Really? I haven't heard this one... but am not quite surprised.
Training (read "indoctrinating") camps for youth... well, the idea and the practice are way older then Bin Laden's Afghan bases. There were plenty of them in the Nazi Germany and the Soviet Russia.
Bin Laden, Arafat and Zarqawi had training in Moscow. I don't know who else.
You are right and that was my point which I didn't make very clear.
Someone posted (suggested as a thought) that Soros was following the Al Qaeda model. My point was, it was the other way around.