Definition & Meaning | English word AL-QAEDA

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Definitions of AL-QAEDA

1. A worldwide network of militant Sunni Islamic organizations and individuals.

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Examples of Using AL-QAEDA in a Sentence

• The Boeing 757-200 aircraft serving the flight was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.
• He left his family in 2000 to complete the Hajj, but later went to Afghanistan bound for an al-Qaeda training camp where he befriended other future hijackers and would soon be chosen to participate in the attacks.
• He arrived in the United States in June 2001 under the direction of Al-Qaeda for terrorist attacks, on a tourist visa.
• Bush administration in the months preceding its 2003 invasion of Iraq as evidence of a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
• Osama bin Laden (10 March 19572 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda.
• The aircraft hijackers in the September 11 attacks were 19 men affiliated with jihadist organization al-Qaeda.
• United Airlines Flight 175 was a domestic passenger flight from Logan International Airport in Boston to Los Angeles International Airport in California that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.
• United Airlines Flight 93 was a domestic scheduled passenger flight that was hijacked by four al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks.
• The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by al-Qaeda against , a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while it was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor.
• The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.
• national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of Operation Neptune Spear which resulted in the death of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden; anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in early 2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown in the Middle East and Northern Africa, which lead to the Arab Winter.
• CIA paramilitary officers, working with their allies, attempted to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces.
• Osama bin Laden (1957–2011), Saudi Arabia-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who founded al-Qaeda.
• visa; he is accused of acting as an intermediary for the hijackers in the United States, by wiring money and passing on information from key al-Qaeda figures.
• Shortly after al-Qaeda carried out the September 11 attacks, the Taliban government was toppled by an American invasion of Afghanistan, prompting Omar to go into hiding.
• The county is famous for being the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93, one of the four flights involved in the September 11 attacks, which crashed near the village of Shanksville after the flight's passengers struggled with Al-Qaeda hijackers for control of the plane, which terrorists intended to fly into either the U.
• Adam Yahiye Gadahn, spokesman for al-Qaeda and adviser to Osama bin Laden, spent his childhood living on the family's farm in Winchester.
• Nigerian man Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was convicted of eight criminal counts and sentenced to four life sentences plus 50 years without parole.
• Shanksville garnered global attention during the September 11 attacks when United Airlines Flight 93, bound from Newark, New Jersey, for San Francisco, crashed in adjacent Stonycreek Township after its passengers rebelled against the flight's al-Qaeda terrorist hijackers.
• Flight 93 was one of four airliners hijacked that day as part of the Al-Qaeda terrorist attack on the United States.

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