Thursday, November 12, 2009

How was Al Qaeda formed?

Al Qaeda was formed in 1988 by veterans of the Anti-Soviet civil war in Afghanistan, with the purpose of exporting the victory worldwide. Azzam was the deputy of the organization. When Azzam was killed in 1989, Bin Laden took full control of the organization. Between 1991 and 1996, Al Qaeda had its headquarters in Sudan, where it had friendly relations with the national islamic front. The international pressure forced Osama Bin Laden to move back to Afghanistan in 1996, where it allied with Taliban. In late 2001, most of the training camps owned by Osama Bin Laden were destroyed, and the organization became diffused meaning it split up and some recolated in Iran, some in Pakistan, and some in the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Many of the ones who relocated to Pakistan were caught but the few or many who went to Iran remain unclear and not found. Al Qaeda's main purpose is to spread jihad worldwide through a number of means including funding guerilla movements, using propaganda aimed to people to use acts of terrorism, and organizing complex attacks on countries who oppose it. The organization is funded mostly by charitable donations. Before 9/11, the organization had an annual budget of about $30 million. The U.S. State Department declared Al-Qaeda a "foreign terrorist organization" in October of 1999.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/al-qaeda.htm

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