only a loose recruiting and training structure a democracy and contagion of anti- islamic to bearcaties the 9/11 attack seems irrational. a blind lashing out against western culture. they were not. they reflected a calculated strategy that has yielded the result the planners hoped for. the story quickly claimed responsibility for the attacks. they do not hate us for who we are as much as for where we were. the group had its roots in 1989 mostly young arab militants who flocked to afghanistan to join the holy war against the soviets. al qaeda initially aligned with the u.s. receive training. but once the soviets were driven out, osama bin laden and the arab who became the leader turned his attention to the superpower that still retained a dominant position in the muslim world. their aim was and remains to drive us in our profit-making and or religious colonizers from the middle east a slow death by thousand. al qaeda is a war of attrition in which they would provoke action that would attract more followers to their cause slowly bleeding us of our treasure, our lives and our result. wh