Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011) is perhaps the most influential and infamous terrorist leader in history. He originally became involved in the jihadist sphere when he traveled to Pakistan from his home in Saudi Arabia to help organize the mujahideen's fight against the Soviet invasion. He became an influential figure due to his extensive personal connections and also because he funded parts of the campaign directly with his family's wealth. In 1988, he founded Al Qaeda, intending for it to act as an organizational base for future jihadist campaigns. As Al Qaeda's leader, he oversaw numerous attacks against America and the West, including the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers. Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces in a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011.
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Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more
Baqiya wa Tatamadad
"Baqiya wa Tatamadad" is an Arabic phrase meaning "remaining and expanding," which became the slogan of the Islamic State after the collapse of the territorial caliphate. ISIS supporters will often add the phrase as a hashtag or... Read more