The main Saudi and Qatari desire is that Syria shift from being an Iranian-Shiite-dominated country to a Sunni-dominated one.
The Sunni-dominated insurgents have long targeted the Shia-dominated Iraqi police and recruits in hopes of fuelling sectarian conflict in Iraq.
Nowadays, he said, prison officials single out the people from Anbar and Mosul — meaning Sunnis — and mistreat them, a reversal of the circumstances under the Sunni-dominated government.
The biggest chunk is the Sunni-dominated heartland.
He reneged on a promise to meaningfully include the Sunni-dominated Iraqiya list in government.
It appears on Baghdad TV, a channel owned by the Sunni-dominated Iraqi Islamic Party.
The Shiite majority suffered grievously under the Sunni-dominated regime of Saddam Hussein.
A Sunni-dominated group, it treated the Shiites harshly, and was an increasingly unwelcomed presence.
But Jaber al-Jabri, a member of the Sunni-dominated Iraqiya bloc, objected to that assessment.
Neither Saudi Arabia nor any of the Sunni-dominated gulf states have publicly endorsed Western intervention.
It is also fiercely resisted by Iraq's Sunni-dominated Arab neighbors.
