Sorry, you have expanded beyond their original self-professed origins to include the propaganda you so eagerly devour.

Al-Quaeda was formed to protect muslim countries from "outside invaders". There were some members who also thought that Al-Quaeda should try to overthrow non-islamist governments in muslim countries. There was no original intent to attack the US or the west in the US or the west.

The US only became a target when thousands of US service people were stationed, during Desert Storm, at an airbase that Bin Laden thought was too close to Mecca. At the time, Bin Laden wanted to use Al-Quaeda as the base (literal tranlsation BTW) of an all-muslim force to drive Hussein from Kuwait.

So, the history of Al-Quaeda does not support your propaganda version. They were enemies of Hussein. They were not enemies of the US until we stationed infidel soldiers too close to their holiest site. The soldiers are now gone. That base is now closed. We got rid of Hussein for them. We conveniently ship infidels to Iraq for Al-Quaeda live-target training. They have been given everything they want.

Shall we "Stay The Course"?