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Originally Posted by chilcutt
How did al-Qaida, a tiny anti-communist group in Afghanistan that had no more than 200 members in 2001 become a supposed worldwide threat ?
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http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/articles/07spring/eikmeier.pdf
The presented premise is false, it never was as described. Al Qaeda is simply one of the more recent manifestations along a continuum of Islamo-Supremism a direct offspring of al-Banna and Qutb's Muslim Brotherhood, that can be traced directly back at least to the 1700's of Shah Waliullah and the school Darul Uloom Deoband of the late 1800's, but realistically extends all to way back to Islam's the 7th century founding.
All of which dominated Islamo-Supremist ideology for centuries before even the idea of modern Israel!