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- Title
BIN LA DEN, AL-ZA RKAWI, AL-BA GHDADI – KRYZYSY, DO KTÓRYCH MOGŁOBY NIE DOJŚĆ….
- Authors
Huczko, Maciej
- Abstract
A crucial challenge to the US foreign policy at the beginning of this century is Islamic terrorism. With the attacks of 11 September 2001, Islamic terrorism, mainly based on Al-Qaeda, has become an international threat. The founder and the best recognised face of this terrorist organisation was Bin Laden who already a dozen or so years before 2001 had made the United States and Americans his target. Intelligence knowledge about Bin Laden, though incomplete, was already accessible in the late 1990s. However, the decisionmakers decided not to eliminate this terrorist. In result of the American intervention, first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq, Al-Qaeda evolved and spread over the Middle East region. The key figures in that process were (and are) al-Zarqawi and al-Baghdadi. These terrorists are responsible for setting up and the direction of activities of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, the subject destabilising the Middle East and posing a threat also beyond it. Both al- Zarqawi and al-Baghdadi should have been eliminated at an earlier stage, what might have exerted a significant impact on the political situation in the Middle East and consequences related to the lack of stability in this region. Holding back these terrorists at an earlier stage was possible and this, in turn, might have had a considerable impact on the development of events in the Middle East. The comparative analysis of the way covered by the said terrorists as well as the unexploited opportunities to hold them back illustrates some mistakes and omissions the United States made in all the cases in question.
- Publication
Vistula Scientific Quarterly / Kwartalnik Naukowy Uczelni Vistula, 2017, Vol 53, Issue 3, p17
- ISSN
2084-4689
- Publication type
Article