User blog comment:KennyChief/S.H.I.E.L.D. is a UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT organization, not International./@comment-2041242-20151017005431/@comment-6127681-20151018181905

The Taliban weren't responsible for 9/11, it was al Qaeda. The Taliban harbored them in Afghanistan. Plus let's say that bin Laden was Ten Rings in the MCU. We know he's a Muslim, and we know 9/11 still happened, for religious reasons. We know the Soviet Invasion of and War in Afghanistan happened, and that was fought for political-religious reasons between the communists and the Muslims. The Ten Rings appear to be a branch of the fringe Druze sect of Islam.

But we know that the Asgardians have special animals that couldn't have been brought back as pets. The horse Sleipnir, the Ravens Hugin and Munin, giant wolves, and Niddhogr, for example. And the quote "Magic... Science... I come from a place where they are one and the same" implies that the Asgardians use a mixture. If the Asgardians used strictly science, then that point Thor says is moot, because Earth too would be a place where magic and science are one and the same. the quote is "Your ancestors called it magic... And you call it science. Well, I come from a place where they are one and the same". Like, that entire thought line is irrelevant if there's nothing separating Earth and Asgardian methods of knowledge gathering.

And we know that S.H.I.E.L.D. is an American agency because in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, we see a document in Zola's archived footage that says all federal duties of the SSR will be transferred to S.H.I.E.L.D.