Reply #103: I don't support "AQ" because I don't believe it exists

[Terran1212]

"Al-Qaeda" literally means in Arabic "the base." It never was an organization. The West just started to call the small group of people who had control of the military government in Afghanistan after the Soviet war "Al Qaeda."

There is no monolithic terrorist group launching attacks in every country across the globe. There is absolutely no proof of that. The only people saying this are the government officials who are providing no clear evidence of a connected terrorist organization. For all I know, these attacks are being done by a handful of desperate, unrelated, unconnected individuals. They might even be CIA/M16/Mossad. Who the **** knows?

What we DO know is what could be the most likely cause of these attacks, and we can have a serious argument about removing incentive or reasoning for the attacks.