The CIA created Islamic Fundamentalism in 1979. It was a way to draw the Soviet Union into a war with Afghanistan. It gave the Soviets their "Vietnam War" so to speak. It destroyed their economy and dispelled support of Communism.
During the war, the US, UK, and Pakistan all supported groups of Arab fighters - the 'Mujahedeen'. Two of these freedom-fighters were Ramzi Yousef, and Osama bin Laden. Books printed by the University of Nebraska and paid for by the U.S. Department of Education taught the Mujahedeen radical theories of Islam and treated them to math problems and literature exercises riddled with allusions to guns, bombs, tanks... just overall, general killing. They trained them to be violent, and then they wonder why they became terrorists.
After the Soviets withdrew, the Mujahedeen were left without political support in a war-torn, impoverished, and socially unstable nation-state. So they started a second resistance movement - this time aimed toward the United States. And the primary group formed at this time, in the late eighties was al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda was an intelligence operation from the start... straight up to now. From its inception, Al Qaeda was trained, funded, armed, and supported by the Pakistani intelligence agency, the ISI. The ISI, by its own disclosure, is an arm of the American CIA.
Iran-Contra channeled money to states already considered terrorist-nations, like Iran, Iraq, Libya, and Lebanon. And as the other half, trillions of dollars in illegal narcotics have made their way into this country, from the Middle East, the Far East and Latin America. It shows a pattern of fraud and complicity by the U.S. Government to promote instability abroad, to further their domestic agenda.
The mainstream media typically ignore this connection, of course.
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