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.
It says in the article you cited that the AQ was formed in 1989 not 1990 or 1991.
“Al-Qaeda, meaning “the base”, was created in 1989 as Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan and Osama Bin Laden and his colleagues began looking for new jihads.”
Who organized the madrassas during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan to indoctrinate the jihadi youth to fight against the Soviets? The CIA.
What does ‘talib’ mean? Student. What are madrassas full of? Students of the jihad.
The madrassas indoctrinate the yoots for global jihad and then AQ hires them to do the deed.