Thursday, January 19, 2006

OSAMA BIN LADEN AND IRAN

If Osama bin Laden is still alive, could he be hiding in Iran? From Peter Bergen's article, The Long Hunt for Osama.

Iran is another area of concern. Since early last year a number of important al-Qaeda operatives have shown up in Iran, a country that, according to one U.S. intelligence official, some in al-Qaeda envisaged as "an administrative hub" for the group. U.S. officials told me that Saif al-Adel, the No. 3 man in al-Qaeda's hierarchy; Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the group's spokesman; Muhammad al-Masri, an important al-Qaeda trainer; and Abu al-Khayr, one of al-Zawahiri's deputies, have all been apprehended by the Iranian authorities. What the Iranians plan to do with their prisoners is something of a mystery. "We wish we could predict how this is going to turn out," one U.S. official says. (TheAtlantic.com, October 2004.)


Read Thomas Holsinger's post, The Case for Invading Iran. [Via InstaPundit.]

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