[ScaniaBoy]

Do you remember the “lively” discussions a couple of decades ago that Iran could never have assisted Al Qaeda because the terrorists were Sunni and Iran is Shia?

Usually the truth comes out, eventually.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Iran was known to “house” Al Qaeda operatives and possibly assisted in their training and weapons supplies.

I wish I had the article in front of me that I read years ago, possibly about 2014 or 2016, maybe even earlier. If I find it, I’ll post it.

[piasa]

Democrats really don’t want to talk about that, nor the connections of John Kerry to Krasniqi of the Albanian KLA group which is affiliated with Iran and alQaeda, even when the Democrats took on the KLA as our “ally.”

[attiladhun2]

That was a State Dept notion called “the Concept,’ that Shia and Sunni so hated the other they would never cooperate. That notion has been disproven as much as another stupid Foggy Bottom idea, that if you have 3 cups of tea with an Afghan, you had a friend for life.

[Svartalfiar]

Do you remember the “lively” discussions a couple of decades ago that Iran could never have assisted Al Qaeda because the terrorists were Sunni and Iran is Shia?

Usually the truth comes out, eventually.

That's the thing though: while Shi'ites and Sunnis do hate each other, they'll work together to fight non-Muslims. And if there's just one of those sects, they'll be infighting amongst them. It's just how Islam is.