09/11 Terror Attacks: Is USA Needed to Invade Afghanistan to Eliminate Osama Bin Laden the Leader of Al-Qaeda?
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Published Date: 11 September 2022
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Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher
Researcher in International Relations with a Focus on Security, Political and Economic Risks for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade
11 September 2022 at 05:13. The Terror Attack of 09/11 marks the change of the world towards terror groups, yet looking from a historical perspective after 20 years, two main questions arise: i) Why did the intelligence agencies of the USA and its allies fail to reveal the plan of 09/11 and prevent it? ii) Were the USA and its allies (NATO) needed to enter the 20 war in Afghanistan following 09/11?
The terror attack of 09/11 was carried out by 19 men – 15 of them were from Saudi Arabia and 4 others from Egypt, the UAE and Lebanon. It was planned for years by al-Qaeda with Osama Bin Laden as the leader, so theoretically, the West's intelligence agencies had a long time to reveal it and prevent it, but it did not happen. Perhaps because the West's intelligence agencies underestimated the ability of terror groups to carry out this coordinated terror attack in the USA alongside their lack of informative people in Saudi Arabia to reveal most of the attackers that came from there.
Following the terror attack of 09/11, the USA and its allies (NATO) were involved in a very long war in Afghanistan, yet without strategic success to eliminate terror groups in general, and the terror groups in Afghanistan, in particular. Still, the USA succeeded in avenging al-Qaeda and their leaders. Nonetheless, is it worth the 20 years war in Afghanistan, or could it be done by target operations without getting into the invasion of Afghanistan? Looking back, it was not worth the unprecedented cost of the war in Afghanistan because it did not deter the evolution of terror groups and their activities. Worse, in the last decade, it even became worse, such as the evolution of the global terror group, Islamic State.
My analysis is that the West intelligence agencies should not underestimate the ability of terror groups to carry out sophisticated terror attacks that may even involve attackers from West countries. Besides, it's doubtful that an invasion or air attack like what was done in Afghanistan or Syria will resolve the threat of terror attacks in the long-run. Perhaps dealing with the causes for the creation of terror groups and their activities may be more effective in the long-run, yet preventing the planning of terror attacks could be done only by revealing it, and that is on the shoulders of intelligence agencies that should be wiser than the attackers.
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