Companies/institution
Al-Qaeda
2017-05-23, 1 mention2017-07-18, 1 mention2018-01-15, 2 mentions2018-05-16, 1 mention2018-11-16, 1 mention2019-02-23, 3 mentions2019-04-07, 1 mention2020-03-29, 1 mention2020-04-19, 1 mention2020-11-15, 1 mention2021-07-04, 1 mention2023-09-30, 1 mention2023-10-14, 1 mention2023-11-04, 1 mention2024-05-25, 1 mention2025-01-04, 1 mention2025-03-29, 1 mention2025-07-22, 1 mention2025-11-22, 1 mention2026-03-07, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He mostly uses Al-Qaeda to argue that the terrorism narrative is manufactured for institutional convenience: the "stateless rag-tag militia" story sold for two decades turns out to describe a Saudi state operation 57:45, and the 2001 Dark Winter simulation pre-scripted the same Saddam-Al Qaeda link before it fell apart 1:29:03. By the 2021 domestic-extremism panic he calls Al Qaeda simply "old," a threat agencies keep alive to justify budgets 57:30.
The other recurring point is blowback — he cites the US funding Al Qaeda's Mujahideen against the Soviets as the template for Israel funding Hamas, a comparison he makes twice 2:58 20:44. He jokes that groups like it are functionally necessary since bombing them is the one thing government plainly does 11:07, while noting elsewhere the US was restricting domestic rights over it while allied with it abroad 1:07:32. A separate anecdote about a young heckler desensitized by Al Qaeda beheading videos stands apart, used just to mark generational numbness 55:05.
Every Reference (23)
"there was a summit in two thousand high al-qaeda leaders are high uh... very uh... influential people within al-qaeda the leadership actually was a quality poor in malaysia"
Fake Carrots: Blue Collar Jobs vs. the Gary V Dream, and 9/11 Questions to Gary Vee — Fuck Gary Vee+139s into the segment"he didn't do this, but How overblown was the post-9-11 fear of Al Qaeda in general? It was wildly overblown. You know, Senator Jean Shaheen"
Al Qaeda Was Overblown, and the CIA's Grip on Trump and Obama — Inside the Cia (with John Kiriakou)+41s into the segment"provided not a thing they provided actual financial support for al Qaeda terrorists that that I'm not an expert completely. Yeah, there's"
"literally about trying to draw lines between Saddam Hussein and these Al Qaeda terrorists, Shiite Al Qaeda. It was kind of like, and with a"
Conspiracy Theories, Tuskegee, and Bin Laden's Resentment — It's A Small World After All+91s into the segment"came out. A hundred percent. The ISI was working directly with Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. They were hiding him at certain points. If you"
"gun and start shooting through a crowd, which I was surprised Al-Qaeda and I just didn't do more. They didn't do that. It was really"
John Kiriakou, the CIA, and the Loose Origins of Al-Qaeda — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+99s into the segment"guy that I had captured that we thought was the number three in Al Qaeda at the time. So I said that was absolutely untrue, that I was"
John Kiriakou Interview: Prison Blog and the Setup Attempt — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+404s into the segment"going to give us all the intelligence that we needed to crack Al Qaeda. In fact there were two Abuzzabetas. There was another one named"
Post-9/11 CIA Culture and the Abu Zubaydah Torture Program — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+433s into the segment"budgets. They're quite good at it. So how Overblown look no one say al-qaeda wasn't real or didn't do this But how overblown was the post"
The Permanent War Economy and Overblown Al-Qaeda Threat — Our Best Episode (Inside the CIA with John Kiriakou)+10s into the segment"like everybody's gonna be like, all right, how do we deal with Al-Qaeda or whatever? You know, healthcare is probably a collective issue."
"this is America and that's how we roll and Al sama bin Laden will never take that away from us he'll never take away our ability to go"
9/11 Nostalgia, Consumerism as Patriotism, and Long Island Thievery — #193 - Fun Easter Foods | The Tim Dillon Show+140s into the segment"now you know we're allied the US government is like allied with al Qaeda in Syria and Yemen basically like fighting some there's a half"
Is Coronavirus a Bioweapon? Questioning the Narrative — #196 - Whitney Webb | The Tim Dillon Show+89s into the segment"the initial narrative of the bio terror attack itself which was that saddam hussein was working with al-qaeda to enact bio-terror uh a bioterror attack on the u.s"
Dark Winter and the 2001 Anthrax Attacks — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+264s into the segment"Putin doesn't scare Americans Isis is gone Al Qaeda is old they're all like old villains on their last legs you need new scary threats"
Oklahoma City Bombing and the Permanent Threat-Generation Machine — #259 - Independence Day with Glenn Greenwald | The Tim Dillon Show+31s into the segment"said like what does that mean to you and he goes I grew up with Al Qaeda beheading videos right this does nothing right it doesn't make"
Desensitization: Beheadings, Porn, and the Return of Shame — The Return Of Shame with Dan Soder | The Tim Dillon Show #363+29s into the segment"Organization. So Israel was kind of funding Hamas the way that we funded Al-Qaeda when it was the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan."
Explaining Hamas and the October 7th Attack — Degree Of Difficulty | The Tim Dillon Show #365+83s into the segment"way that we funded the Soviets against uh I'm sorry we funded Al-Qaeda against the Soviets is there any part of Israel thinking when"
Hamas's Charter, Iran's Role, and the Sacrifice of Gaza — A Case For Israel with Noa Tishby | The Tim Dillon Show #368+144s into the segment"a stateless uh Al Al-Qaeda the stateless uh militia essentially was roaming around the world trying to get nuclear weapons from everybody"
The Atlantic Admits Saudi Complicity in 9/11 — Kevin Spacey's Soup & AI Saints | The Tim Dillon Show #393+250s into the segment"send that money back to fund operations in Hezbollah and that Al-Qaeda has some sleeper cells as well though not as many as hezb um"
The Las Vegas Cybertruck Bombing: Matthew Livelsberger — Tesla Trucks, Taiwan & The Fog | The Tim Dillon Show #424+317s into the segment"part of the show and part of the fun you need groups like this Al-Qaeda um uh the the uh Isis you you need them you need these groups"
The Bombing Group Chat Is Just a Job — Leaked Group Chats & Door Dash Debt | The Tim Dillon Show #437+234s into the segment"I said I bet in 6 months they're trying to overthrow the new al-Qaeda leader. Well, Israel's now bombing trying to take him out, which"
Netanyahu's Endgame: Gaza's Gas Fields and Regional Pipeline Control — Emergency Podcast: The Epstein Cover-Up | The Tim Dillon Show #454+173s into the segment"out of here with this?" Everyone wants to know. Yeah, I was in al-Qaeda. So what? What's the big I was 19. So that's the president of"
Globalization, Thomas Friedman, and the Myth of the Flat World — The Epstein Files & Thanksgiving In Syria | The Tim Dillon Show #471+285s into the segment"and shredded 36 people in a strike that they said was aimed at Al-Qaeda, but they shredded a bunch of villagers in Yemen with them."
Munitions Running Low? Iran's Hypersonic Missile Gambit — Emergency Podcast: Iran, Israel, & Imminent Destruction | The Tim Dillon Show #486+289s into the segment