The Reason Behind The 9/11 Attacks

by zallstar in History, September 6, 2009

This is a research paper that explains the main reason for the terrorist attacks on 9/11.

Without a strong, central government, the country dissolved into chaos. Warlords grabbed as much territory and as many men as they could. Old tribal boundaries and laws from hundreds of years past resurfaced. Frequent wars broke out between the different factions. Many experts point to this time as the reason for the terrorist attacks on 9/11. When Afghanistan was at its weakest and crying for its former friends, they abandoned them to their fate. During this chaos, the experts say, any rogue regime could have taken power. It was just coincidence that they hated the United States. None of the experts mention that the reason there was no regime in place to handle the resulting bloodshed was because the U.S had stepped in with money and weapons. The U.S. helped to maintain the calm before the invasion. If the British had been there to stop the violence before it even started, there would have been no pretext for an anti-western group to gain power. There would be no reason for the CIA trained Mujahideen to gain power. They used their tactics and weapons to form a new group known as the Taliban. They captured Kabul and were able to restore peace to most of Afghanistan; however, there was one thing that they still wanted and that was revenge against the U.S. for abandoning their country.

As their popularity and power grew, so did their hatred of their former allies. Eventually, a group of men from Eastern Afghanistan formed together to create Al-Qaeda. Their leader was a former Mujahideen supplier named Osama Bin Laden. Using his skills that he learned during the Cold War, he created an army that hated the U.S. They quickly formed an alliance with the anti-American Taliban and formed a plan to attack the United States (Harvery).

On September 11th, 2001, their plan was carried out and 3,000 Americans died. One month later the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to destroy the attackers. The U.S. overthrew the Taliban government of Afghanistan and sought to rid the country of its terrorist groups. Their official goals were to stabilize and modernize the country, find Osama Bin Laden, retrain the Afghan army to patrol its borders and help rid itself of its terrorist groups (Harvery). Today, none of these goals have officially been accomplished and violence in the area is increasing. The locals are getting angry with the U.S. as more civilians are killed by air strikes. The remnants of the Taliban still have strong support in the south and have claimed responsibility for many improvised explosive device attacks. Along the Pakistani border, terrorists cross into Afghanistan with help from local warlords, they attack U.S. convoys, and then retreat back into Pakistan (Whiteehind the ).

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