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Who Is the Strongest Terrorist Leader in the World? Who is the strongest terrorist leader in the world? Terrorism is meant the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purpose is called the terrorism[1]. There are four famous terrorism leaders in the world make the people live in fear and feel scared like Al-Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden , Taliban in Afghanistan, Cambodian terrorists leader HUN SEN, and Isis led by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi . Most people in the world always know about the terrorism news of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Taliban, and Isis from the news sources of the international mass-media and they always felt fear about them, are the violent activities against the human being at the present-day, but the most of them don’t know the terrorist group CPP and terrorist leader HUN SEN who killed a lot of people more than Al-Qaeda, Taliban and ISIS did? Who is the strongest leader in the world today? If we want to know who is the strongest terrorists leader in the world, we must compare every elements of the terrorism organizations such as the expectancy income, forces, weapons, back (supporter), modern Nanotechnology and spy system, diplomatic relation, mass-media, and international law between Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Isis and HUN SEN. Among many terrorism organizations in the world, there are only four strong terrorists organizations or leaders like Taliban led by Mullah Mohammed Omar , Al-Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden , CPP (Cambodian People Party) led by the terrorists leader HUN SEN , and Isis led by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. These four terrorist organizations make the world people worried about them and they are interested by many nations or countries in the world. The Taliban is an Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan. It spread throughout Afghanistan and formed a government, ruling as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from September 1996 until December 2001, with Kandahar as the capital led by Mullah Mohammed Omar . The Taliban have been accused of using terrorism as a specific tactic to further their ideological and political goals. On October 7, less than one month after the September 11 attacks, the U.S., aided by the United Kingdom, Canada, and other countries including several from the NATO alliance, initiated military action, bombing Taliban and Al-Qaeda-related camps. The stated intent of military operations was to remove the Taliban from power [2]. The Taliban was finished the power and can’t be the strongest terrorist in the word because of it is lacked of the expectancy income, forces, modern weapons, back (supporter), modern technology spy system, diplomatic relation, mass-media, and international law and it is no foreign aids and foreign loans from the United Nations and superpowers. 1 Al-Qaida or Al-Qa’ida is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama Bin Ladin, Abdullah Azzam, and several other militants, at some point between August 1988 and late 1989 with origins traceable to the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Al- Qaeda has carried out many attacks on targets It considers Kafir. Al-Qaeda has attacked civilian and military targets in various countries, including the September 11 attacks , the 1998 US embassy bombings and the 2002 Bali bombings [3]. The Al-Qaida terrorist’s organization attacked the World Trade Centers and Pentagon on September 11, 2001, made the U.S declare the U.S. Policy on Counterterrorism to the world. The U.S. army tried to hunt the terrorists everywhere until U.S. military attacked Afghanistan in October 2001. On September 11, 2001 a series of co-ordinated terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda killed thousands of innocent civilians on US soil [5]. Although, the dimension of the destructions of each terrorism leaders done, are different way, but the Osama Bin Laden [4] expectancy life and series of killing are the points of the strongest terrorists leaders in the world. If any terrorism organizations or leaders are finished, therefore, they are not the strongest terrorism leaders anymore. The strongest terrorism leader still stay alive and can continue to use the violence threat to intimate the people by the series of killing system to mock the international law and superpowers. Even though, Al-Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden is a famous terrorism organization in the world but it is not so strong terrorism organizations if it is compared to the terrorists leader HUN SEN, because its leader Osama Bin Laden is died and his organization has no the expectancy income, no many forces, no modern weapons, no back (supporter), no modern technology spy system like nanos-spy, no diplomatic relation with the superpowers, a few mass- media, and no international law bias on him or secret support any superpowers, but his activists are so strong mind, only can continue the activities of terrorism but it is a weak terrorism organization. Although Al-Qaeda is the famous terrorism organization in the world, it is still too weak, if it is compared to the terrorists leader HUN SEN , is a puppet of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese government and he is the Prime Minister of Cambodia under the control of Hanoi Government. The terrorists HUN SEN is the strongest terrorism in the world if he is compare to Al-Qaeda, Taliban and Isis. Why is HUN SEN the strongest terrorists leader in the world? HUN SEN is the strongest terrorist leader in Cambodia, also in the world too. Every Cambodian people always knew that HUN SEN using the tortures, killing and terrorism as a tool to rule Cambodian people in his fist strongly. The former-National 2 Assembly building of Cambodia is the terrorism souvenir attacked by the armed forces of the terrorists leader HUN SEN, that U.S. FBI has researched and shown the evidence about terrorism event attacked by the terrorists leader HUN SEN in Cambodia on 30 th March, 1997 in front of National Assembly building of Cambodia. Cambodian civil demonstrators were attacked by the armed forces of terrorists leader HUN SEN on March 30, 1997 in front of the former-National Assembly building in Phnom Penh, Cambodia As for Khmer nation, both inside and outside Cambodian country, also remember forever about the violent terrorism ordered by the terrorists leader Hun Sen, attacked Khmer demonstration calling for the reform the justice system lead by the opposition party leader_ Sam Rainsy. They were attacked in Cambodia on 30th, March, 1997 in front of the former-National Assembly building. This led to at least 20 deaths and 150 injuries, transforming a grassy field into a bloody tableau of panic and mayhem [6]. Until the present day, U.S. Policy on Counterterrorism was spread throughout the world, but there are no international criminal court bring the terrorists’ leader Hun-Sen to sentence yet. Furthermore, Heng Pov revealed in his statement that “ Prime Minister HUN SEN ordered his chief bodyguards name Huy Piseth to use hand grenades to attack on the rally demonstration calling for reform of the justice system in Cambodia led by the opposition leader Sam Rainsy on March 30, 1997 [7]. (Heng Pov was the former-chief of the Police Commissioner of Phnom Penh, then he became the Major General of Ministry of Interior ’s Under Secretary of State, and Personal Advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen until 27 July, 2006). Today, only two strong terrorists organizations are still lasting in the world _ CPP (Cambodian People ’s Party) led by the terrorists leader HUN SEN and Isis led by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi . How are strong between CPP and ISIS? CPP led by HUN SEN ISIS led by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi The Cambodian People’s Party is formerly The The Islamic State of Iraq and the Kampuchean People’s Revolutionary Party Levant (ISIL), also translated as The (KPRP). Who built KPRP? Ho Chi Minh build Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Indochina Communists Party in February, 1930 also known by the Arabic acronym. in the purpose of ruling and swallowing ISIS is a Sunni extremist, jihadist Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam) instead of rebel group based in Iraq and Syria, French Colony. Son Ngoc Minh (Nguyeng Yang where it controls territory. By 2011, Mieng) was sent to built Khmer People’s when the US troop withdrawal was Revolutionary Party (KPRP) on June 28, 1951, complete, Al-Qaeda was being run by called Khmer Viet Minh. Ho Chi Minh’s troop_ Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, and has Viet Cong and North Vietnam’s troops stationed morphed from a largely foreign to a 3 their army and made their military strongholds in largely Iraqi operation. [11]. Cambodia increased to 72,000 men [8] with the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi modern weapon after King Norodom Sihanouk has declared himself "Caliph was ousted from the head of state of Cambodia Ibrahim", and goes by the title by the Coup d’ tate on March 18, 1970 at that "Commander of the Faithful" [12]. é time Khmer Republic had only 40 battalions of The United Nations has held ISIL volunteers recruited for the armed forces without responsible for human rights abuses, arms (refer to Major General Sisowat Siri Matak, and Amnesty International has Cambodia’s deputy premier) [9]. On April, 1975, reported ethnic cleansing by the Viet Cong, Viet Minh and North Vietnam’s group on a "historic scale". The group troops destroyed Khmer Republic and they has been designated as a terrorist occupied Phnom Penh, Cambodia, then they organization by the United Nations , massacred 3 millions of Cambodian people and the European Union , the United they labeled themselves as Khmer Rouge or Kingdom, the United States, Kampuchea Democratic.
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