Ten Rings (Killian's)

Aldrich Killian's Ten Rings is a division of AIM dedicated to impersonating the Ten Rings organization in order to increase demand in the United States for military technologies such as Extremis.

History
Initially a privately funded think tank, AIM didn't stay that way for long. After Maya Hansen gave him access to Extremis, Aldrich Killian perverted his own dream into a weapon by recruiting an army of crippled veterans who he promised to heal with Extremis. Once he realized how profitable these soldiers could be, he created a facsimile of the public image of the Ten Rings terrorist organization.

Aldrich Killian's Ten Rings was most active in the Americas and the Middle East, due to that being where Killian's target market would find it most visible. He hired an actor to make broadcasts claiming to be the leader of the Ten Rings, the Mandarin, in order to draw suspicion away from the explosions of failed Extremis projects, or throw a smokscreen around convenient deaths.

AIM detected a heat signature very similar to that made by Extremis, and investigated. They discovered a pyrokinetic called Avatar, and hoped that her blood might help improve the stability of the Extremis formula. They captured her, and found nothing special in her blood at all. Unknowingly, by capturing her they had antagonized the newly-formed Avengers team, which rapidly dismantled a majority of their operations.

See Also:
A.I.M., on Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki