Assertion: bin laden | /r/CapableOf | found al-qaeda
Facets:
value: in 1988
type: TEMPORAL
value: to unite arabs
type: PURPOSE
value: in the late 1980s
type: TEMPORAL
value: before the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In 1988 bin Laden founded al-Qaeda to unite Arabs who fought against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.
text: In 1988 he and the Egyptians founded Al Qaeda, ("The Base"), a network initially designed to build fighting power for the Afghan resistance.
text: In 1988 bin Laden founded al-Qaeda to unite Arabs who fought against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.
text: Al-Qaeda: In 1988, one year before the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, bin Laden founded al-Qaeda.
text: In the late 1980s, bin Laden founded al Qaeda, Arabic for "the base," an organization that CNN terrorism analyst and author Peter Bergen says had fairly prosaic beginnings.