Flagg Miller on Bin Laden

I see my friend Flagg is doing a talk about al-Qaida in DC on September 13.

Al-Qaida can refer, of course, to bin Laden's worldwide terrorist organization, but so too can it simply mean a ‘base’ of operations, as was the case for a host of training camps from the 1980s-2000s in Afghanistan, Pakistan and beyond that had no significant connection to bin Laden or his ideology ... the primary enemy was not the American, Jew or Christian, but rather the errant Muslim within ...