That terrorist group works for US intelligence, whatever the name it is. Once it was Majahideem, resistent group, or then Islam extremist and terrorist. Al Qaida is a convenient name for them after 911. For the purpose of propaganda. The group exists for a long time with different label. But whatever the name is, it works for the interest of US intelligence as a false flag.
Here is another reference. Though Robin Cook died of "natural disease" because he told truth.
Quote, "There Is No 'Al Qaeda' - Ex UK Foreign Secretary
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"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . ."
-- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
Robin Cook died in August 2005 of a severe heart attack while mountain climbing in Scotland.
Wikipedia wrote:Robert Finlayson Cook (28 February 1946 - 6 August 2005), better known as Robin Cook, was a politician in the British Labour Party. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from his post as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council on 17 March 2003 in protest against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the time of his death he was president of the Foreign Policy Centre and a vice-president of the America All Party Parliamentary Group and the Global Security and Non-Proliferation All Party Parliamentary Group...
In a column for the Guardian four weeks before his death, Cook caused a stir when he described Al-Qaeda as a product of a western intelligence:
“ Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.[13] ”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11487