to inspire the Umma by refraining from the extreme purist views of Qutb. He does not seek to refute these views, but he is careful to note that generating support from the Muslim masses is a critical component to the success of jihad. His book also serves as a signal that Al Qaeda was taking the role of the vanguard element within Islam that Qutb spoke of in his book Milestones. However, the various calls…

About 500 Yezidis and buried some alive, while killing others in a mass execution. The aim of ISIS is to create an Islamic state across the Sunni areas of Iraq and Syria. ISIS is known for conducting mass public executions, crucifixions to non-Muslims such as Jews, Catholics and Christians. Over the past year ISIS militants have taken control of a large part of northern and western Iraq and some parts of Syria. At first ISIS was a part of Osama Bin Laden’s notorious terrorist group Al-Qaeda.…

ISIS- Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, once called the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham, is a group of men, women, and children whom believe they are trying to change the world to a better place and change the political geography. They have been compared to Al-Qaeda also, but in reality they are much worse and much more destructive than Al-Qaeda ever was. ISIS has taken Al-Qaeda’s beliefs and amplified them to a radicalism. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is the man responsible for starting Isis. In…

effects of other jihadist groups on the recruitment of AQ and the extent to which, if at all, competition between AQ and these other jihadist groups can push AQ into carrying a spectacular terror attack that would in turn make it vulnerable. Effects of ISIL and other Jihadist Groups on the Recruitment of AQ Although ISIL and AQ may have started out as the same outfit with the former being know as Al Qaeda in Iraq, the two have parted ways at least within the Syrian context. The two one-time…

unintended consequences. No matter how cautious generals and political leaders are, war sets in motion waves of change that can alter the currents of history” (Tirman 45). The United States involved itself in an ongoing conflict that has spanned from Crusades to the colonization by the European powers. When the United States pulled out of Iraq in December 2011, a splinter group of Al qaeda headed by Abu Musab al Zarqawi attacked major Shia communities to ignite a sectarian war. Due to the Iraqi…

ISIS is an expansion of ISI (Islamic State in Iraq) and is working in both Iraq and Syria. Just until two years ago, ISIS had been a subsided group of al-Qaeda. They are now becoming rivals of al-Qaeda. ISIS is a very specific Islamic group that wants to use force and military power to change the beliefs of the Middle East. They use views of pure religion to raise large amounts of money from donors and use that money to recruit soldiers from all over the world to help Islam. ISIS is a mafia-like…

caliphate in Syria and Iraq, the debate to know how to call the group continues. The world would have to call them the “Islamic State” in respect of the caliphate they have avowed, if it were up to them. The US Governments and the British are using the ISIL acronym, whereas the name ISIS is more frequently seen. In addition to the confusion, the French said they would use the Arabic-derived word “Daesh” to replace EIIL, the former name. The four competing words are only a minority of those used…