Several years ago, a BBC journalist created a documentary titled "Al Qaeda Does Not Exist." There are other videos with a similar name, but this is the BBC one.
BBC aired it in the UK, but then quickly backed away from it and scrubbed it from the internet. But from time to time, someone posts a clip of it. It is currently online.
Watch it while you can. It explains how the US government created the idea of Al Qaeda.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbzedd
Besides this video, I also remember reading about Robin Cook. He was a UK intel guy who said that "Al Qaeda" was not an organization of people, but rather was a term used to describe a computer database.
"Al Qaeda" in Arabic means "the Base." This was slang used to refer to a computer database in Saudi Arabia. At the time, it was a very sophisticated computer, and was used to keep the names and contact info of black op assets (mercenaries, black market weapons dealers, drug dealers, etc.).
It was never an organized terrorist group.
Robin Cook was the Minister for Defence and told the House of Commons that Al Queda did not exist, it was an invention of the US and British Security services.
A few days after this he was walking on the Yorkshire Moors and killed himself, just like that.
https://files.catbox.moe/xxo8re.jpg
Yep. Forgot about that.
Quite the Qoincidence, huh?
Says everything.