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...Manfred B. Steger Abstract Commenting on the remarkable convergence of religion and ideology in the global age, this article utilizes the method of morphological discourse analysis to examine and map the conceptual structure of al Qaeda’s Islamist globalism. Identifying a number of crucial concepts...

... on terror" had failed to weaken its prime target al Qaeda. On average only 22°10 believe that al Qaeda has been weakened, while three in five believe that it has either had no effect (29°10) or made al Qaeda stronger (30°10). Even in the United States only 34°10 believe al Qaeda has been weakened. Some 59...

... regarded as fact-defective in light of the US government’s history of providing support to Salafist terrorist groups. [email protected] © 2025 Caucus for a Critical Political Science 2025 religion terrorism military intervention Charlie Hebdo al-Qaeda ISIS In 2015...

... through the instrumentality of the Central Intelligence Agency) as a core means of conducting the so-called "war on terror7 By December 2002 CIA Director George Tenet declared that many members of Al Qaeda had been captured as a result of information obtained from previously captured members.s We can...

... Afghanistan? One answer is: to defend itself or maybe just to avenge the attacks of 9/11. But this, perhaps legitimate, casus belli begins to lose some of its integrity upon closer examination. First of all, the terrorism of 9/11 was a classic case of "blow back."4 The rise of al Qaeda and its later...

... militarily BY WAR against Al Qaeda, Taliban, host countries HONOR OUR DEAD Goal: EXTERMINATION The other actor Muslims & Arabs Cultural fundamentalism TEXTS PRESENTISM (Bypassed by modernity) Retaliation cycle Violence-breeds-violence logic Both are victims Continues unless: conflicts solved, cycle exit...

... against Iraq and was an important component of the Kosovo war that was planned, programmed, and orchestrated through computer networks, as well as the 2001 war against the al Qaeda network and Taliban in Afghanistan. While the Persian Gulf TV war was arguably the most spectacular military campaign...

... Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and specifically the threat that these weapons posed to the United States given the Iraqi regime's putative links to international terrorist networks, al Qaeda in particular. In this context, the "freedom" implied in "Operation Iraqi Freedom" is not properly...

... of "blowback," a theme developed by Chalmers Johnson in this volume and elsewhere. Assuming 9/11 was the work of Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network that has established a presence in dozens of countries around the world, it would be hard to view these events as anything but the vengeful payback for US...

... warmongers of the Bush administration were all over the Sunday talk shows making their case for war against Iraq. Cheney repeated on Meet the Press all of the well known crimes of Saddam Hussein, insinuated long-discredited ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, and even tried to pin the September 2001 anthrax...

... the 2001 US assault on Afghanistan was based on the view that al Qaeda forces planned the 9/11 attacks from that country, many observers believe that al Qaeda leadership is now based in Pakistan, a longtime US ally, or is even more widely dispersed. Obama maintains that Afghanistan and Pakistan...

... texts authored by the two principal al Qaeda leaders: Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Steger begins with a historical overview suggesting that the two centuries of secularization, expressed through such political ideologies as liberalism, socialism, and fascism, were intimately linked...

... to Clarke's logic, lowers these extraordinary standards because these victims of torture are, more often than not, forgotten figures. Take the case of Jamil Qasim Saeed Mohammed, the first victim of the rendition program. A Yemini microbiology student suspected of taking part in the al Qaeda bombing...

...). It is understandable why they would want to use this classificatory scheme. A bloodbath, however, is not the same as an act of genocide, although arguably all acts of genocide are bloodbaths. Al Qaeda certainly created a bloodbath on September 11, 2001, but it would be lunatic to call what happened to the World Trade...

... the real significance of the memos. Obviously by last spring, the truth about non-existent weapons of mass destruction and the absence of operational links between Saddam and Al Qaeda were well known. The momentous disclosure in these memos was the hard evidence that, before the war, the president had...

... the occupied territories to its harsh and brutal practices there. l2 The observations generalize in obvious ways. In serious scholarship, at least, it is recognized that "Unless the social, political, and economic conditions that spawned Al Qaeda and other associated groups are addressed, the United States...

... of high-tech weaponry. Nichols' film makes the case that Mujahedeen victory fully depended on the heroics of Wilson and Avakos. Yet the film has little to say about what happened in Afghanistan once the fighting ended-that is, about the historical conditions giving rise to the Taliban and al Qaeda. While...

... elements that might offend Chinese audiences, represented American fears of al-Qaeda-style terrorism, and provided commentary on how US militarism fosters and depends upon external threats. Nonetheless, other of Turzi's character applications require deeper development or possibly different choices...

...-namely, the Iraqi regime's putative Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) programs, Saddam Hussein's links to al Qaeda's terrorist network, and the unique threat to United States security these implied. Then undergraduates at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, Carpenter and Owen had followed the news...

... there has been some speculation that the Bush administration had foreknowledge of the attacks and deliberately allowed them to occur,73 such an interpretation seems extremely implausible. The fact that the Al Qaeda attacks damaged the Pentagon, and nearly killed a large portion of the US military leadership...