Factoid of the day take two

from an article on Strategypage discussing the power struggle in Iran:

Iran wanted bin Laden dead, because al Qaeda was violently anti-Shia and had slaughtered over 100,000 Shia in the last two decades. In that period, most of al Qaeda's victims had been Moslems, most of them Shia.

but the bad news is that Syria and Iran and maybe Egypt might plan a war against Israel this summer to distract their people from pointing fingers at their corrupt governments or in Egypt as a way for the extremists to take over the gov't....