Modern Conflicts of the Middle East

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Modern Conflicts of the Middle East
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Modern Conflicts
Suez Canal
Afghanistan
Iraq
Kuwait
Persian Gulf
Saudi Arabia
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Persian Gulf War
Saddam Hussein Iraqi President

• 1990 Iraq invades Kuwait over oil

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• President George H. Bush

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September 11 Attacks

• 2001
• Osama bin-Laden
• Al Qaeda (terrorist group)
• Twin Towers of World Trade Center (New York City)
• Pentagon (Wash. D.C.)

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Invasion of Afghanistan

• U.S. invades Afghanistan in 2001
• Taliban (Afghan government)
• protecting Osama bin-Laden and al-Qaeda

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Taliban announces to the world that they will not
give up Osama bin-Laden . . .
so the U.S. invades Afghanistan to find bin-Laden
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Operation of Iraqi Freedom
President Bush decides to invade Iraq in 2003
fearing that Saddam Hussein had WMDs (weapons of
mass destruction)
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Modern Conflicts
Suez Canal
Osama bin Laden

• Al-Qaeda
• Taliban

Saddam Hussein
Kuwait
Persian Gulf
Saudi Arabia