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Al-Qaeda

Osama bin Laden explained the origin of the term in a videotaped interview with al Jazeera journalist Tayseer Alouni in October 2001:

"The name 'al-Qaeda' was established a long time ago by mere chance. The late Abu Ebeida El-Banashiri established the training camps for our mujahedeen against Russia's terrorism. We used to call the training camp al-Qaeda. The name stayed."

The origins of the group can be traced to the period following the Revolutionary War in Afghanistan of April 1978, which brought revolutionary Marxists to power. The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan as an integral Cold War struggle, and the American and Pakistani intelligence services supported native Afghan mujahedeen against Soviet occupation through a CIA program called Operation Cyclone.

At the same time, a growing number of foreign Arab mujahedeen joined the ongoing counterrevolution against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, in international organizations such as Maktab al-Khidamat.

Whether US aid to Afghan mujahedeen also extended to foreign Arab fighters, such as groups affiliated with Osama bin Laden, remains a matter of some dispute. The U.S. government maintains that they supported only the indigenous mujahedeen, and that bin Laden's participation in the conflict was unrelated to CIA programs. This assertion was seconded by al-Qaeda's Deputy Operations ChiefAyman al-Zawahiri in his book Knights Under the Prophet's Banner.