To what extent is Al-Qaeda a creation of the CIA?

For some reason, people get upset when someone suggests that all Muslims are terrorists but nobody bats an eye when it is suggested all Afghan anti-Soviet fighters became al Qaeda or Taliban. Yet it is no more accurate than the first statement. read more

So anyone trying to argue that UBL and al-Qaeda are friends of the CIA has to explain why the Clinton administration was ordering cruise missile strikes against him. 6. The argument that the CIA created Al Qaeda or trained Al Qaeda is nonsensical. read more

Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook wrote “Throughout the 80s [bin Laden] was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. read more

CIA created al-Qaeda and gave $3 BILLION to Osama bin Laden The US government trained, armed, funded and supported Osama bin Laden and his followers in Afghanistan during the cold war. With a huge investment of $3,000,000,000 (three billion US dollars), the CIA effectively created and nurtured bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network using American tax-payers money. read more