Operation cyclone by the CIA (plus extra help from the Saudis) funneled funds and weaponry through Pakistan to Bin Laden (a rich Saudi). It essentially created and organised MaK (that would later become Al Qaeda) by funding and training Islamic militants in Afghanistan to fight and overthrow the Marxist government of Afghanistan.
After the government fell, the Taliban took control, Bin Laden officially created Al Qaeda, flipped sides, and became anti-Saudi and anti-America because the Saudis were too tight with the US troops, preferencing them over Bin Laden’s, in operation desert shield in the Gulf War. Well that’s the story anyway…
By this point Al Qaeda were getting mad at all the US intervention in the middle east but it’s pretty clear the US was acting as a proxy for Israel here, because Israel had “security concerns” about Iraq’s nuclear program and had even bombed their nuclear program in the years before, in 1981…
So we could say Al Qaeda is a result of Israeli interference already back then
Now we see the same story playing out again with Iran
You don’t need to speculate. Al Qaida is a direct result of foreign intervention in Afghanistan one generation previously.
Operation cyclone by the CIA (plus extra help from the Saudis) funneled funds and weaponry through Pakistan to Bin Laden (a rich Saudi). It essentially created and organised MaK (that would later become Al Qaeda) by funding and training Islamic militants in Afghanistan to fight and overthrow the Marxist government of Afghanistan.
After the government fell, the Taliban took control, Bin Laden officially created Al Qaeda, flipped sides, and became anti-Saudi and anti-America because the Saudis were too tight with the US troops, preferencing them over Bin Laden’s, in operation desert shield in the Gulf War. Well that’s the story anyway…
By this point Al Qaeda were getting mad at all the US intervention in the middle east but it’s pretty clear the US was acting as a proxy for Israel here, because Israel had “security concerns” about Iraq’s nuclear program and had even bombed their nuclear program in the years before, in 1981…
So we could say Al Qaeda is a result of Israeli interference already back then
Now we see the same story playing out again with Iran