Quote Originally Posted by pseudolus View Post
Ah ha. So you actually think Al Qaeda existed then?

it was the name given to a database of suspected non friendly fighters.
As said by Robin Cook, the resigned UK's FM, unfortunately, has not lived long after his speech in UK parliament:

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by Western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Cook