I think it's telling how Q exposed AJ before the big Iran drop. AJ would have been all over that and would have loved to take credit so that he could sell you more bullshit broth.
9/11 had many outcomes, but one was that the FBI started to look less at drug gangs and more at terrorism, even though terrorism is virtually non existent by comparison.
This was by design. This allowed these gangs to grow. Why? Gangs are literally the easiest to blackmail since they're already dirty as fuck.
Why else do you think Q puts ISIS and MS13 in the same posts so often?