Protest against Saudi Arabia's Government
The letter delivered to the Saudi king in AH 1413 (1992) which listed 9 complaints against the government
Memorandum of Advice
This is the land occupied by American forces
The land of the two holy places OR Saudi Arabia OR Mecca and Medina
the search for humanity or the attempt to realize it
the central focus of militant action
Independent of terrorist intentions, instead focused on causing maximum death, injury, panic, cost, and disruption.
The existential dimension that transcends terrorist intentions when attacking infrastructure
This is the Arabic word for community or the Islamic community
Umma
The amount of Riyals owed to the Saudi people by the Saudi government
340 billion
The main resource that Osama bin Laden believes that America wants out of their occupation of Saudi Arabia
Oil
The goal of Al-Qaeda in relation to humanity
The model does not claim responsibility for attacks and attacks focus on fomenting panic in public life.
The shift in terrorist politics, moving away from the model of groups like the PLO or IRA
This is the Arabic word for "disbelievers"
kuffar/kafir
These were wrongdoings of the Saudi government towards their citizens (Name 3)
Saudi intimidation tactics, arbitrary declarations of Islamic law, media propaganda, human rights abuses, financial corruption, poor social services, an expensive military incapable of defending the country, man-made law placed above Islamic law, and foreign policy which ignores muslims
The international governing body which Osama bin Laden feels has colluded with the "Zionist-Crusader Alliance"
The UN
Muslims are identified as passive victims who embody humanity
How Al-Qaeda views Muslims in the context of human rights and crimes against society
The random and uncontrollable targeting of residences spaces is considered more panic-inducing
effective in creating panic rather than targeting infrastructure
These are the risks of infighting within the Muslim community (name 3)
injuries and death, waste of economic resources, destruction of infrastructure, social division, destruction of the oil industry, division of the holy land and Israeli annexation, American control of the region
"Half a century ago, the rulers promised the umma that they would regain the first ____"
Qibla
US Secretary of Defense William Perry said this was the reason for US presence in Saudi Arabia
Protecting US interests
language that America or the West understands
What Devji says al-Qaeda's attacks are interpreted as
Serial bombing targets the entire city's infrastructure to address global and abstract grievances, with no specific target
The distinction between the novel approach of serial bombing in Mumbai from old-fashioned religious riots
pity is a characteristic of violent humanitarianism
This was the first petition to the Saudi King
Petition of Shawwal
"Clearly after belief (iman), there is no more important duty than ____."
expelling the American enemy from the homeland.
condemn it as hypocritical and abandon it in their pursuit of remaking humanity
How militants view the technical language of humanitarianism and human rights
These attacks disrupted the time by which people live and move, utilizing the same procedures that allow infrastructure to function
attacks on transportation networks, like those in Mumbai, London, or Madrid, can be seen as suicidal
Believes that ______ and the White House are teamed up against the United States
Osama Bin Laden during the U.S. invasion of Iraq