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PufPuf23

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10. Not sure if I understand your post.

Reply to pecosbob (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 4, 2019, 11:47 PM

Jan 2019

Ian is a Shia state. Assad is an Alawite which is a sect of Shia Islam.

The controlling Saud family in Saudi Arabia is Sunni (there is a Shia minority). Al Qaeda is Sunni.

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Not sure if I understand your post. PufPuf23 Jan 2019 #10

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