Yes, Sunnis and Shi’ites hate each other, but they have no problem uniting against Infidels.
“Terror Threat: Al Qaeda’s Next Leader Has Deep Ties to Iran,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, August 4, 2022:
The man likely to become al Qaeda’s next leader has spent decades using Iran as a base of operations and maintains deep ties to the hardline regime, signaling that two of the globe’s leading terrorist forces could exponentially expand relations in the near future.
Saif al-Adel, al Qaeda’s number two leader and longtime head of its security arm, fled to Iran in the early 2000s, along with other senior leaders, following the September 11 attacks. From there, he helped relay orders from the just-killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri and orchestrate terrorist operations that killed dozens of people, including Americans, according to former U.S. officials and information on the Iran-al Qaeda axis published by a watchdog group.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) protected al-Adel during his time in the country, and the regime permitted him to plan deadly terror attacks, including a May 2003 operation in Saudi Arabia that killed eight Americans. “Adel’s suspected presence in Iran has raised further questions regarding Iranian influence on al Qaeda if Adel were to be named leader,” according to United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), an advocacy group that closely tracks Iran’s regional terror operations.
These ties have only deepened since President Joe Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan that left the Taliban in power and the country in shambles. Senior leaders in Iran’s Quds Force, an elite IRGC branch, remain in close contact with al Qaeda leaders, “and since the fall of Afghanistan, have provided some al Qaeda leaders with travel documents and safe haven,” according to a European intelligence analysis. The Iran-al Qaeda alliance, former U.S. officials told the Free Beacon, has quietly grown for many years, making the prospect of a new nuclear deal with Iran—which will provide Tehran with billions in cash—beneficial for its allies in al Qaeda.
“When the U.S. government enriches Iranian terrorists through sanctions relief or a lack of enforcement, that money ultimately goes back to support al Qaeda,” Gabriel Noronha, a senior Iran adviser for the State Department during the Trump administration, told the Free Beacon. “We know that Saif al-Adel has not just been living in Iran for most of the past 20 years—he’s been hosted there by the regime along with other al Qaeda operatives. Since 2015, the Iranian regime has allowed al Qaeda to establish an operational headquarters in the country, providing them with documents, passports, funding, and logistical support like safe houses.”…
Infidel says
Okay, so he would be a lot safer than previous al Qaeda leaders who hid in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Unless of course, the Israelis take him out
mortimer says
Reports say that AL QAEDA trained for 9/11 in IRAN.
The mullahs are pro-Al-Qaeda!
The Pak Army intelligence nurtured and managed Al Qaeda and that is why they were HIDING Osama bin Laden only 100 yards from the FRONT GATE of the Pak Army Military College at Abbottobad !
The Pak military could not have been surprised or even truly dismayed that the US special forces attacked bin Laden’s safe house, thus executing him.
Osama bin Laden was no doubt a nuisance and an embarrassment to the Pak military.
The Shi’ite mullahs don’t really like the Sunnite Al Qaeda, but they keep this strategic alliance in case it becomes useful to attack Americans or Israel.
Al Qaeda feels safer among Sunnite Talibans than among the Shi’ites.
The US should also target AFGHAN military and political targets if the Taliban CONTINUES to harbor these terrorists. Pres. Trump would CERTAINLY do that.
But not weak, bumbling, stumbling, senile, 97-lb Joe the Beijing Bribed-man.
Infidel says
This story was started by Mansoor Ijaz, a Paki-American Republican, to deflect attention away from Pakistan’s role in this. Quite a brazen attempt, really, given that the bulk of the 9/11 plotters who were captured were captured in Pakistan and that too in major Paki cities like Karachi, Faisalabad, Multan, Mardan and so on. Not to mention Osama himself in the cantonment city of Islamabad
somehistory says
And why not? all of them belong to the largest terror group…the cult of subjugation and death.
Every mozlum terrorist, every terrorist wannabe, every mozlum who cheers the terror and celebrates the terror, trains the kids in terror, moms and dads who send their little ones to be trained for terror, every one of them who lies about the terror, each one who whines and accuses to deny the terror…it’s one huge terror organization and collectively, eventually, they are all in it together to bring down the rest of humanity.
Keith O says
Why are these animals referred to as “top dog”?
That is an insult to our best friends.