Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Politicians - Representative Silvestre Reyes
About the incoming Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee...
And there's a little more...
Jeff Stein writes at CQ.com:
"The dialogue went like this:
Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?
“Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”
“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.
“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.
He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an al Qaeda club house, they’d slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.
That’s because the extremist Sunnis who make up a l Qaeda consider all Shiites to be heretics."
And there's a little more...
from Reuters at Yahoo.com:
