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| Suspected al-Qaida camp seen in Iran |
| 2002-09-25 |
| U.S. intelligence has detected a suspected al-Qaida training camp in a remote area of eastern Iran along the border with Afghanistan, sources told NBC News. Overhead imagery shows what appears to be a training camp complete with a terrorist obstacle course and a rifle range, much like those al-Qaida used in Afghanistan to train for assassinations. Just like on the videos... It has been reported previously that a number of al-Qaida leaders had fled to eastern Iran, but this would be the first evidence that al-Qaida was actually using Iran to resume terrorist training. Sources told NBC News that while Iran’s civilian government may not know the training camp is there, Iran’s military and intelligence certainly would. There was no word Wednesday on possible U.S. efforts to deal with the suspected al-Qaida camp. If it's in fact an al-Qaeda camp, and doesn't belong to Pasdaran or some minigroup, it'll likely be undisturbed as a result of the split between the official government and the actual government in Iran. I imagine this will be left on a back burner until the Iraqis are social democrats... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |