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| Iran arrests top Al Qaeda men |
| 2007-02-11 |
| Two Al Qaeda operatives arrested by Iran while they were on their way to Iraq began their journey from Pakistan. Nothing is known about the activities of these two men in Pakistan or how long they were there and who was sheltering them. According to a front-page report in the Washington Post on Saturday, last week the CIA sent an urgent report to President Bush’s National Security Council saying that Iranian authorities had arrested two Al Qaeda operatives travelling through. The suspects were caught along a well-worn route for militants, according to a senior intelligence official. “The arrests were presented to Bush’s senior policy advisers as evidence that Iran appears committed to stopping Al Qaeda’s foot traffic across its borders,” said the intelligence official. That assessment comes at a time when the Bush administration is preparing to publicly accuse Tehran of cooperating with and harbouring Al Qaeda suspects,” said the Post, adding that US officials had asserted for years that several dozen Al Qaeda fighters, including Osama Bin Laden’s son, slipped across the Afghan border into Iran after 9/11, and Tehran was holding them under house arrest as “bargaining chips” for potential deals with Washington. Some of the men being held by Iran are high-value fugitives. Osama Bin Laden’s son Saad is also being held with other prisoners in Iran. The report said that since Al Qaeda fighters began streaming into Iran, Tehran had turned over hundreds of people to US allies and provided US intelligence with the names, photographs and fingerprints of those it held in custody. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I guess they will get safe harbor I mean house arrest. Like much of AQ's current brain trust short the real big wigs Osama ect.. When Iran turns over those people I will consider Iran making a true effort of good faith. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2007-02-11 10:00 |
| #2 Definition of disinformation: Deliberately misleading information announced publicly or leaked by a government or especially by an intelligence agency in order to influence public opinion or the government in another nation |
| Posted by: SwissTex 2007-02-11 08:28 |
| #1 Was watching FOX's special on Radical Islam this AM - as said times before, iff Radical Islam is gonna be claiming that Jews-Zionists + Christians destroyed the WTC on 9-11, then by their own logic OSAMA and other Islamist personages claiming public credit for 9-11 and other attacks must be considered as traitors = fifth columnists AGAINST Radical Islam. Iff Jews + Christians destroyed the WTC. and Osama, etal. are taking credit for same, ergo Osama, etal. must be a Jew or Christian, NOT A MUSLIM OR RADICAL MUSLIM/ISLAMIST, correct??? Osama, etal. as a Jew-Christian ergo also CANNOT BE THE 12TH IMAM/MAHDI, CORRECT??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2007-02-11 00:49 |