The LRA caused more terror then Al- Qaeda

"I only have time for one argument this round, and its a rebuttal to every single point Con made last round. " "He seems to be of some illusion that Al-Qaeda is responcible (sic) for every single death that happened in Afghanistan and Iraq. " Indirectly they are, because their 9/11 attack set off a chain reaction that caused the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "R1: Al-Qaeda had no connection with Saddam Hussien (sic), and him suggesting that we got into a war with him over Al-Qaeda ia (sic) absolute nonsense. It just is. " Aside from the fact that we don't know whether Hussein ever had dealings with Al-Qaeda, the fact is that the chain reaction set off by 9/11 (an attack perpetrated by Al-Qaeda) caused our war in Iraq. "R2: Same thing with Afghanistan. Almost all the fighting was done with Taliban forces, and even though they started a chain reaction, they are not nessecarily (sic) 100% responcible (sic) for our involvment (sic), or does it make them as terrible in the slightest. " Actually, the Taliban had dealings with Al-Qaeda. "In 1996, bin Laden moved to Afghanistan from Sudan. He came without invitation, and sometimes irritated Mullah Omar with his declaration of war and fatwas against citizens of third-party countries,[254] but relations between the two groups improved over time, to the point that Mullah Omar rebuffed his group's patron Saudi Arabia, insulting Saudi minister Prince Turki while reneging on an earlier promise to turn bin Laden over to the Saudis. [255] Bin Laden was able to forge an alliance between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The Al-Qaeda-trained 055 Brigade integrated with the Taliban army between 1997 and 2001. Several hundred Arab Afghan fighters sent by bin Laden assisted the Taliban in the Mazar-e-Sharif slaughter. [256] The so-called Brigade 055 was also responsible for massacres against civilians in other parts of Afghanistan. [23] From 1996 to 2001 the organization of Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri had become a virtual state within the Taliban state. Taliban-Al-Qaeda connections were also strengthened by the reported marriage of one of bin Laden's sons to Omar's daughter. While in Afghanistan, bin Laden may have helped finance the Taliban. [257][258] After the 1998 U. S. embassy bombings in Africa, bin Laden and several Al-Qaeda members were indicted in U. S. criminal court. [259] The Taliban rejected extradition requests by the U. S. , variously claiming that bin Laden had "gone missing",[260] or that Washington "cannot provide any evidence or any proof" that bin Laden is involved in terrorist activities and that "without any evidence, bin Laden is a man without sin. .. he is a free man. "[261][262] Evidence against bin Laden included courtroom testimony and satellite phone records. [263][264] Bin Laden in turn, praised the Taliban as the "only Islamic government" in existence, and lauded Mullah Omar for his destruction of idols such as the Buddhas of Bamyan. [265] At the end of 2008, the Taliban was in talks to sever all ties with Al-Qaeda. [266] In 2011, Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn at New York University's Center on International Cooperation claimed that the two groups did not get along at times before the September 11 attacks, and they have continued to fight since on account of their differences. " . http://en.wikipedia.org... "So, since I find my opponents arguments incredibly weak, I will extend mine. "