What is International Terrorism??

I was reading through a few articles and then just out of curiosity I dig in Google to find a few interesting pieces of articles, links etc. I am sharing those below. These are random but still connected to the topic. There is no conclusion by me. It is for the reader to draw it out for themselves. Internet is full of articles, links etc which could justify either side of the story.

"In a column for the Guardian four weeks before his death, Cook caused a stir when he described Al-Qaeda as a product of a western intelligence:
Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by Western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians."

- source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Cook#Outside_the_government 


The Power of Nightmares - a BBC documentary
2 people mentioned in the above documentary:
Leo_Strauss - Wikipedia
Sayyid_Qutb - Wikipedia

PS: I will update this article if I will find anything else interesting on this topic.