International terrorist network of Islamic fundamentalists. Spun off from mujahideen in 1988 by CIA asset Osama bin Laden to carry the holy war beyond Afghanistan. 

Osama bin Laden and the mujahideen had been previously trained, supported, financed, and armed in 1979 by the CIA.  Personally visited by President Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1979, bin Laden and the mujahideen were encouraged to foment revolution and armed resistance within Afghanistan against the Soviet Union.

Al-qaeda were later responsible for the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, and the bombing of the destroyer U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000.

Al-Qaeda offered and provided ideological guidance and financial assistance to the Taliban.

Al-Qaeda was blamed for the September 11 Terrorist Attacks.

National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, photographed while apparently giving marksmanship lessons to CIA operative Tim Osman (Osama bin Laden), at a mountainous mujahideen training camp in Afghanistan, 1979.

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