Al Qaeda

Brief Summary of Al Qaeda in My Words:

A fringe group led by former CIA trainee Osama Bin Laden, heir to his father's $10 Billion oil enterprise. Al Qaeda was concieved by a group of men who's early intentions went awry when their contract from the CIA was cut and were let loose with nothing but Bin Laden's inherited fortune. Since cutting ties to the US Government, the group has lashed out in very public ways.


The PC Definition:


The "My Words" definition are just my own opinions, so don't be a drooler and ask me for a source, you're not getting one!

Now, your views!

You need to add another choice my opinion is "Muslim Freedom Fighters with wrong interpretation of Jihad but have a cause.

Exactly

I made a slight mistake on the bold part, that I edited up there somewhere:

From: "with much error"

To: "without error"

I never understood one thing everyone says bin laden worked for the usa. Yet isnt he the one who says everyone who works with usa are enemies of islam?? Is it actully true he worked for usa?

encouraging...very encouraging. (not the sacrcasm)

Osama Bin Laden was trained and equipped by CIA operatives throughout the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989), and I've also heard that the CIA and Bin Laden kept close relations up to 1992.

He was the US/CIA poster boy for fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, so, in term, he was working for them.

This question was a bit funny:

Um, when money, power, oil, a relationship, and lives are on the line, you tend to say whatever you can to keep things up.

I won't vote in this because there is not a response for blood thirsty murderers.

bin Laden was never a poster boy for the US.

bin Laden may have received US supplies or cash in the Afgan war days through Pakistani intelligence, but as far as I know there is never any proof the US dealt with him directly.

The US was simply interested in giving the Soviet Union its "Vietnam."

Note: Please keep insulting comments to your selfs especially the muslims lets keep this cival.

The thread asked for my thoughts on AQ. My thoughts are they are blood thirsty murderers.

Anyone who would accept a monster like al-Zarqawi into their ranks cannot be out to do good things.

Let me know when they stop intentionally targeting children, women and innocent civilians then I may begin to look at them as more "freedom fighter" like.

Noun: scumbags.

Better?

Who is insulting?

Yeah, I don't know where this "CIA trained and equipped Bin Laden" myth comes from, but I suppose it makes a good conspiracy. The CIA supposedly aided the anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan, but I don't think anyone knows the extent of it or what aid was actually given, besides some fairly high-tech anti-tank missiles that somehow made its way into the region..lol.