I'm sorry for derailing the conversation, but i find it very interesting how Al-Qaeda doesn't exist, yet its existence is always claimed by western sources.
Let me clarify. What we know as ''Al-Qaeda'', is a network of different militias, that the Americans have given this specific name. These militias are sometimes allied, and sometimes they fight between themselves, so they're not even united. The terrorists don't call themselves this name. Osama b. Laden himself stated that the name was a fiction. The name Al-Qaeda just means ''the base'' and it's after a base they used to train in.
In this article we have the example of Fazul Abdullah Muhammad as the ''leader of East African Al-Qaeda'', yet he was never a leader of anything. He was simply a prominent affiliated or allied with the remnants of ICU in Somalia, which later formed Alshabab.