Osama Bin Laden: Building Al-Qaida. In 1988, bin Laden created a new group,  called al-Qaida (“the base”) that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism instead  of military campaigns. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, bin  Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to step up fundraising for this new and more ...
Al-Qaeda (/ælˈkaɪdə/ or /ˌælkɑːˈiːdə/; Arabic: القاعدة   al-qāʿidah, Arabic: [ ælqɑːʕɪdɐ], translation: "The Base", "The Foundation" or "The Fundament"  and alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qæda and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a  militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin  Laden, ...
The group was founded by Usama Bin Laden and Muhammad Atef, a/k/a "Abu  Hafs al Masry," together with "Abu Ubaidah al Banshiri," and others. ... In  particular, al Qaeda opposed the continued presence of American military forces  in Saudi Arabia (and elsewhere on the Saudi Arabian peninsula) following the  Gulf War.
Oct 14, 2016 ... At the time, the US government was not admitting that Saudi Arabia and its Sunni  allies were supporting Isis and al-Qaeda-type movements. But in the leaked  memo, which says that it draws on “western intelligence, US intelligence and  sources in the region” there is no ambivalence about who is backing ...
Feb 3, 2017 ... "[The US special forces] entered another house and killed everybody in it,  including all the women. They burned the house. There is an assumption there  was a woman [in the house] from Saudi Arabia who was with al-Qaeda. All we  know is that she was a children's teacher." Images circulated on social ...
We know that Saudi Arabia started al-Qaida.