Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Blowback, kana kuti migumisiro isingadiwi yokutsigira mari vaMujahedin, yakanzi yakauya kuUnited States mukuputika kweWorld Trade Center muna 1993 nokurwiswa kwaSeptember 11. Mukubhomba kwa1993, vose vaibatanidzwa mukubhomba "kana kuti vakanga vashumira muAfghanistan kana kuti vakanga vakabatanidzwa nesangano reBrooklyn-based fund-raising for the Afghan jihad" iro gare gare "rakaratidzwa kuva de facto dzimbahwe reU.S. reAl-Qaeda". Vatungamiriri mukurwiswa kwa2001 - Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed - vose vakanga varwa muAfghanistan, uye bin Laden akanga ari mutevedzeri waAbdullah Azzam. Boka rake, Al-Qaeda, rakadzokera kuAfghanistan kunopotera navaTaliban pashure pokudzingwa muSudan. Pamberi pokurwiswa kwaSeptember 11, Al-Qaeda yakanga yarwisa mabhishopu maviri eU.S.
muAfrica muna 1998, uye akapotsa anyudza USS "Cole" muYemen muna 2000. Zvisinei, hapana rubatsiro rwakananga rweU.S. kuna Bin Laden kana kuti kumamwe masangano ake rwakambosimbiswa.