'Iran-Al Qaeda Alliance' is Neocon Hype

"Bin Laden did not like or trust Iran, that al-Qaeda members who fled to Iran were surprised when they were rounded up and arrested by Iranian authorities, that they were dismayed when Iran started sending them back to their home countries, and that they felt that Iran often lied to them. They called Shiites 'rawafid,' a nasty epithet used by Sunnis who don’t like Shiites very much."