[swarthyguy]

Heck, Osama hates the SaudiRoyals more than Saddam.

Secular? America helped with the jihadis to oust the Commies from Afghanistan.

Same jihadis except they hate us more than anyone else now, but we worked with them for a long time.

Politics (aka War) makes strange bedfellows (cliche alert!

[carton253]

Except for Bin Ladin and Saddam. Both have the same enemy. Both have the same goals. But somehow, these two can't lay aside their differences to defeat that enemy?

As the Arabs say, "me against my brother, my brother and me against my cousin, me, my brother, and cousin against the world."

Except for Bin Ladin and Saddam! No, no link there.

[El Gato]

Secular? America helped with the jihadis to oust the Commies from Afghanistan. Same jihadis except they hate us more than anyone else now, but we worked with them for a long time.

Some are the same, but many are not. The Taliban didn't become a signifigent factor in Afghanistan until the other anti Russian factions exhausted themselves fighting first the Russians and then each other. Then, like the Bolishiveks after the first Russian revolution, they strolled right in, having husbanded their forces to do just that, and with help from the non-Afghan "Arabs", brought to the country by the likes of Osama.