Definition of "Qaeda"

The tape of the Qaeda leader, creepily invoking polemical filmmaker Michael Moore, was played in the war room at Kerry headquarters in Washington.

2004, Evan Thomas, Eleanor Clift, Jonathan Darman, Kevin Peraino, Peter Goldman, Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future, PublicAffairs, page 177

Nineteen members of the Qaeda network seized control of four commercial airliners and used them as suicide missiles against selected targets.

2004, Stephen E. Atkins, “Al-Qaeda”, in Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, page 259

The killing of the top Qaeda leader offers lessons on 20 years of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

2022 August 1, David E. Sanger, The New York Times