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Who is Ayman al-Zawahiri?
The current leader of Al Qaeda
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What is ISIS?
Extremist group which controls territory in Iraq and Syria and has partially supplanted Al Qaeda.
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What are bombing targets?
Trains, planes, and automobiles
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What is the personal wealth of Osama Bin Laden?
Initial funding that got Al-Qaeda off of the ground iin the 1990’s
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Who was Mawlana Mawdudi?
Indian-born writer, jurist and politician. Post-partition headed the party in Pakistan known as Jamaat-i-Islami
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What is Salafism?
An austere interpretation of Islam. Lies behind the thinking of most Al Qaeda supporters.
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What is kidnapping?
Making a new friend, selling that friend for money
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What is the heroin trade?
Supporter of Al-Qaeda Operations grown in Afghanistan
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Who was Sayyib Qutb?
Egyptian writer and theorist. Developed his radical version of Islam whilst in prison in the years of Nasser
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What is Wahhabism?
The Saudi version of salafism
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What is Jet Fuel?
Can't Melt Steel Beams
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What is the “Golden Chain?
20 top Saudi and Gulf States financial sponsors including bankers, businessmen, and former ministers
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Who was Osama Bin Laden
Founder of Al Qaeda. Son of Yemeni father who became a billionaire through the construction industry in Saudi Arabia.
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What is the United States?
Country of Kufar
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What is a war of attrition?
Long-term, drawn-out, resource sucking conflict
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What is charity?
A way to get on a watch-list via donation
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Who is Hamza Bin Laden?
Rising ‘star’ of Al Qaeda, but has not been seen in any recent photographs.
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What is Jihad?
The Arabic for ‘striving’, sometimes also translated as ‘holy war’
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What is Provoking the United States and the West into invading a Muslim country by staging a massive attack or string of attacks on US soil that results in massive civilian casualties
9/11
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What is Saudi Arabia?
Country singled out in 2009 diplomatic cable published by WIkileaks as a chief financial supporters of many extremist activities
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