From 1995 to 2003 Agents for Terrorist Organizations like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda roamed Tampa-Sarasota area
From 1995 to 2003 Agents for Terrorist Organizations like Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda roamed Tampa-Sarasota area. The Iranian regime is a state sponsor of terror, and al- Qaeda is a terror organization. But Tehran's ayatollahs are Shi'i Muslims and al-Qaeda are Sunni. There is some truth in the suggestion that Iran's connections to al-Qaeda are often largely overlooked. The Shi'i-Sunni sectarian split is seen as making any collaboration between the two a non-starter, but. However, there is evidence of engagement on some level. For example, Osama bin Laden met with Imad Mughniyah, a senior member of Hezbollah Iran, in the early 1990s. It is thought that al-Qaeda subsequently received explosives training from the Hezbollah group. Furthermore, Iran facilitated al-Qaeda members' travel in and out of Afghanistan prior to 9/11. Senior al-Qaeda leaders close to Osama bin Laden fled there after the in...