Yemen

Yemen's armed forces receive counter-terrorism training and direct military financing from the Americans. However, Yemen is a shaky, neophyte democracy where power structures are highly personalised and President Ali Abdullah Saleh often prefers to neutralise his enemies by locking them into loyalty bargains. Flexible notions of custody include loose house-arrest or promises of good behaviour with verbal security guarantees from tribal intermediaries.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/yemen-the-weakest-link

Far from home

Since summer 2007, terrorist violence has claimed the lives of fourteen tourists and more than twenty Yemenis. The United States embassy in Sana'a was the target of a suicide-bombing in September 2008 that killed eighteen people. The focus and coordination of the campaign is evident too in an assault on 18 March 2009 by a pedestrian suicide-bomber on a South Korean diplomatic convoy driving from the airport to the capital, Sana'a; this was carrying the bereaved relatives of four people killed in a similar attack three days earlier. Al-Qaida in Yemen has now merged with militant groups from neighbouring Saudi Arabia, and is operating under the name of "Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula".

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/yemen-the-weakest-link

Jamal al-Fadl and the creation of the network

the creation of the network began because of series of Middle East secret. Jamal al- Fadl "as a key prosecution witness and is given a huge amount of American taxpayers‘ money at the same time" and Fadl used his money to build up Al Qeada. Jamal al-Fadl was Sudanese militan who was with Bin Laden in the 90,s and he also said that Bin Laden had given the Network the name "Al Qeada."


http://www.elfrank.net/gov/Power_of_Nightmares/Nightmares_transcript.pdf

Al Queda earliest attacks against the U.S

The first attack to the U.S was in December 29, 1992 and it was against the U.S force in Aden.They operates bomb in a Hotel where the U.S troops were but they missed their target and U.s troop leave immediately leave Aden. The second attack was in February 26, 1993 and it was the first World Trade Center attack and the first attack of terrorrism in America "A bomb built in nearby Jersey City is driven into an underground garage at the trade center and detonated, killing six and wounding 1,500. Yousef, nephew of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, masterminds the attack, working with nearly a dozen local Muslims. While U.S. officials disagree on whether Osama bin Laden instituted the attack and Yousef denies he has met bin Laden". Because series attacks against U.S Bin Laden is the most wanted terrorrist in the world. And the U.S want to capture Bin Laden death or alive because he is a treat against the U.S.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4677978/

Obama Administration

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in December 2009 that officials have had no reliable information on Bin Laden's whereabouts for "years". One week later, general Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said in December 2009 that al-Qaeda will not be defeated unless its leader, Osama Bin Laden, is captured or killed. Testifying to the U.S. Congress, he said Bin Laden had become an "iconic figure, whose survival emboldens al-Qaeda as a franchising organization across the world", and that Obama's deployment of 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan meant that success would be possible. "I don't think that we can finally defeat al-Qaeda until he's captured or killed", McChrystal said of Bin Laden. Killing or capturing Bin Laden would not spell the end of al-Qaeda, but the movement could not be eradicated while he remained at large.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden

2004 The Madrid Bombing by Al Qeada

On March 11, 2004, Spain's most horrific terrorist attack occurred: 202 people were killed and 1,400 were injured in bombings at Madrid's railway station. Evidence soon emerged that al-Qaeda was responsible. By April, a dozen suspects, most of them Moroccan, were arrested for the bombings. On April 4, several suspects blew themselves up during a police raid to avoid capture. Many Spaniards blamed their prime minister's staunch support of the U.S. and the war in Iraq for making Spain an al-Qaeda target.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html

The raise of Al Qeada

After his expulsion from Saudi Arabia, bin Laden established headquarters for al-Qaeda in Khartoum, Sudan. The first actions of al-Qaeda against American interests were attacks on U.S. servicemen in Somalia. A string of terrorist actions suspected to have been orchestrated by al-Qaeda followed. And in August 1996 bin Laden issued a "Declaration of War" against the U.S. Al-Qaeda also worked to forge alliances with other radical groups. In February 1998, bin Laden announced an alliance of terrorist organizations—the "International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders"—that included the Egyptian al-Gama'at al-Islamiyya, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the Harakat ul-Ansar, and other groups.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/al-qaeda-terrorism.html