Originally Posted by jwoody

I'd agree with you on that MrS.D. There doesn't appear to be any minimum requirement to join Al-Qaeda other than saying that you're in and that you don't like America.

The reason behind this post is I was watching a part 3 of a BBC series on TV last night:



The main point that the producers were trying to put across is that Al-Qaeda's significance in the world was greatly exaggerated by the Neo-Conservatives in the American government, in the same way that Russian Communism never posed a real threat to the world.

They did show some interesting footage of Donald Rumsfeld describing (with a neat cut-away diagram) Osama Bin-Laden's multi-level mountain lair. The way it was presented was like something from a James Bond movie.



Rumsfeld's claim was that Bin-Laden had "not just one of these, but many... an unknown number... all over the Tora Bora region."