Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Zvichida boka rejihadist reSalafist rakakurumbira uye rinobudirira raiva Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda yakatanga kubva kuMaktab al-Khidamat (MAK), kana kuti "Hofisi yeBasa", sangano revaMuslim rakagadzwa muna 1984 kuti riunganidze uye riise mari uye kuti riunganidze "mujahideen" vokune dzimwe nyika nokuda kwehondo yokurwisa maSoviet muAfghanistan. Yakagadzwa muPeshawar, Pakistan, naOsama bin Laden naAbdullah Yusuf Azzam. Sezvo zvakava pachena kuti jihad yakanga yamanikidza mauto eSoviet kusiya basa rawo muAfghanistan, vamwe "mujahideen" vakadaidzira kuti kuwedzerwa kwamabasa avo kubatanidze hondo dzechiIslam mudzimwe mativi enyika, uye Al Qaeda yakaumbwa nabin Laden pana August 11, 1988. Mitezo yaifanira kuita mhiko ("bayat") yokutevera vakuru vomunhu. Al-Qaeda yakasimbisa jihad mukurwisana ne"muvengi ari kure", nokudaro yaireva United States. Muna 1996, yakazivisa jihad yayo yokudzinga mauto okumwe nezvido zvawo zvavaiona senyika dzechiIslam, uye muna 1998, yakabudisa fatwa yaikumbira vaMuslim kuuraya vaAmerica navavakidzani vavo nguva ipi neipi uye kupi nokupi kwavaigona. Pakati pezviito zvaro zvoutsinye zvinonyanya kuzivikanwa paiva nokuputika kwebhomba kwamakambani eU.S. muna 1998
muDar es Salaam neNairobi uko kwakauraya vanhu vanopfuura 200; uye kurwisa kwaSeptember 11, 2001 uko kwakauraya vanhu vanenge 3000 uye kwakakonzera kukuvara kwemabhiriyoni akawanda emadhora.