“Al-Qaeda began as a logistical network to support Muslims fighting against the
Soviet Union during the
Afghan War….. Based in Sudan for a period in the early 1990s, the group eventually reestablished its headquarters in Afghanistan (
c. 1996) under the patronage of the
Taliban militia.”
Al-Qaeda, broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. It began as a logistical network to support Muslims fighting against the Soviet Union during the Afghan War and transformed into the active terrorist organization known for carrying out the...
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You don’t know what you are speaking about, al qaeda was primarily a group focused in Afghanistan, it has deep ties to the taliban, the two are basically inseperatable as seen by the taliban’s decision to go to war with america over not disowning al qaeda.