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 | | In 1984, bin Laden and Azzam founded Makhtab al-Khidamat (MAK), the “Services Office,” which recruited, trained, and supported up to 10,000 Muslim fighters from dozens of countries for the jihad (holy war) against the Soviet Union occupation of Afghanistan. |
 | | In the late 1980s, as Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan, bin Laden moved to internationalize the war, founding al-Qaeda in 1988 as a means of spreading jihad to the countries from which the Mujahedin had been recruited. |
 | | The assassination of Azzam and two of his sons by a car bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1989 left bin Laden as a dominant figure in the radical Islamist movement. |
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