Osama Bin Laden

Bin Laden: Osama Style

Alex Etienne

           

Obviously, in the past 5-10 years, a man by the name of Osama Bin Laden has been an enemy and simply a scare for the American people as a whole.  Whether it was the attacks on 9/11 or the various threats produced from the Middle East via a group referred to as “Al Qaeda”, we as American citizens have had to remain on our toes and have total awareness of this man and his actions.  But, who is he?  Why would he want to attack the United States of America?  I am going to take an in-depth look at how it all began, years ago, and then how it dramatically all came to an end.

            I chose to write about Osama Bin Laden for multiple reasons.  First, I myself have always been extremely curious as to how the whole situation began.  Osama Bin Laden was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets.  He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.  Essentially, the al-Qaeda leader was motivated by a belief that U.S. foreign policy has oppressed, killed, or otherwise harmed Muslims in the Middle East, condensed in the phrase "They hate us for what we do, not who we are." 

            Personally, I feel that this subject is extremely important considering the amount of lives taken by this man and his people.  On September 11, 2001, a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. areas occurred, killing nearly 3,000 people.  Suspicion quickly fell on al-Qaeda, and in 2004, the group's leader Osama bin Laden, who had initially denied involvement, claimed responsibility for the attacks.  In my opinion, a man who seeks out to kill a mass quantity of people all at one time is a cold blooded killer who does not deserve to live.  Obviously, the United States felt the same way as he was recently executed.  But, those facts aside, the sole reason that the typical American citizen had to sleep with one eye open for ten years after these attacks because nobody knew what could possibly be coming next from this man is reason enough to be fully aware of him and his antics. 

            Finally, who will I be writing this for?  What audience/group of people would find the most interest in this?  I am writing this for whoever was mentally destructed on the day of September 11, 2001.  Which, if you were an average American who was aware of what was happening, then you can fully remember and relate to the way I felt.  Now that Osama is deceased, we can comfortably talk about who he was and his motives.  But, this could also possibly assist you in knowing more about his group of murderers and what they could potentially attempt to do in the future, and how we can be prepared for it.