viewed as a hero to the Afghani men he led. This prompted him to create the Al-Qaeda organization “to carry on a global war on so-called infidels.”
Osama went back to Saudi Arabia and started to be angry with not only the bond between the U.S. and Israel, but the altogether presence of the U.S. in the Middle East. Things escalated again when, in 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The fear in Saudi Arabia was that he would move into their country next. Osama had already offered the Saudis the option of having him drive Hussein out and back to Iraq. Instead of utilizing Osama’s skills, the Saudis asked the U.S. for help. Thus, Operation Desert Storm began, and Osama’s outrage led him to take action against these intruders.
While the U.S. focused on pushing Hussein back, Al-Qaeda began committing their first terrorist attacks. In 1992, they set off a bomb at the Gold Minor Hotel in Yemen where U.S. troops had been boarded. …show more content…
Al-Qaeda conducted intelligence activities in the U.S. to gather information about which targets would be the most effective and give them less unknown factors. Osama was adamant that the White House be one of the targets. Eventually, they were able to talk him out of it because it was such a small target and there were security measures in place that could be unpredictable. The idea of targeting the World Trade Center came from when Osama had watched the towers in Lebanon fall because of the Israelis. He thought it would be fair for Americans to experience what his people had experienced. Using planes as weapons, almost three thousand people were killed in the United States on September 11th, 2001. People who were old enough to understand will never be able to forget the images they saw on the television or the emotions they felt that day. Afterwards, once he finally took credit publically for the attack, Osama bragged “that the death toll was even greater than he had