In his defence, he says that Al Qaeda are "Predominantly – probably" Shia.
Now either I know more than a senior leader in the US intelligence community, or there’s something about Al Qaeda that we have been terribly misled about…
Is there a way we can provide him with critical information to assist in the war on terror by revealing the bombshell that Al Qaeda affiliates entirely with Sunni Islam?
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, who incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped to head the Intelligence Committee when the Democrats take over in January, failed a quiz of basic questions about al Qaeda and Hezbollah, two of the key terrorist organizations the intelligence community has focused on since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
When asked by CQ National Security Editor Jeff Stein whether al Qaeda is one or the other of the two major branches of Islam – Sunni or Shiite – Reyes answered “they are probably both,” then ventured “Predominantly – probably Shiite.”
That is wrong. Al Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden as a Sunni organization and views Shiites as heretics.
Reyes could also not answer questions put by Stein about Hezbollah, a Shiite group on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations that is based in Southern Lebanon.
The people you see on TV (Bush and this Reyes) are fake-Texans.