A meeting between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyed_Imam_Al-Sharif" id="mwARY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif">Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden" id="mwARc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Osama bin Laden">Osama bin Laden</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Yusuf_Azzam" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Abdullah Yusuf Azzam">Abdullah Yusuf Azzam</a>, and leaders of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Islamic_Jihad" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Egyptian Islamic Jihad">Egyptian Islamic Jihad</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> culminates in the formation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Al-Qaeda">Al-Qaeda</a>.<sup about="#mwt60" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_11#cite_note-10" id="mwARw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAR0">[10]</span></a></sup>
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