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Or maybe

1. The Ten Rings terrorists in the Iron Man 3 Prelude were actually A.I.M agents in disguise.

or

2. They were local thugs who thought the were recruited by the Mandarin and the Ten Rings.

Example: Al-Qaeda and Ten Rings are similar in ways. Many insurgents fighting in wars in Mali, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan often carry the flag of Al-Qaeda or have the logo of the terrorist organization on their clothing even though they are not connected to the organization. Al-Qaeda is idolized as a resistance to a growing secular world order that opposess Democracy, it has many followers and people who carry out it's name even though they have no connection.

The Ten Rings could possibly be idolized in the same way that Al-Qaeda is. People carry it's name even though they have no connection to it.