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| Kuwaiti Newspaper Pinpoints Osama-Zawahiri In Isolated Iranian Town | |
| 2010-06-08 | |
He is said to have lived there under Tehran's protection for the last five years, along with Ayman Al-Zawahiri and five other high-ranking al Qaeda leaders. Intelligence sources disclosed Monday night that Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan and his intelligence chiefs are well aware that Bin Laden and Zawahiri are hiding in Iran. The leak to the Kuwait paper was intended to show the Obama administration that the Turkish leader's ties with Iran had grown intense enough for him to be fully in the picture of Iran's secret sanctuary for the authors of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Savzevar (alt. Sabzevar), a small town of about a quarter of a million inhabitants, is connected by road to Tehran and Mashhad and has a small airport. A center for producing grapes and raisins, its location is remote and difficult to access because it is enclosed by lofty mountains and a salt desert 50,000 square kilometers in area. On May 13, American intelligence sources reported in detail that senior al Qaeda operatives living in Iran had been allowed to leave the country through Syria to orchestrate terrorist attacks on American targets. Among them was Saif al-Adel, who is believed to have been assigned with planning an attack on the world soccer games opening in South Africa on June 12. Those sources noted that Saif al-Adel had received his instructions directly from Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri but did not reveal knowledge of their presence in Iran. Sabzevar, Iran, is quite visible on Google maps. | |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #9 ION WAFF > GUARDIAN.UK > [Erdogan] TURKEY IS CALLING FOR JIHAD AGZ ISRAEL, as strongly inferred by PAST TURKISH HISTOIRE + ONGOING FLAG(S)-WAVING POPULAR PROTESTS AGZ ISRAEL after Israel's attack on the Gaza Aid flotilla??? * SAME >[Strongest yet] NEW UN SANCTIONS AGZ IRAN EXPECTED WITHIN 24 HOURS. Lest we fergit, IRAN > IMPOSITION OF NEW HARSH SANCTIONS AGZ IRAN + NUCPROGS IS AKIN/TANTAMOUNT TO A [US-Israeli]DECLARATION OF WAR AGZ IRAN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-08 20:50 |
| #8 Good test range for the Rod of Thor. |
| Posted by: KBK 2010-06-08 20:26 |
| #7 The quetion is not if he is living in Iran, but where in Iran is he living. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2010-06-08 18:21 |
| #6 Would not surprise me if Short Round is using AlQ as a bargaining tool. Also Short round has a new Islamist ally in Erdogan! |
| Posted by: Paul D 2010-06-08 16:45 |
| #5 Now you got to go an insult pu$$ies... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-06-08 15:35 |
| #4 #3 Looks like the diameter of the town is about 3 miles. Too bad this pu$$y of so-called president dosn't have the balls to do it. |
| Posted by: armyguy 2010-06-08 15:08 |
| #3 Looks like the diameter of the town is about 3 miles. An inventory size nuke ought to pretty much take care of the perps there. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-06-08 14:32 |
| #2 Not always. They put out three types of stories. The first are generic press releases from someone else. These tend to be reliable. The second are likely official leaks from Israeli government agencies. These are so-so. The third group are opinion pieces and wishful thinking, which are terribly unreliable. In this case, the cite a Kuwaiti newspaper. Unfortunately it is in Arabic. But it is likely that their translation is accurate, even if the source is questionable. They also quote US intel sources that are verifiable. So on a scale of 1 to 10, I would give this a five or six. The information, if true, is possible, not farcical. It is based in the present, not speculating about the future. Third, it is the sort of thing Israeli intelligence would want to leak to the Internet. So, again, all told, the article cred is about a 5 or 6. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-08 14:22 |
| #1 "via Debka" Which means it has about a 0% probability of being true. |
| Posted by: crosspatch 2010-06-08 13:39 |