Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is an extremist international terrorist organization, nominally controlled by Osama bin Laden. It was responsible on 11 September 2001 for the world's single worst terrorist atrocity, with the suicide hijackings of airliners that crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and other targets, including the Pentagon, at the cost of around 3,000 lives. Al-Qaeda is not a unified organization with an identifiable structure, but has links with fundamentalist terrorist groups in over 40 countries who share its ideology of global jihad (holy war). The organization's complex structure, based on autonomous ...