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Gulf Al-Qaida chief: Shi'ites, like Iran, more dangerous than Jews
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims 

The leader of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Penninsula warned Tuesday that Shi'ite Muslims, particularly Iran, posed more danger to the world than either Jews or Christians.

"They [Shiites] are being driven by a greed to take over Muslim countries and they are full of a wish to annihilate Sunnis," Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al-Rashid said in an audio recording carried by the U.S. monitoring group SITE Intelligence.

"Their threat to Islam and its people is much bigger than that from Jews and Christians," he added. The majority of the world's Muslims are Sunni, but Iran and the Lebanon-based group Hezbollah are both Shi'ite.
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"We call on the nation ... to stand by [Sunnis] with whatever means they can against the danger of Iran and those who follow [the Shiite] faith in the region," added Rashid. He also accused Shi'ites branch of helping to facilitate the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

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