Osama Bin Laden
Influence and communication
Osama Bin Laden was known to the world as the terror leader who reached out and touched the western civilization with his attacks on the twin towers in New York city. Bin Laden was first influenced himself, before becoming influential to followers all across the Middle East, with his ideas of Jihad. Followers were influenced by Osama Bin Laden the leader of the terror group “Al-Qaeda,” which became popular prior to the 9/11 attacks. Even after the attacks on 9/11 Bin Laden’s influence was steadily climbing in numbers of followers. As influence was still existent more than ever, so was Osama’s popularity. Prior to 9/11, Osama had various forms of communication that he found to be effective with his colleagues and followers. On another note, communication took on different types of forms, that enabled for Bin Laden to be able to communicate effectively with his organization.
Influence Prior to 9/11
Bin Laden was influenced early on while attending college in the late 70’s, where he
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The main reason that bin Laden was able to do all this is that he knew how to tap into
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