we didn't really create them what we did do was take some radicals, arm them better, and train them alot better. was it wrong you betcha it was. and since we never seem to learn from past mistakes once again our gov is arming the same kind of radicals we are fighting/going to have to fight. syria rebels, lybia rebels, egypt, and ........ it will come back to haunt us.

Actually, here is the rest of the story!

Al Qaeda Never Existed

An excerpt from the documentary, "The Power of Nightmares" Robin Cook, a former British MP and Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote that Al-Qaeda, “literally ‘the database’, was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.” Thus, “Al-Qaeda” was born as an instrument of western intelligence agencies. The creation of Al-Qaeda was facilitated by the CIA and allied intelligence networks, the purpose of which was to maintain this “database” of Mujahideen to be used as intelligence assets to achieve US foreign policy objectives, throughout both the Cold War.

http://tv.globalresearch.ca/2010/12/al-q...