In all these years, I never went down that rabbit hole. What is supposed to be the role of Al Qeada in this scenario?
The terrorist groups of the Middle East are either radicals or well meaning revolutionaries, who mostly just get used by governments and then disposed of.
If you're hearing good things about one of these groups and they're being painted as freedom fighters, it's because they're doing dirty work for a government and being propped up by them.
Once they start being called terrorist organizations is generally when the government that was propping them up doesn't have a use for them anymore, or they're more trouble than they're worth, so they cut ties. Once this happens, they use the media to demonize these groups and paint them as terrorists, despite the fact that these governments are the ones who funded them in the first place.
This is very useful for governments like Russia, Israel, and the US, who crave war in these territories, but have a hard time brainwashing their own people to fight in them. By constantly funding, freedom fighter groups in radical groups, using them for military insurgency, then labeling them as terrorists afterwards, these rich nations have had a constant supply of mercenaries that they can get rid of whenever they wish to continue their illegal fraudulent wars.
Some of the leadership end higher-ups are
From nepotism and governments, like with Osama, but even then, that obviously doesn't stop them from also getting targeted eventually. Once again, like with Osama.
A lot of these leaders get what Blue Jam got in one piece: they get promised the keys to the kingdom, only to get locked outside once the war starts.
Nearly every muslim terrorist organization that achieved global prominence got their initial funding from Britain, USA, Israel, or Russia. Mostly the US and Israel.
Once these terrorist cells realize that they've been played, they obviously declare whoever betrayed them as their enemy, but their ability to fight back against geopolitical superpowers is very limited. Unfortunately, since the education family structure and overall societal structure is such a mess over there due to constant religious and political conflicts, the young men don't get taught why it's wrong to join these cells, because that's all they're surrounded by.
The youth had been robbed of the true history by these old ghouls and gremlins.
What many don't realize is most people in these terrorist cells do hate our governments, but really don't want anything to do with citizens of these countries and realize we're just brainwashed fools in a lot of cases.
Israel and the USA are different stories because large parts of the population of those countries are so wildly hateful towards Arabic populations, that a lot of them view us as demons for making this much money destroying their lives and murdering their kids.
To those victims of Western imperialism, the people in the West that celebrate the destruction of Arab society are the Satan