On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:40:31 -0500, Ignoramus7591 wrote:
On 2007-10-03, Dave Hinz wrote:

It's pretty obvious to people who look back further than this decade,
that those two sects have been killing each other for centuries before
the US existed.

I have not looked into this very deeply, but the stuff that I saw
indicated that Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq were not fighting each other
-- in major ways -- until later part of the 20th century. I will
appreciate some facts on this matter.

Dates back to 931 AD. I trust your google-fu is sufficient.