5). A power struggle ensued and anarchy reigned. The ISI, with the backing of the U.S. created the Taliban, a fundamentalist Islamic group that was promoted to help stabilize Afghanistan and its borders. By 2001, they would turn on both the ISI and United States (Roskin & Berry, 2010, p. 227). Another figure, Osama bin Laden also began his rise to power.
Bin laden was also very anti-Semitic with his hatred of the state of israel, and was against america support of israel and demanded the end of their relationship. his beliefs about islam were incredibly extreme, who refused to listen to music, and let children play with kites-something which was very popular in afghanistan, and even criticized Saudi arabia for not being islamic enough, naming afghanistan under taliban rule the only truly islamic country. This lead bin laden to be banned from entering saudi arabia, which only left him in
We sent troops to Afghanistan to bring down Osama bin Laden and the other al-Qaeda members, as well as helping the nation build a democratic leadership. With years of air strikes, bombs, and gunfire, we are starting to see al-Qaeda retreat, however their presence is still known. Our President Barack Obama has given us a round about time our troops will return home to American
Nine days after the attack on September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush released an ultimatum statement to the Taliban government of Afghanistan to turn Bin Laden over but the Talibans resisted and asked for evidence. The United States refused and subsequently sent the military to invade Afghanistan using orchestrated airstrike over targeted areas on October 7, 2001 along with the United Kingdom and other allies. This action is known as the “War on Terror”. The War on Terror, mainly focused on the invasion of Afghanistan to find and remove the Talibans. President Bush then signed the Patriot Act into law after receiving permission from the Congress.
These terrorists, known as the Taliban, were operating out of a base in Afghanistan and it was believed that the local government knew and approved of this activity. President Bush called for a war on terror and was determined to root out all forms of terrorism around the globe that had a perceived threat to our nation (Shultz, 2012). The U.S. invaded Iraq in order to prevent Al-Qaeda from securing a safe haven. Oil was another issue that could not be ignored. The oil in the Middle East fuels a large portion of the world’s economy and when there is a threat of militant Islamic Fascism anywhere in that region it becomes an issue of national security.
English II – Pre AP Summer Reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the intertwined stories of the lives of two Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, both married to the same abusive man, during the years of the Soviet occupation, then the civil war and the Taliban dictatorship I. Theme Analysis As you read A Thousand Splendid Suns log one quote to illustrate each of the following themes in the novel. You will need to interpret the quote and explain its impact on the plot. Theme/ Quote | Interpretation | Impact on Plot | Man’s inhumanity to man (quote) | What does the quote mean and how is it connected to the theme? | What is happening at this point in the story?
The Taliban believed that ruling an area must be done with violence and they imposed a strict version of Sharia Law, because of this the population of Kabul were terrified of them because of the strict and violence consequences if you did not obey to their rules. The Taliban then started making contact with the terrorist Osama Bin Laden who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the US. Because of this the Us then asked that the Taliban handed over Osama Bin Laden to which they refused, therefore an international coalition of forces invaded Afghanistan and then took back Kabul. However before these forces invaded Afghanistan there were no leadership at all which resulted in very low levels of political and human security. In late 2001 a democratic vote was held in which Hamid Khazai was elected president of Afghanistan, which therefore straight away helped the security of the area because there was a leader who would contribute to the development process.
Afghanistan has a long history with the United States, but reached its peak in September 11, 2001 when the world trade center was taken down. Fifteen out of 19 people involved were from Saudi Arabia, but America had intelligence that led them to believe Usama Bin Laden was responsible and he existed in in Afghanistan, so the Government was told to give him to the American Government for prosecution. The Taliban leader who ran the Afghanistan Government was Usama Bin Laden’s son-in-law and refused to give Usama Bin Laden to America, so America declared war on Afghanistan. This declaration of war was under the guise the Government supported terrorist actions against America, they wouldn’t release Usama Bin Laden and America was under constant
Using the above reasoning, the U.S. has encouraged extremist governments, toppled democracies, as in the case of Iran to replace it with a monarchy, rigged elections, and many more unspeakable political crimes for U.S. businesses abroad. Lets not also forget the Red Scare. During the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the U.S. armed and supported the Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim
In the 1980s, could the United States and others to cross forward and back between the gatherings financing the mujahideen, or Islamic blessed warriors further Stronger his good chance, both in the decade-long revolution against the Soviet nearness in Facility nations in the conditions based Afghanistan. The gather turned on each other among the common war after the achievement of the ultra-traditionalist Taliban rise in the late 1990s attack the nation for more than one. In 2001, the Taliban were immediately scared by the US-led international coalition, and regroup in the border areas between the heat conjoined countries have spent the past few years. Taliban attack on his supporters to dislodge American troops from Afghanistan, as well as to the Afghan, Pakistani and US governments. Afghanistan and Pakistan is a mixture of groups in Pakistan, and other nations, and organized and