I have to disagree with you. You might go back and do your homework and find out that AQ was created between Aug. 1988 and late ‘89.
The origins of al-Qaeda as a network inspiring terrorism around the world and training operatives can be traced to the Soviet war in Afghanistan (December 1979 – February 1989). The United States viewed the conflict in Afghanistan, with the Afghan Marxists and allied Soviet troops on one side and the native Afghan mujahideen on the other, as a blatant case of Soviet expansionism and aggression. The U.S. channelled funds through Pakistan’s ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) agency to the native Afghan mujahideen fighting the Soviet occupation in a CIA program called Operation Cyclone.
Well, according to the BBC, and About.com we’re both wrong.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1670089.stm on Al Qaeda
http://middleeast.about.com/od/afghanistan/ss/me080914a_2.htm on Taliban
and speaking of accuracy, in my post that should have been 1990, not 1991.