Everyone knows the US and Saudi Arabia heavily supported fundamentalists in Afghanistan in the 80's. And? How many suicide bombings were there in Afghanistan then? Did anyone blow up bazaars or hospitals?
When jihadists "justify" killing what do they cite? They cite Koranic verses and hadith as well as the examples of the Islamic/Arab empire's imperialism and the Ottoman empire. This has nothing to do with the US. This is an intra-Islamic debate. If you listen to some Muslims you would think terrorism come out of the blue after the 80's. Was it the US which divided the world between Dar-al-Islam ("House of Peace") and Dar-al-Harb ("House of War"--all "kafir" lands which had to be fought until they eventually fell under shariah)? That happened 1,000+ years ago. There is dispute after these designations today--there was none when the Arab and Turkish armies were marching triumphantly from battle after battle, nation after nation--but again that is an internal dispute. The jihadists believe the "House of War" extends to all "kafir" lands and they believe any land without shariah is "kafir", hence the extension jihadism to Muslim countries.
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The Taliban itself was a creation of the CIA having been set up and bankrolled by the U.S. in tandem with Pakistan’s ISI.
“In the 1980s, the CIA provided some $5 billion in military aid for Islamic fundamentalist rebels fighting the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, but scaled down operations after Moscow pulled out in 1989. However, Selig Harrison of the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars recently told a conference in London that the CIA created the Taliban “monster” by providing some $3 billion for the ultra-fundamentalist militia in their 1994-6 drive to power,” reported the Times of India.
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This has already been debunked. Harrison never said that.