Who are Al-Qaeda? | 5 Minute History Episode 11
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Perhaps the most infamous of all Islamist groups, what do Al-Qaeda actually want and where do they come from? In this video I look at their origins in the Afghan-Soviet War (1979-1989), the creation of the group in 1988 and involvement in the Global Jihad, its place during the Gulf War and relations with Saudi Arabia, the plans of Osama Bin Laden and the attacks in East Africa before the infamous attack on New York (and other places) on the 11th of September 2001, the 9/11 Attacks. Find out more here!
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To clarify. A fatwa isn't a declaration of Religious war. A fatwa is just a religious ruling, something Bin-Laden was completely unqualified to make, as he wasn't a religious scholar.
Millions of muslims would disagree and see his standing to issue and the fatwa itself as legitimate. There are also millions of muslims who would agree with you. But this is essentially two islamic Lebowskis saying “that’s just your opinion, man.” Except one of them has a bomb
@@Fuckthis0341 Oh for sure, there's plenty of Muslims around the world who would disagree with me, hell some even call the guy "sheikh" (meaning something like teacher, or master).
@@Fuckthis0341 Evidently, the majority didn't adhere to Bin Laden's illegitimate fatwa.
@@satzchel The vast vast vast majority
@@aaronblygh4719 The vast vast majority of Muslims aren't Ibadi either so what's your point. Most Muslims were more upset with Macron's words than the beheading of Samuel Paty.
Your pronunciation of Al-Qaeda has improved.
It's about getting the foundation right.
Was about time
@@historywithhilbert146 Try pronouncing the Q like you’re choking on something…That’ll pretty much make the pronunciation correct. You’ve come along way though!
Who gives a fuck how its pronounced, unless youd consider taking the consideration for the correct pronunciation of nazi
Really makes you think 🤔
5:23 lmao. Never realised you were a Geordie like.
Love from the Boro
Wrong flag that’s Yemen 🇾🇪 not Sudan 🇸🇩.
Got confused too lol
I thought why is there the ww1 German flag
Same shit idc
He used a flag of India that funded islamists? Seems weird to me since its Hindu majority is clashing with its muslim minority
@@Mark-ft4jtCountries sometimes do weird things,
This was a great video, really good job at overall explaining the whole concept and all. You did a fantastic job with correlating events to the overall impact fantastically. Keep up the amazing work.
How could Salafism come from Qutbism when Qutb was founded in the 1950's in Egypt while Salafism was founded in the 1740's in the Arabian Peninsula?
@Piet Hein Osama bin Laden was raised on the Salafism of Saudia Arabia, but later was introduced to Qutbism and jihadism by Mohammad Qutb, the brother of the Sayyid Qutb. He left Salafism for Qutbism. This would be similar to a Christian growing up Baptist and then changing to Seventh-day Adventist.
The founder of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri from Egypt, is also a Qutbi.
Al-Qaeda is based on Qutbism, and ISIS was a breakaway faction that also follows Qutbism. Western media invented the link with Salafism.
The Taliban are very different, as they belong to the legit Deobandi movement of the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam, which is followed by many in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. It is not a jihadist movement. The jihadism of the Taliban was borne out of necessity due to foreign invasions of Afghanistan.
@@adamhunterdavidson Zawahiri wasn't as much Qutbist as much of a "Shukrist" as he was affiliated with Jamat-Al-Jihad which was the next incarnation after Shukri Mustapha's JTWH ended, and that was its own thing that took from everyone
@@adamhunterdavidson both of these ideologies created modern day terrorism
@-Agent 👍🏼
He probably mean “salafi jihadism”
Love this series.
I think you have enough videos now to warrant a 5 minute history playlist
Thank you for another fantastic and informative video.
Another interesting video
One thing you got wrong is that osama was invited by one of the northern alliance warlords ,abdul rasul sayaf, to come to afghanistan. He later on moved to the areas controlled by the taliban.
Afghanistan was in a conflict with the northern alliance and Taliban.
I never knew that the presence of American troops in Saudi Arabia was what kind of ignoted that movement
Very good explanation
These videos are great. I read a book on Osama Bin Laden and, whilst it gave me a good grounding on who he was, it didn't actually mention that Al-Qaeda offered to protect Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. Thanks, hermano - keep up the great work!
they are partly wrong or this one at least. Qutbism was created in the 1950s by a member of the Muslim Brotherhood while Salafism was founded around the 1740s (its the same thing as Wahhabism). Qutbism calls for people to start islamic jihad while Salafism is just to make people reach islamic purity and western media always mix the 2 even though they are different.
@@tortoisewarrior4855 They can both be interpreted as strict branches of Islam tho
Saudi is Wahhabist Salafis, Al-Qaeda is Qubtist Salafist.
4:29 I seen this guy in a Rucka Rucka Ali video and didn’t know who he was….until now😂
Love your video as usual.
If you are doing a terrorism series, then you must make a video on the United States Military: The biggest terrorist group in the world.
Um no they aren’t?
Oh, you're one of *those* people. Feel good being a self righteous prick?
@@alexanderthegreat445 yes they are. The United States army is one of the largests terrrorist organisations in history. Perhaps only second to the british empire. America is a country built on gencoide and destruction. It has been bombing civilisations indiscriminately since Hiroshima Nagasaki. They have no value at all for human life. Ethics and morals are something foreign to the US government. They have spread terror throughout the globe. Philippines, Guatemala, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, the list goes on. Biggest terrorists in the world. Al Qaeda are also terrorists, but small scale compared to America.
@@nobudgetcomments2742 You're a NeoCon lol
@@georgelincolnrockwell4659 wow, you can determine someone's political beliefs from a single comment that doesn't even mention politics!? Neat party trick.
Well that was an unsettling ending!
Sudan is improving now the sanctions have been lifted. Hope Afghanistan too
@@joshjohnson2600 huh😳😶
@@joshjohnson2600 ohh😳
@@joshjohnson2600 forgive me if you arent ok with this question its just my personal curiosity, why did you become a security contractor instead of a soldier for your country? or were you a chef or mechanic cause i heard they are almost always contracted.
@@joshjohnson2600Sounds like another name for mercenary to me
@@joshjohnson2600 im not doubting what you say, i know central africa is screwed up with some sort of religious conflict right now and its nice hearing someone is trying to help, im a bit interested in whats going on there is there a sight that talks about it cause the guys i watch rarely talk about the conflicts in africa especially anything south of the sahara
The fact that you didn't mention the early cia training and funding of bin-ladin and other key figures is a major gap in the story 🙄
Except it really isn't, nice troll tho
Last time I was this early Afghanistan was under Taliban rule...in the 90s that is
I never knew that Saudi Arabia's rejection of Osama was why he went to Sudan
And saudi arabia sudan relations soured till 2015
Well there still unanswered questions why he went their. But the main offical narrative was that he was invited by a Sudanese islamist named hassan al Turabi who took power in a 1989 coup which put the Omar Bashir regime in power. Groups like Abu Nidal and Hezbollah also Hamas and Carlos the jackal were harbored their and the islamic Jihad which Sudan's intelligence assisted them in trying to assassinate Honsi Mubarak in 1995 in Ethopia
My Uncle, who worked for General Zini, in Yemen 2000, said to Zini that they shouldn’t have boats like the USS Cole so close, guess we know what happened then eh?
Right? I mean it was so close it's almost like it was there on a routine refueling stop or somethi-- oh wait
Did you also know that they tried to blow up the USS Sullivan during the millennium plot which was supposed to be a larger terrorist operation and bombings happened in jordan and a hijacking in india, clashes in Lebanon between forces and radical islamist, then with Ahmed Rassem a algerian who was a member of the Algerian armed islamic group
I’m most intrigued by Afghanistan‘s story but I hate how confused I am by almost everything, the amount of groups, the groups within the groups…. Ugh, I’m still here though
One important correction, the Taliban did not simply "refuse to hand over bin Laden". They asked the US to provide evidence (this was only a month after the 9/11 attacks) and first offered to try him in an Afgan court, as he was in Afganistan when he commited his crimes, and then offered to hand him to a neutral country for extradition and asked the US to stop bombing their country.
@Ibrahim Suleman if a Muslim is a criminal he is brought to justice
@Ibrahim Suleman Osama good? 😂😂😂
pretty much yea
Sure, but the united states didn't just want bin laden they wanted al qaeda as well.
@gasenjoyer...4594
Al qaeda was founded in 1988 my guy.
4:12 the Talbian did not refuse to give up Bin Laden, they gave the US 3 different opportunities to give up Osama, but it was the US who rejected them
Taliban also told the Americans to provide evidence against osama which they didn't provide
The US government already made up their mind on the invasion but the unstoppable tide of Islam is superior than any other military or economic power.
@@NaderBerbish keep telling yourself that, bud.
@@osamabinlackin1556 no Taliban dont told that
Yes i agree with you
5:25
up the toon
4:52 : Why is India there along with the other muslim countries who directly or indirectly helped Al-Qaeda getting arms and financing??
They planned terrorist attacks on Pakistan during time of war.
And Pakistan did the same.
Not tge indian state but the internal support from india
Zawahiri just died today.
I would be interested in seeing a video on Iraqi history and Kurdish history next
@- EVIL Bro, stop hating on this channel
Before their more famous attack in 2001, Al-Qaeda attempted another attack on the World Trade Center that involved blowing up trucks in the underground garage to cause it to collapse. I think this was in the same timeframe as their attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
That wasn't the taliban
@@ramel684 no, but this video is about Al-Qaeda. Isn't that who attempted the first bombing, or one of their affiliated groups?
My mistake, I updated my original post.
The World Trade Center bombing was in 1993. The US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania were in 1998. Yes, both were carried out by men associated with al Qaeda. The bomb builder from the 1993 WTC bombing, known as Ramzi Yousef, is the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the two, who are both engineers, hatched the basic planes-as-missiles plot in the Philippines in 1994 along with fellow Baloch al Qaeda associate and pilot Abdul Hakim Murad. This was around the same time that the al Qaeda linked Algerian Fighting Group (GIA) hijacked a plane in a failed attempt to crash it into the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
@@abelashes2676 yousef wasnt the real mastermind of 1993 but was actually El Sayyid Nossair who had no association with al qaeda or Osama bin laden even before the Blind sheikh came to the US til 1990. That's what their covering up. Nossair was under surveillance by the FBI since 1989 and had prior terrorist activities. Al qaeda in 1989 wasnt a organization yet and the Soviets withdrawled. Bin laden returns back to his home country.
I know this isnt the topic of the video, but will you do more native American videos?
Do on Northern alliance and Northern alliance vs Taliban
dramatic pause 5:53
I was wondering that too lol
Bin Laden shouldve joined the NBA, he was 1.95 m
2:16 wrong flag
That's Yemen
It's worrisome how they are experiencing a resurgence now
why have you commented on this video so many times
@@duncanvolpe2571 because it works
@@micahistory ok
A resurgence ! They are larger than they have ever been . Training camps in every province in Afghanistan . Al-Qaeda is the biggest terror organization in the world .
4:50 - audio says "support from muslim countries", but graphic shows (among others) the flag of India.
While I'm in no position to say whether Al Quaeda received support from the general direction of India, I'm quite sure that it - at least as a whole - does NOT qualify as a muslim country.
India has 2nd largest muslim population but 80% of people in India ( 110 crore ) follows Hinduism.
So muslims in India has supported Al queda
editing mistake at 5:54
Around 3000 people died on 9/11, not 2000.
For the Algorithm!
at 3:19 you have a bit of white still leftover on the top from i guess cutting it out from somewhere, maybe it was that way already wherever you got it. just wanted to tell you, since these things are hard to notice sometimes, but when they are noticed they lead to the viewer being irritated everytime they see it again.
About Osama Bin Laden being pissed that Americans were in the Holy Land to fight a Muslim war - I imagine Americans wouldn't be fond of the Russian Government or the British, for that matter, if either sent their own soldiers to America to fight for American freedom; or vice versa.
Edit: It's pretty standard for all people to distaste those who purport to fight their battles for them, right?
If America was invaded by Mexico (unrealistic but I can't see who else would want to invade them) and Britain sent troops to help, I sincerely doubt America would complain. They certainly wouldn't create some sort of terrorist organisation which opposes Britain.
@Ibrahim Suleman because the Americans pay the saudis to sell their oil in dollars so as to increase the value of the dollar, and they also force other Arab countries to do the same. Not long after saddam hussein and gaddafi tried to switch from dollars they both got crushed. Similarly bashar al assad wants his oil pipeline to go through Russia as opposed to the balkans, so civil war.
You forgot to mention funding they had from unitec states.....
Al-Qaeda means "the foundation". anyone else immediatly think of the SCP Foundation when he said that.
Nope
It's horrible how many people they killed
CIA be like
_pretend like we’re not here literally funding everything_
Saudi government be like: *pretend like we're not here literally funding ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Taliban*
@@taavidude because they are not
The equivalent of losing your wallet and guns in a boating accident?
@@NoName-rr9ll They are. Saudi-Arabia is the biggest supporter of terrorism in the world.
@@taavidude all of the groups you mentioned are anti saudi
5:30 note: Ayam Al-Zawahiri has since been killed in Afghanistan 🇦🇫
The war hammer 40k lore is easier to understand than this lol
You forgot to mention how Al Qaeda went militant after the assassination of Azzam. With him alive the world would be very different.
"naval bombardments of afghan bases"
how in the dingdong do you navally bombard a landlocked country??
Ships have guided missiles
Have you ever heard of an ICBM?
At 4:56 I see the flag of India, did the goverment have a hand in this or private citizens?
I think Modi would go berserk to see the Indian flag linked with the phrase 'Moslem countries'
@@DraigBlackCat except Iran and UAE they like them very much
Something tells me that with the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan things might be the way they were before.
I think the Afghan and the Sudanese flags are wrong
Haven’t you already done one on Al-Qaeda?????
Salafism/Wahhabism started in the 1740s in Najd. Most of the Arabian Peninsula was not controlled by the Ottoman Empire. Only Mecca and Medina. Muhammad Ibn Al Wahab and Muhammad Ibn Al Saud created the first two Saudi States and fought against the Ottomans, losing twice.
Qubtism was an ideological faction within the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s.
Neither exist. Us Muslims don’t claim or acknowledge the existence of these groups, these groups are made and created by non Muslims to cause division within Islam. In Islam you cannot be a Muslim belonging to a sect. The prophet Muhammad said in a authentic Hadith that all 72 sects will enter hell except 1 suggesting the one sect are the people who follow Quran and sunnah only and don’t affiliate theme selves with false sects
Hi
salafism isnt extreme, its kharijism which is extreme and ppl tend to confuse these 2
Give me usool of khawarij then if you make our blood halal
Just to Clarify not all salafis are extremists or support Isis taliban ect the majority of muslims are actualiteit salafi! But they call themselves sunni (cause they are the same) salafisme isnt extreme its just that extremist groups use it
4:03 how afghan naval bombardments if afghanistan i landlocked?
Big guns
Naval artillery can go really far, plus cruise missiles and all that shit
@@nobudgetcomments2742 480km! wth
@@vve5174 maybe tomahawk or he meant jet's flew from aircraft carrier to its target which is easily possible
Salafism wasn't derived from Qutbism 🤦♂️
Day fucking 1000000000 of telling people that the crescent and star symbol isn't the symbol of islam.
I'll bite my tongue off the day a self claimed armchair historian youtuber finally gets it right.
I’ve read (don’t remember which publication) that the Taliban at a point offered to turn Bin Laden to the US but were refused. Is that correct?
Apparently they never really refused to turn him in. The problem is that Taliban wanted evidence before they could turn him over. In essence, they were not prepared to turn him over a word
I have no clue
My cousin has some history huh
The funniest thing of all about the Gulf War criticism from UBL, is that US forces were never stationed anywhere near the Hijaz. Funny are still he’s dead.
@Ibrahim Suleman Neat thing about being a (mostly former) Arabic speaker, one time active hunter and destroyer of AQ lives, respectful admirer of the culture, huge fan of King Abdullah II, and genuine scholar of the region… American troops were never stationed anywhere near the Hijaz… the Nejd and eastern KSA are hardly considered holy or Haram by either scholars or the national authorities or other regional governments… and once Usama was kindly shown the door by KSA, I doubt he would have considered the Al Saud legitimate custodians. The true born family members of the Bin Ladens ignored their youngest (barely) brother. His sons are either dead or disowned him long ago. And while IS is far worse than AQ, it’s been proven time and again that their guerilla jihad is unsustainable and easily defeated each time it attempts to come back. They have been good practice.
Peace to you. But it’s best that you read a map of traditional and historical significance rather than garbage interpretations of modern borders once made disproven and dishonored dead men more than 30 years ago.
@Ibrahim Suleman I know enough to know that you’re defending AQ while trying real hard to not be on a watch list.
I do know history. And I do know that amongst the many terrible things to come out of WWI… the Soviet Union, Sikes-Picot, facism, and others… the biggest tragedy for me remains the loss of the Hashemite Kingdom of the Hijaz to the Al Saud family. One must wonder how Islam might have evolved under the secular rule of a dynasty of direct descendants of your Prophet (PBUH) and the original custodians of all three holy cities and sites.
@Ibrahim Suleman I said you’re being very “mujtahid” trying to defend false reasons for jihad. But all it takes for radicalization is being a sad lonely virgin and an Internet connection
@Ibrahim Suleman The valid criticism of the Al Saud is amongst my favorite things but it’s possible to criticize them without defending a more violent form of Islamic supremacy.
0:46 Marxist-leninist*
Oh a hoi4 Al queada empire mod would be fun
This is the first comment
Well with Millenium Dawn you already can if i remember correctly
How would that even work with a non-state actor
In the millenium dawn mod, saudi arabia has a focus tree and you can become al qaeda/isis. It also let's you invade a lot of muslim countries. I conquered the whole Arabian peninsula, Iraq, Syria (which was really difficult because Iran supported them until syria attacked hamas) and Lebanon before I gave up because of guarantees of independence limiting my opportunities. You also get ways to integrate these countries as cores using political power.
Also if you choose yo become al qaeda/isis as saudi arabia in 2000, your leader is Osama bin laden.
9/11 killed almost 3,000 people, not 2,000. And normally I wouldn't be such a know-it-all about that, but when discussing human lives, 2,977 is a far cry from 2,000.
Their was two Fatwas on in 1996 and the other in 1988
5 minute history
Video is 6 minutes
Can you please explain why you put the map of India as a sponsor of Al Qaeda in 5:04 ?? If anything India has been the biggest victim of radical Islamist terrorism by different groups in Kashmir and rest of the subcontinent. Even the other day there was a attack on Hindus and Sikhs by these terrorists
What about the '93 WTC bombing? I think you missed that.
Al-Qaeda means 'the Base'
So if calling them a religious cult wrong?
Yes my brother it is. Nothing is stopping you from saying so, but it is rude to say that.
Islam itself a Cult
You got the flag of Sudan 🇸🇩 wrong
No, that was the flag of Yemen not Sudan because he also mentioned Yemen.
There was no mention of yemen whatsoever
1:35
4:57 what is india doing here?
They supported them, duh
@@saniaamirbaaz8850 nope india never supports terror
@@shoubhiksaha2788 Innocent india would never support terrorists such as the BLA, Mukti Bahini and the Tamil tigers.
@@saifullahshahbaz5776 yep we support freedom fighters who get freedom like Bangladesh, soon coming sindh balochistan
@@shoubhiksaha2788 yes, and those same freedom fighters killed and deported Hindus, Urdu speakers, Biharis etc from Bangladesh. Good job 👍 Just search up the demographic of Hindus in Bangladesh ever since their independence. Their population is still decreasing. Since 1951, Hindus in Pakistan have a growing demographic and temples for Hindus are being reopened, by Imran khan himself. Get the facts through your thick skull and stop watching Shitty Indian news.
And also, cope. Sindh and Balochistan "seperatists" who have committed actual ethnic cleansing and are designated terror groups by the US, have been trying for 70 years to no avail.
why didn't you mention that the mujahiden including osama bin laden were trained by the CIA? this is crucial information
when did india supoort al qaeda as said in the picture?
It’s six minutes.....
guys why is a plane coming right at m-
The base is based
⥊ Mental (State) Control
Terrorists are here.
Porto Alegre - Brazil
Why is India there? We never supported the Taliban or Al-Qaeda.
Hundreds of indian born fighters were part of the group. The flags don’t mean state support but membership according to nationality
@@GAndreC See the context in the video. He says "these muslim countries ensured Al Qaeda were provided alms and support". Maybe you need watch the video carefully. India is neither a supporter of terrorists and neither are we a muslim country. And even if the context was that indians came and joined al qaeda that's irrelevant because so did the Saudis but I don't see their flag there.
Al Qeada aren't Salafis, they are Khawrijs, Shiekh Bin Baz, Grand Mufti Of Suadia Arabia, described them as the Dogs of Hell.
4:15 wtf , what's india doin' there , we don't even have Islamist regime . Though individual muslim in India are fundamentalist too. But please atleast don't put us up with pakistan , atleast our national policy is not terrorism and not even our export to the world 😂😂
Seriously why is India there? Quite disappointed to see my country in the same league as the other nations featured on the same page
Yeah so what is meant there is individuals from India not the country itself but having listened back it does sound like I'm suggesting the Indian government is funding Al-Qaeda which isn't the case!
@desneribe can't disagree
Feels WEIRD not to mention the Operation Cyclone/CIA's involvement in the Afghan-Soviet War🤔
"I'm a creepa, playn like grim rippa,
blowing up block like al-qaeda'
US: Funds Al-Qaeda
US: Gets attacked by Al-Qaeda
US dont funds al Qaeda but funds mujahidin who is have many faction one of the faction is al qaeda
@@blackshirtsocialist1457 true
Love your videos but cmon man 3:45 9/11 killed around 3000 people not 2000
AND NOT PLANNED BY AL QAEDA
who is the current leader of Al-Qaeda ?
Just wondering ?
It was announced that Saif al Adel is the current emir of Al Qaeda after Zawahiri was killed in 2022 in Afghanistan. Adel is said to have been hiding in Iran but this is unknown and allegedly
Very wrong information. Qutbism is muslim brotherhood. SaladiSm is from Mohammad bin abdulwahab, mainly from Bin Tamiyah
I ran into some of them in Iraq for sure.
9. 11 zinste be hand
U started off wrong alqaeda does not mean foundation
4:57 India isn't a Muslim country
Islamic jihad in khasmir
Why are so many wars fought because of people disagreeing whose imaginary friend is better?
@@Derzto some people are too ignorant of external causes of warfare and simply decide to sum complicated stuff like this, apparently.
India never supported al qaeda. It supported Northern alliance.
He probably meant some particular people from these countries supported al qaeda, not the state
@@jpmiguieles if you listen he says "...many Muslim countries still backed them..". 04:15 you can listen back.
Well he clearly choose the wrong word because India is not a muslim country lol
@@jpmiguieles exactly my point. His videos are well researched. I respect his hardwork. But a proofreading or a spell check mistake I understand but this is misinformation level stuff.
@@jpmiguieles The Indian Government unlike the Pakistani and Bangladeshi government doesn't allow it's citizens to openly support UN designated Terror Groups especially Islamist ones.
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