It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by greenWeenie
reply to post by DanteMustDie
Oh my goodness, are you really still falling for this stuff?
Originally posted by greenWeenie
reply to post by R3N3G4D3
what?
between August 1988[11] and late 1989.[12] It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army[13] and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad. It has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, NATO, and various other countries (see below).
Al-Qaeda has attacked civilian and military targets in various countries, such as the September 11 attacks, 1998 US embassy bombings and 2002 Bali bombings. The US government responded by launching the War on Terror. Al-Qaeda has continued to exist and grew through the decade from 2001 to 2011.[14]
Characteristic techniques include suicide attacks and simultaneous bombings of different targets.[15] Activities ascribed to it may involve members of the movement, who have taken a pledge of loyalty to Osama bin Laden, or the much more numerous "al-Qaeda-linked" individuals who have undergone training in one of its camps in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq or Sudan, but not taken any pledge.[16]
Al-Qaeda ideologues envision a complete break from all foreign influences in Muslim countries, and the creation of a new Islamic world wide caliphate. Reported beliefs include that a Christian-Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam,[17] which is largely embodied in the U.S.-Israel alliance, and that the killing of bystanders and civilians is religiously justified in jihad.
Originally posted by Chewingonmushrooms
You mean CIA funded Al Qaeda? The group that mysteriously shows up in places that are vital to our national interests, and the very reason for the faux that is the "war on terror", that group?
Long after that time passed, the CIA abandoned them... Mission accomplished.
Originally posted by steveknows
So al Qaeda says it did it which it said from the start. And the experts say al Qaeda did it. But no not good enough. Oh how pathetic is the truther!