I guess I’ve been saying and writing this for more than seven years, but it’s always nice to have support, especially when, as in this case, it comes from the general manager of al Arabiya TV, and a columnist in several publications in the Middle East. That is to say, not a neocon. Abdul Rahman al-Rashed states quite categorically:
…Iran, an extremist theocratic Shiite regime with Ahmadinejad at its helm, is orchestrating and funding the activities of extremist Sunnis in the region.
The paradox is most striking in the case of Al-Qaeda, the most extremist Sunni organization, which has joined, in the full sense of the word, the Iranian apparatus.
Read it all. He knows what he’s talking about. And if you have time, please tell George Tenet and his experts, who spat at the very idea that Sunnis could work with Shi’ites.