Posted on 08/02/2006 1:12:30 PM PDT by ikez78
BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border. It linked the reported move to the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanese-based Hizbollah.
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With the aim of sending him to the syrian lebanon border?
Riggght..
Can you imagine if Israel catches him? or he goes into Iraq??????
More on Iran Al Qaeda connection….
Hmmmm.
Hopefully if he did that..he'd be toast.
I'm sure they never had to "free" him - more like "launch" him into Syria and Lebanon...... Iran's relationship with Al Qaeda has included harboring many of the scumbags safely within its guest houses.
probably a coward like his brother, hiding in caves but calling on OTHERS to "martyr" themselves so he doesn't have to.
Looks to me like President Bush really has the Iranians squirming.
ping
The Iranians chose to do this I believe. Things aren't goign good for them if they are playing this hand already.
I read the other day that one of OBL's sons distanced himself from his father after 9/11 and publicly disagreed with the actions of the jihadists on 9/11 and said something about "do you know what you've brought down on our heads".
I wonder if this is the same son or a different one.
RFID chip installed :)
BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border. It linked the reported move to the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanese-based Hizbollah.
"From the Lebanese border, he has the task of building Islamist terror cells and preparing them to fight together with Hizbollah," Die Welt said, quoting intelligence information.
"Apparently Tehran is counting on recruiting Lebanese refugees in Syria for the fight against Israel, using bin Laden's help," it added in a preview of a report to appear in its Thursday edition.
Western intelligence sources have long suspected that Iran is holding a number of al Qaeda figures, possibly including Saad bin Laden and Saif al-Adel, the network's security chief.
Kamal Kharrazi, then Iran's foreign minister, said in January 2004 that Tehran had jailed about a dozen al Qaeda suspects and would put them on trial.
"Our general view is Iran certainly does have a few al Qaeda-related figures ... The general perception is Iran keeps these people as a bargaining chip," said a European counter-terrorism official when asked about the Die Welt report.
He said Shia Muslim Iran was not sympathetic to members of Sunni-dominated al Qaeda but "they protect them as long as they think they can make use of them".
Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri issued a video message last week in which, while not mentioning Hizbollah by name, he urged Muslims everywhere to "fight and become martyrs" in response to the conflict in Lebanon.
Israel accuses Iran of providing Hizbollah with missiles to use against civilian and military targets. Tehran, which armed and funded Hizbollah in the 1980s, insists it now provides only moral support to the group.
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Thanks for the ping.
What hand? What is this Iranian move supposed to mean?
Thanks for the ping, ikez. I hope Israel finds him and kills him.
Has anyone got an audio of this puppy's voice? I've suspected that the audios we've heard lately were actually a son of UBL.
But, but they are different kinds of muslims! They can't be in cahoots! (sarc)
Yep!
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