al-Qaeda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

al-Qaeda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), or the 'Services Office', a Muslim organization founded in 1980 to raise and channel funds and recruit foreign mujahideen for the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, was established by Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, a Palestinian Islamic scholar and member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Bin Laden in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1984."