HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Psychodrama, Bass Clarinet, Greil Marcus
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From the cold war to the war on terror by prof. szalay. December 25, 1991: soviet premier mikhail gorbachev declares an end to the soviet. September 11, 2001: al-qaeda launches four attacks on targets in new york and. From the cold war to the war on terror . A militant islamist group, al-qaeda has its origins in the cia sponsored battle against the. Osama bin laden works with the cia and the saudi royal family to fund the mujahedeen (a resistance group), many of which later join al-qaeda. During the last decades of the 20th century, the u. s. supports saddam hussein and the. Ba-ath party (arab nationalists) in iraq in an effort to check the influence of the islamic. Republic of iran: the very factions that the us supports turns against it and becomes an antagonist, unexpectedly turning against the us blowback .
