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Osama bin Laden Creates al Qaeda Terrorist Group
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In the late 1980s, Osama bin Laden founded Al Qaeda. He attracted people who believed that Islam was being repressed by the western world and Al Qaeda, in their view, was a way for them to fight back. Listen to The War Office Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or The War Office Podcast YouTube Channel.
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As Al-Qaeda was in its infancy, bin
Laden published statements and speeches
and grew his ideological standing while
forging alliances with other insurgent
groups across the Muslim world. And
Al-Qaeda came around in the late 1980s
as really a way for like-minded people,
people who believed that Islam was being
repressed by the Western world and this
was a way for them to fight back.