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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

Spoiler for Ten Rings:

Accordion to the canon comic released before the Avengers film, the Ten Rings is not a traditional terrorist group. Instead, it is simply a free source of money and weapons for ANY terrorist group who wanted aid. Terrorism Charity, in other words. AIM is essentially the Ten Rings, while the actual Terrorists don't know who is sponsoring them.

The canon comic is very specific on this; the terror cells of the Ten Rings are entirely unrelated to one another. And that many of the groups are actually mortal enemies with each other. The only thing in common is that AIM is gifting them all with resources.

Ahh, so

Spoiler for Iron Man 3 plot thing:

since AIM are behind the Ten Rings, Killian really meant it when he said that he was the Mandarin.