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Muslim Brotherhood
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Qutb and Azzam
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al Faisal Born
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Cold War
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Isreal Created
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Egyption Government dissolves Muslim Brotherhood
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Qutb visits U.S.
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Qutb in Greeley, Colorado
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al Zawahiri Birth
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Qutb in Prison
Nesser puts Qutb in prison for the first time. -
Sinai Campaign
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Bin Laden Born
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Turki in America
Citation Father (the king) sent son to America. Study in New Jersey (Lawrenceville School) -
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Qutb wrote Milestones
Citation A link to the Milestones With Highlights to imp. quotes: http://www.izharudeen.com/uploads/4/1/2/2/4122615/milestones_www.izharudeen.com.pdf' >Milestones With Highlights of imp. quotes </a> -
Qutb Dies
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Qutb convicted
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Six-day War
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Azzam Fled to Jordan
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Saudi's in American Universities
30,000 Saudi's attend American Universities and in return 200,000 Americans have lived/worked inside the Saudi Kingdom. -
Bin Laden Religious Awakening
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Yom Kippur War.
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al Zawahriri Cell
al Zawahariri's Prision cell had grown and now was occupied by 40 memebers, all ready for radical change. -
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Egyptian Islamic Jihad
CitationGroup became active in the late 70's. Split into two factions one led by al-Zawahiri and the other by Ahmad Husayn Agiza. -
Russia Invades Afghanistan
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Al Faisai Rule
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Hezbolla
Radical Shia group formed in 1982 in Lebanon. Strongly anti-Western and anti-Israeli. Closely allied with, and often directed by, Iran. Involved in a suicide truck bombing of the U.S. Embassey and U.S. Marine base in Beirut. Responsible for the kidnapping and detention of U.S. and other Western hostages in Lebanon -
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Bin Laden in Saudi
OBL moves across the border into Saudi to raise money for Arab support, raises more money than Rahman. -
Bin Laden Joins Jihad
Bin Laden has his first battle in support of Saudi, watches his whole team get killed. Part of the "death cult" (arab jihadists fighting, just there to die). -
al Zawahiri Released from Prision
"emerging a hardened radical" (Wright, 67). -
US help Bin Laden
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Bin Laden moves family to Peshawar
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bin Laden Troops
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6,000 Arabs join the Jihad
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Bin Laden Proclimation
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Azzam Killed
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Bin Laden Foreign Policy
OBL's personal foreign policy changes. Warns King about Hussein and Iraq. King Rejects his proposal, hummiliatiing OBL. "We will fight them with faith". -
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Bin Laden offers his services to Prince Turki
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