More than a month has passed since the United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan, but the Americans have not escaped the shadow of the war in Afghanistan. Tracing back to the source, it all starts with one person, and that is bin Laden. How did an Arab born with a rich life transform into al-Qaida's leader step by step? And bin Laden hates Americans so much?
Bin Laden's father, a Saudi real estate businessman, earned a large number of construction orders from the Saudi royal family with his brain and eloquence, and had a total of 45 children in his lifetime. Bin Laden is ranked 17th, and in both order and other ways, he is an ordinary rich second generation.
After the death of bin Laden the Elder, bin Laden inherited a multi-million dollar inheritance, as well as an equity stake in the construction company left by his father. Bin Laden had quite a lot of capital, and then he met the man who changed his life: Abdullah Azam. A rather fanatical jihadist, bin Laden was also a mentor at the University of Saudi Arabia. Perhaps it was by example, or the young bin Laden hoped that he would have more great achievements in the future, and finally he was fooled by the teacher and chose to participate in the Holy War of the Arabs.
Using its wealth as a source of nourishment for Al-Qaida, a large number of supplies and personnel entered Afghanistan through the construction company of the Bin Laden family, becoming an important force in resisting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. It is precisely because of bin Laden's actions that he has gained a lot of prestige and followers.
But just standing behind the scenes did not satisfy bin Laden, and he finally decided to go to Afghanistan to join the jihad himself! Together with his mentor, Razam, he established the predecessor of al-Qaida. It was during the Cold War, and the Americans decided to add some eye drops to the former Soviet Union in Afghanistan and began secretly funding bin Laden's underground organization.
In 1986, bin Laden, who had accumulated some experience and qualifications, established his own organization on the southern border of Afghanistan to confront the former Soviet Union. In the midst of the fierce war, bin Laden's reputation continued to rise, eventually becoming the core leader of Al-Qaida in Afghanistan after Razam's death.
During this period, the United States has been a funder of al-Qaida, so why did bin Laden later become so hostile to the Americans?
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Americans lost their opponents, al-Qaida naturally lost its original strategic value, and the United States became an opposing camp that limited al-Qaida's expansion. During the period when bin Laden was banned from leaving Saudi Arabia, it may have been the loss of freedom and religious influence that made bin Laden's thinking begin to become more extreme.
He openly called the United States "the devil who speaks English", and after fleeing from Saudi Arabia, bin Laden began the road of expansion, and he was naturally quite annoyed by the betrayal of the United States. In his eyes, Americans are the main culprits of the chaos in the Middle East, which has left Muslim countries devastated and divided. It was also with the support of the United States that Israel was able to establish a State in Palestine and gradually annex the territories belonging to Palestine.
In 1996, bin Laden declared war on the United States and began planning various attacks against the United States. In 2001, al-Qaida, which was no longer satisfied with attacking Americans overseas, orchestrated and led the worst attack in history: 9/11, twin towers. A total of 3,000 people died in the attack, and what is even more frightening is that the plane can become a weapon of terror, and the huge shock that fell from the sky made the whole world tremble.
Bin Laden succeeded, and he made Americans feel the pain of cutting into the skin in retaliation for U.S. interference in Muslim countries. But the United States is not easy to provoke, and Bush Jr. took advantage of the fear and hatred of all Americans to declare that the United States launched a counterattack against al-Qaida! Whether it's al-Qaida itself, or any force that shelters bin Laden.
Al-Qaida has been severely damaged, and has lost its heyday strength under repeated attacks by the US military, and bin Laden has also chosen to hide his name and live a life of seclusion under the attack and pursuit. After constant investigation by the US intelligence services, bin Laden ended the game of cat and mouse, and bin Laden, as a mouse, was killed by the US special forces, along with his sons.
As for the United States, it has not changed its intervention in the Middle East, and after the death of bin Laden, it is still involved in the Syrian civil war, choosing to continue to support the opposition forces... Whether it is bin Laden or the United States, the confrontation and resistance between the two sides does not seem to have changed anything.
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