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Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter

Al Qaeda means list or database in Englisch.

No, it means "The Base".

Originally Posted by Wiki

The name comes from the Arabic noun qā'idah, which means foundation or basis, and can also refer to a military base. The initial al- is the Arabic definite article the, hence the base.

Originally Posted by OBL

The name 'al-Qaeda' was established a long time ago by mere chance. The late Abu Ebeida El-Banashiri established the training camps for our mujahedeen against Russia's terrorism. We used to call the training camp al-Qaeda. The name stayed.

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The other Al Qaeda - our Al Qaeda - is an US controlled pretense. Our Al Qaida is an impressive staging, sending video messages when needed, willing assignable cause to any terror attack or plan. A veil for our agitating, civil ground crews operating in the Arabic - or other - countries, to breed bad blood, initiate some uprises and provide terror. Any force we deploy to destabilize a government or society can act as our Al Qaida. It has no members but the ones we assign to it. It is a not catchable phantom, a huntable shadow, an everlasting enemy.

It's what the US military branch urgently needed to keep the tax money flow running. The Soviet bogeyman disappeared without warning and no new, constant tax money provider was in sight. Osama's small Al Qaeda was no ample reason for running a multi billion Dollar military. They had to create an own, reliable and controllable bogeyman, showing up and frightening the s... out of the people whenever needed, but not able to disappear at his own will. Obama's Al Qaeda was a perfect fundament to build on and it is a perfect disguise and feint. As a welcome side effect, it was a justification for the growing surveillance and censor efforts.

Any evidence?