How does the terrorist group Al-Qaeda select their targets and what is their motivation?

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 12.0, Aalborg University (Culture and Global Studies), language: English, abstract: The paper sets out to show the link between the attacked targets and motivations of Al-Qaeda (AQ) as a terrorist group. It introduces AQ and outlines its goal of establishing an Islamic Caliphate and the immediate...