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Originally posted by reaxi0n
Ahhh so the boogeyman comes out from under the bed once again.
Originally posted by MrSpad
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
...They skirt along that point on the theory the worst they will have to suffer is a few airstrikes. So far they have been proven right.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by PaxVeritas
Shh..
Dude, we are supposed to just buy whatever the headline is. Stop informing people please.
Sunni and Shia Muslims get along famously.
When al-Qaeda decided to formally extend its terror franchise to Somalia’s main militant group last week, few were impressed by the pairing.
“Nervous al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab get hitched,” read an Asia Times headline. “A desperate joining of hands to prop up” the weakening groups, wrote the Associated Press. “Terror wings clipped,” proclaimed AllAfrica.com.
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri last week gave “glad tidings” about the pairing. On Monday, the now-infamous al-Shabaab Twitter account tweeted its first mentions of its new partner. In several tweeted photos, al-Shabaab mujahideen are shown pledging their allegiance to the “unity under ... one leadership,” as “thousands” of Somalis look on and “rejoice”:
Originally posted by cerebralassassins
P.S. Let me know if i missed any m.e. nation hostile to Is interests here. .
The key point in the video is that Zawahiri accuses Iran and the US of being partners in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Zawahiri also blasts Iraqi Shi'ites for not launching a jihad in Iraq against the "Crusader occupier". In his recent messages this is a recurrent theme: the "Persians" are the enemy of the Arabs and they're part of the occupation of Iraq.
It is impossible to have any Al Qaeda in Iran as all Iran is nearly 100% Shiah after the 1979 Shiah revolution. The Sunnis call it 'a Shiah revolution inspired from France', not an Islamic revolution as the Shias themselves call it.
Iran is an isolated country with its own agenda of cheating into muslim world dominance. They openly state that both the Kaaba (Mecca) and Al Quds (Jerusalem) are "occupied by disbelievers and should be liberated."
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Ummm...... Everyone is aware that Al Qaeda is primarily Sunni and Wahabbi, to be specific...while Iran is Shia. I know..minor difference to our minds here..but I've had it explained more than once and not terribly kindly once, that to those folks it's a difference that CAN mean life or death depending on circumstances.
Iran has plenty to dislike and look to do something about....but I shake my head at the piling on. Now it's Al Qaeda for a reason despite the fact Iran almost invaded Afghanistan themselves in 2001 over the Taliban abusing and harming their diplomats in Kabul.
I don't know.. maybe they are working together now. I just about give up on trying to understand the Onion of layers to the hate in that region. So many different forms, and they may or may not have anything to do with any other reason to kill each other. It's a crazy place.
Originally posted by reaxi0n
Ahhh so the boogeyman comes out from under the bed once again.