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The purpose of the present research is to examine the role and influence of modern method of blended learning in the formation and development of professional competencies on the example of the faculty members of Al Ain University from the viewpoint of its students and determine the relevance of the educational method of blended learning in modern society and science according to world situation.

The study sample consisted of 980 male and female students in the second semester of 2019–2020. The comparative analysis of the influence of blended learning on the knowledge level and improvement of professional competencies among students of two faculties was taken into account.

The results of the survey according to chosen criteria showed that the professional competencies required for the faculty members were moderate. According to the results of the survey, most of respondents (75%) are sure that the level of blended learning at their educational institution is high. 35% of respondents think that blended learning helps to develop technological competency as well as self-development (25%), motivation (18%), critical thinking (12%), self-discipline and time management (10%).

The relevance of problematic issue of blended learning is determined by the new conditions of educational process connected with pandemic. The prospects for further research can be based on the results of this study especially the relevance is connected with the study of the experience of using modern method of blended learning in different foreign countries on the basis of surveys and developed programs.

Al-Qaeda is conventionally portrayed as a monolithic, hierarchical organization whose activities – coordinated by the network's leader Osama bin Laden – are the source of international terrorism today. Al-Qaeda is considered a radical tendency within the broader Islamist Salafi movement, legitimizing its terrorist operations as a global Islamist jihad against Western civilization. Al-Qaeda's terrorist activity today is considered, “blowback” from long finished CIA and western covert operations in Afghanistan.

The conventional wisdom is demonstrably false. After the Cold War, Western connections with al-Qaeda proliferated around the world, challenging mainstream conceptions of al-Qaeda's identity. Western covert operations and military – intelligence connections in strategic regions show that “al-Qaeda” is a network whose raison d’etre and modus operandi are inextricably embedded in a disturbing conglomerate of international Western diplomatic, financial, military and intelligence policies today. US, British, and Western power routinely manipulates al-Qaeda through a complex network of state-regional and human nodes. Such manipulation extended directly to the 9-11 hijackers, and thus to the events of 9-11 itself.11This paper advances an original argument based partially on research in Ahmed (2005), supplemented here with significant new data and analysis. Also see Ahmed (2002).