A global militant

Islamist
organization
founded by
Osama bin
Laden
at some point
between August
1988and late
1989,with its
origins being
traceable to the
Soviet War in
Afghanistan
a criminal
syndicate that
emerged in
the mid-
nineteenth
century in
Sicily, Italy. It is
a loose
association
of criminal
groups that
share a
common
organizational
structure and
code of
conduct, and
whose common
enterprise
is protection
racketeering.
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Al-Qaeda Cosa Nostra
Drugs
Violent Crimes
Business Fronts
Other
**Other: Tax Evasion, Property Scams, Black market sales, extortion, blackmail, kidnapping