Dune: IIRC, Saddam and his Bath party are Sunni
They are sunni ethnically, but are really secular socialists - at least untill the Gulf War in 1991. When "Allah is great" was added to their flag. Stalin too made a great show of bringing up the Russian Orthodox Patriarch in hard days of 1941. Did not last long, that religious "tolerance"...
Iran are considered Shia.
89% shia according to CIA.
The Iraqi's that Saddam persecuted in southern Iraq are also Shia. Osama bin Ladin is Shia.
While the Afghanistan - and the Taliban regime that held on to power largely due to Al-Qaeda help - is sunni. In fact, shia were cruelly oppressed as "heretics" under Taliban, which is why Iranians hated that regime.
Such a lovely snake pit we've entered.
P.S. Wait - OBL is a wahhabi. That makes him sunni, not shia. Whatever.
miko