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Not correct. If you look at it to recently, (2000) before the US invaded Iraq, there is no such a thing as a Sunni and Shiite.
Aftere the US left Iraq, all the boarders opened for every and anyone to go there and do just about any thing they wish.
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Or really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Iraq_War
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It followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority as well as Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state.
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This war and the debt the Iraq accumulated fighting it lead to the Kuwait invasion, which lead to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arabs requiring US assistance which pissed off Bin Ladin.... and the rest is history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shia–Sunni_relations
This has been going on for a very long time, it's only in the last 15 years that the West has given a crap because it's only in the last 15 years that is has mattered to us.
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Originally Posted by No 240.. No id
These fighters are supported morally and financially by Saudi, Qatar and Turkey.
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Yes, cause Iran isn't funding terrorism.
