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Essay
September 11, 2001
“9/11” has emerged as shorthand for the four coordinated terrorist attacks on the United...
Glossary Term – Event
Osama bin Laden killed
President Barack Obama reported that Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan. The covert mission was named Operation Neptune Spear and conducted by members of Navy SEAL Team 6.
Glossary Term – Organization
al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda is the militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden that was responsible for various acts of terrorism, including the attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001, as well as the attacks on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the suicide bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. Bin Laden organized al-Qaeda in opposition to the Soviet Union during the Afghan War of the 1980s. The group merged, moved, and established itself in various capacities and locations following the Soviet withdrawal...
Glossary Term – Person
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (1937–2006) was the president of Iraq whose long reign was marked by brutality and war. Saddam came to power upon the resignation of President Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr in 1979, and he quickly established an oppressive and retaliatory rule. In 1980, he authorized the Iraqi invasion of Iran’s oil fields, and the resulting war would last until 1988. In 1990, Saddam authorized an invasion of Kuwait, but US and UN intervention drove Iraqi forces out of the country. As a result of the Persian Gulf War, the United Nations imposed strict...
Glossary Term – Person
Barack Obama
Barack Obama (1961– ) is the forty-fourth president of the United States. Before becoming the first African American elected to the nation’s highest office, Obama attended Columbia University and earned a law degree from Harvard. He also worked as a community organizer in Chicago for several years and in 1997 became a member of the Illinois senate. He was elected to the US Senate in 2004, and that same year his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention lifted Obama into the national spotlight. In 2007 he announced his candidacy...
Glossary Term – Person
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld (1932– ) was the US secretary of defense under President George W. Bush. He was largely responsible for the early handling of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Before serving in the Bush administration, Rumsfeld worked as a private businessman and served in Congress and under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Though he earned praise for ending the regime of Saddam Hussein, public opinion turned against Rumsfeld as US military involvement in the Middle East was prolonged and the Abu...
Glossary Term – Person
George W. Bush
George W. Bush (1946–) was the forty-third president of the United States. Bush’s two-term presidency was marked by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent American wars in the Middle East. The oldest son of former President George H. W. Bush, George W. served in the Texas Air National Guard and worked in the Texas oil industry before entering politics. He was elected as the Republican governor of Texas in 1994 and won reelection in 1998. In 2000, he ran for the presidency against Democratic nominee Al Gore...