I didn't even read the article or care for either side. I'm just commenting on your initial post about westerners not understanding Islam. Sometimes ideologies are irrelevant when you have a common enemy. Apparently it's seems less plausible to you guys that Iran and other Islamic adversaries would be supplying the insurgency rather than Russia and North Korea. Hell even China. In the same argument why are the Shias attacking Israel at all if they don't care about the Sunnis?