PS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda, Islamic Fundamentalism
6 Sep 2016
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2008: mumbai attacks multiple jihadist attacks throughout the city across 4 days. Jihad: a type of militant islamist: al-qaida. Al-qaida: literally means the base (named after a base in the mountains in afghanistan) Al-qaida initially began fighting russia, not the u. s. (soviet invasion of afghanistan, 1980s). The u. s. backed some of the jihadist groups fighting the soviet union. After the russians withdrew from afghanistan, al-qaida jihadists went back to their countries and tried to conduct change, but they all failed. When they were thrown out of their own countries, they returned to afghanistan. o. The taliban initially wasn"t going to allow bin laden in, but they let him in since he had a lot of money to bring to the cause. After al-qaida became powerful, local jihadist groups across the world changed their names to al-
