Operation Neptune Spear Operation Neptune Spear was a mission assigned to the U.S. Seal Team Six by President Obama at the time. The objective was to raid the home of Osama Bin Laden, a terrorist leader operating a group called Al Qaeda, whose main focus was on terrorism and establishing Islamic culture. Why, on September 11, 2001, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, costing the lives of 3,000 people. In addition, it was learned that it was a suicide attack planned by the corrupt leader Osama, leaving the United Nations to take measures into their own hands. Bin Laden targeted the United States for reasons surrounding jealousy, one was the fact that Saudi Arabia relied on U.S. troops for protection and supplies during the Persian war. Osama believed that Al Qaeda would be enough to…show more content… thought. The attack also led to a decade of car bombings, some even suicidal, including kidnappings and assassinations against anyone against their movement. In the making, it made Osama Bin Laden the most wanted man on the planet with a bounty set at $25 million. Bin Laden raised his aggression towards Western expatriate workers living in the kingdom, blaming it on the illicit alcohol trade. Behind this, more than 60 people were slaughtered, after a deadly spate of attacks on expatriate housing designed to drive out the westerners. Bin Laden knew that if he wanted to grow he had to continue his inadequate ways but with such a bounty on him he was forced to go into hiding, continuously running their operation. Bin Laden's influence played a huge part in his acts, convincing his people that the way he thought and what he believed was only right, he knew it was easy for him to gain the support of people by promising them “what they deserved.” After gaining more influence even behind closed doors, Al Qaeda would be ordered to target Riyadh housing compounds, murdering forty
