This Mujahideen crap started way before Iraq, Lebanon, the "Palestine question," or any of that. An Egyptian (name escapes me) who was attending college in Greely, CO in the mid-40s is the spiritual grandfather of modern jihadism. He came to view the United States and the West as decadent and racist (ignoring, of course, the massive bigotry of the Arab world). He founded an organization that influenced a fellow-countryman who,in turn, befriended none other than Osama bin Laden. Our foreign policy is only an excuse. The Jihadist program was well under way long before any of this became an issue.
Although I'm not familiar with the individual you spoke of, I have no doubt. Bush, Blair and the Jooosss are just todays excuse for the rag heads. Tomorrow it will be that the West is stealing the sun every evening. The islam of today desires the same thing as the islam of centuries ago, world domination. To believe otherwise is to commit suicide.