There are all kinds of "fundamentalists" - and by and large they hate and despise other sorts of fundamentalists. Al Qaida and the Iranian mullahs are examples of that. Their understanding of what an Islamic society should be like are vastly different and incompatible with each other.

That doesn't mean that the Iranian regime hasn't got some terrible thomhs wrong with it. But for Al Qaida it is the last place for it to look for recruits - unlike Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.

True enough "politics makes strange bedfellows". There are some very strange people indeed who have bankrolled Bush.