al-Qaeda
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
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al-Qaeda (‘the Base’) A terrorist organization founded in 1988, originally recruited from the
Islamic fundamentalist resistance fighters who fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Headed by Osama
Bin Laden, it is a highly secret organization whose effectiveness has been ensured by the idea of compartmentalization. It meant that its different divisions in over 30 countries (which included Kenya, Pakistan, Somalia, the Sudan, and the Philippines) had little detailed knowledge of each other's activities. In 1998 it was held to be responsible for an attack on the US embassy in Kenya, killing 213 people, and on the US embassy in Dar-es-Salaam, killing eleven. The organization then organized the attack on USS
Cole in Aden in 2000. Sustained by volunteers and money coming from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and other predominantly Arab states, the al-Qaeda network is sustained by a belief that the US epitomizes values that are opposed to
Islam, and which must be fought by a holy war. The organization was behind the
September 11 attacks, after which it became the prime target in the
War on Terrorism led by President George W.
Bush. Al-Qaeda's fighters were the backbone of the
Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and when the Taliban fell, many al-Qaeda fighters were captured by
Northern Alliance forces and other tribal groups. Some were handed over to the US forces, which transported them to special imprisonment to
Guantanamo Bay, where they were protected neither by the US Constitution nor by the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.
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Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 6/20/2001; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 10/11/2003; 700+ words
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CUT CANNAS TO GET RID OF PESTS.(HOME)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 2/28/1999; 700+ words
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Glorious and colourful blooming Cannas
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 2/15/2003; ; 700+ words
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GARDENSCAPE: ; Keen on cannas? Wait till spring to buy showy bloomers
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 10/28/2001; ; 700+ words
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canna
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
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cane
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
cane XIV. ME. can(n)e — OF. cane , (also mod.) canne :- L. canna reed, etc. — Gr. kánna , kánnē — Assyrian ḳanū (Heb. ḳaneh ) — Sumerian gin . Hence cane vb. XVII.
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achira
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
achira See CANNA .
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can
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...kan ), OHG. channa (G. kanne ), ON. kanna ; it is uncertain whether the word is orig. Gmc. or — late L. canna (VI), whence OF. channe , Pr. cana . OE. canne is recorded only once, after which there is no Eng. evidence till XIV...
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