According to reports al qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden, a saudi Arabian in 1988 in Pakistan to fight in the Afghan soviet war. Al qaeda were reportedly implicated in two bombings occurring simultaneously in u.s. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. The attacks were said to be carried out by egyptian Islamic jihad, founded in the late seventies, according to the u.n. the jihad organisation was affiliated to al qaeda. Bin Laden became wanted by the fbi.
Reportedly the 9/11 attacks on the world trade centre and the pentagon in 2001 were carried out by nineteen hijackers, fifteen were from saudi Arabia, two from the united Arab emirates and one from Egypt. According to the report four teams consisted of a trained pilot and three or four men whose job it was to overcome the passengers and crew.
The hijackers were said to have mainly arrived in the usa from January 2000 and three were said to have undergone flight training in Florida. The fourth pilot reportedly arrived from Saudi Arabia in 1991. He was said to have studied english for a few months at the university of Arizona before going home. According to the report he returned in 1996, studied english in the university of California and took flight lessons in Arizona, receiving his commercial pilot’s licence in 1999. Reportedly he went back to Saudi Arabia to try to find a job as a pilot. He was said to have been turned down at the civil aviation school in Jeddah.
Of the nineteen hijackers four were reportedly known by the CIA. According to a report two of the hijackers fought for muslims in the Bosnian war. They and others were said to have been chosen by Osama bin Laden to take part in a mission to pilot commercial airliners into the world trade centre buildings, the pentagon and the Whitehouse, but the fourth plane reportedly crashed.
One of the hijackers was reportedly photographed at an al qaeda summit in Kuala Lumpur with another who was believed to have been involved in the bombing of the u.s. navy ship uss Cole in October 2000. Reportedly al qaeda had training camps in Afghanistan and elsewhere. According to the February 2020 US peace agreement the Taliban will not allow any of its members, other individuals or groups including al qaeda to use Afghanistan to threaten the security of the U.S.