‘Blowback’ : “In light of evidence from the recently completed US embassy bombing trials, (the authors) examine the genesis, operational methods and organisational structure of the Bin Laden network: Al-Qaeda.” A July 2001 analysis from Jane’s Defence Weekly. (As the estimable Fred Lapides points out, the term ‘blowback’ refers to a situation in which what you’ve set in motion blows up in your face. Bin Laden cut his eye teeth with the Afghani resistance to the Soviet invasion, which the U.S. trained and funded, of course.)