BY the way, they don&#x27;t talk about it now, but originally in 2001 the media reported that &quot;al queda&quot; was a code name used by the CIA for their database of mujahideen fighters. Somehow the narrative later morphed into &quot;al queda&quot; being a massive global conspiracy of &quot;cells&quot; with a leader, and all that, a big old boogeyman.  But they forgot that for this to be the case, we have to believe that Osama Bin Laden -- Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible One style-- stealth his way into CIA headquarters and found this top secret code name they used for the Mujahideen fighters they were funding in the 1980s, and decided to name his secret, global, hidden, evil genius organization after it.<p>It&#x27;s kinda nonsensical.  But fortunately for the government, most people don&#x27;t pay much attention.<p>At any rate, the propaganda&#x2F;misinformation efforts are very real and ongoing.