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Iran
Tehran deports Saudis
2003-08-25
Hat tip to LGF
Iran has extradited a number of Saudi members of Al Qaeda to Saudi Arabia, the official Iranian news agency Irna reported. Irna quoted Tehran’s ambassador to Riyadh as saying the Al Qaeda members had been arrested in Iran after the US-led war on Afghanistan, but did not name them, or say how many had been extradited or when they had been handed over to Saudi Arabia.
convenient, that absence of info - allows Soddy and the Blackhats to get their stories straight
The envoy, speaking to Irna on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran, said Iran and Saudi Arabia, leading oil producers and both Muslim nations, had signed a security pact and "have shown a firm resolve to improve ties in all areas", the BBC said.
another axis within an axis?
Last Sunday Irna quoted Hassan Rohani, secretary-general of the Supreme National Security Council, as saying that Iran had foiled a number of attacks Al Qaeda had been planning to carry out on its soil. "Their (Al Qaeda’s) plans for a wide range of terrorist acts inside Iran were neutralised by our intelligence organisations," Irna quoted Rohani as saying, though he gave no details.
"I can say no more!"
Although a staunch political enemy of Washington, Iran condemned the September 11 attacks on the US which were blamed on Al Qaeda and was fiercely opposed to the rule of Al Qaeda’s former sponsors, the Taliban, in neighbouring Afghanistan. Tehran has said previously that it has arrested a number of Al Qaeda members, including some senior figures in Osama bin Laden’s organisation. But it has declined to name them and has refused to hand them over to US officials for questioning. The Islamic Republic has also acknowledged that its extensive eastern border with Afghanistan is hard to police and some fleeing Al Qaeda members may have been able to slip into the country undetected. Intelligence sources and media reports suggest Iran may be holding Saad bin Laden, a son of the Al Qaeda leader, Al Qaeda’s security chief Egyptian Saif Al Adel and its Kuwaiti-born spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, among others.
wonder if they sent these asshats back or holding them as bargaining chips?
Posted by:Frank G

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