Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: May 29, 2005 - June 04, 2005 Archives: "Much of what we call al Qaida -- not just al Qaida proper which is at least a somewhat specific entity or association of radical Islamist groups, but the broader movement of violent and extremist jihadism across much of the globe -- was the spawn of the cockpit of brutality and extremism that was the Afghan jihad of the 1980s."