A top al-Qaeda terrorist said Tuesday that the Shi'ites, especially those in Iran, are more dangerous to the world than the Jews or the Christians.

"They [the Shiites] are being driven by a greed to take over Muslim countries and they are full of a wish to annihilate Sunnis," said Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al-Rashid, the head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula. "Their threat to Islam and its people is much bigger than that from Jews and Christians."