How did Al Qaeda start?

How did Al Qaeda start?

Erroll Southers (Former Deputy Director of the California Department of Homeland Security) gives expert video advice on: What is Al Qaeda and why is it so successful?; How did Al Qaeda start?; Where does Al Qaeda get its money? and more...

Briefly they started around 1988; they were all part of the Mujahadeen when they were taking on the Russians in Afghanistan. I like to speak that Bin Laden was the financier, Ayman al-Zawahiri who is a doctor and MD was the brains they came together as two separate groups formed as one, agreed that they had a common enemy and moved forward.