Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei whitianga - Ko Osama bin Laden, i tohutohuhia e te kaiarahi Islamic Jihad o Ihipa a Ayman al-Zawahiri, i te tau 1988 i whakatu i a Al-Qaeda (Arabic: القاعدة, te tikanga "Te Putanga"), he nekehanga jihad Islamic hei whakakapi i nga whenua Mahometa e whakahaerehia ana e te Hauauru, e whakahaerehia ana ranei e nga kawanatanga Islamic. Hei whai i taua whāinga, i whakaputahia e bin Laden he pukapuka i te tau 1996 e oati ana ki te jihad tutu ki nga ope hoia o Amerika i Saudi Arabia. I te 7 o Akuhata 1998, i whakaekehia e ngā tāngata e pā ana ki a Al Qaeda me Egyptian Islamic Jihad i te wā kotahi e rua nga whare karere o Amerika i Awherika
i hua ai te mate ki te 224. I te Oketopa 12, 2000, i whakaekehia e Al-Qaeda te USS Cole whakaeke, he whakaeke whakamomori i te kaipuke whakangaromanga a te US Navy USS "Cole" i te tauranga Yemeni o Aden. I mate nga kaipuke o Amerika tekau ma whitu i te whakaeke.