The next terrorist that had a great impact on the development of terrorism is Adolf Hitler. This man went down in history for the brutal killings of many Jews. This horrible event was called the Holocaust. This act of violence was made because Hitler wanted every Jew exterminated. Adolf Hitler, murder of millions, master of destruction and organized insanity, did not come into the world as a monster. He was not sent to earth by the devil, nor was he sent by heaven to “bring order” to Germany, to give the country the autobahn and rescue it from its economic crisis.
On the evening of April 20th, 1889 an innocent child was born in the small town of Braunau Am Inn, Austria. The name of the child was Adolf Hitler. His only boyhood friend, August Kuvizek, recalled Hitler as a shy, reticent young man. He was a audience for Hitler, who often rambled for hours about his hopes and dreams. Sometimes Hitler even gave speeches complete with wild hand gestures to his audience of one. Adolf Hitler had always been straightforward about his plans for the Jews. His deram of a racially “pure” empire would tolerate no Jews.
He roundup Jews and were herded like cattle and put into concentration camps. These were set up in 1933 to detain without legal procedure Jews, Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals and others. During world war II extermination, or death camps were established for the sole purpose of killing men, women and children. In the most Germany, more that 6 million people, mostly Jews and Poles, were killed in gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing center where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed.
After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 250 malnourished and ill Polish prisoners and 600 Russian POWs, mass murder became a daily routine; more than 1. 25 million were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 9 out of 10 were Jews. In addition, Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and ill prisoners of all nationalities died in the gas chambers. Between May 14 and July 8,1944, 437,402 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwicz by 48 trains. The final terrorist that I am going to talk about is one of the most hated people still alive today.
Osama Bin Laden is one of the CIA’s most wanted men. Even though he is the most famous terrorist today, he is also a hero to many young people in the Arab world. He and his associates were already being sought by the US on charges of international terrorism, including in connection with the 1998 bombing of American embassies in Africa and last year’s attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. In May this year, a US jury convicted four men believed to be linked with Bin Laden of plotting the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Bin Laden, an immensely wealthy and private man, has been granted a safe haven by Afghanistan’s ruling Taleban movement. His power is founded on a personal fortune earned by his family’s construction business in Saudi Arabia. During his time in hiding, he has called for a holy war against the US, and for the killing of Americans and Jews. He is reported to be able to rally around him up to 3,000 fighters. He is also suspected of helping to set up Islamic training centers to prepare soldiers to fight in Chechnya and other parts of the former Soviet Union.
Born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni family, Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Afghan jihad was backed with American dollars and had the blessing of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. He received security training from the CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian. While in Afghanistan, he founded the Maktab al-Khidimat (MAK), which recruited fighters from around the world and imported equipment to aid the Afghan resistance against the Soviet army.
Egyptians, Lebanese, Turks and others – numbering thousands in Bin Laden’s estimate – joined their Afghan Muslim brothers in the struggle against an ideology that spurned religion. After the Soviet withdrawal, the “Arab Afghans”, as Bin Laden’s faction came to be called, turned their fire against the US and its allies in the Middle East. Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the family construction business, but was expelled in 1991 because of his anti-government activities there.
He spent the next five years in Sudan until US pressure prompted the Sudanese Government to expel him, whereupon Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan. Terrorism experts say Bin Laden has been using his millions to fund attacks against the US. The US State Department calls him “one of the most significant sponsors of Islamic extremist activities in the world today”“. According to the US, Bin Laden was involved in at least three major attacks – the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 killing of 19 US soldiers in Saudi Arabia, and the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.