Thanks for your link from the past. It led me to several interesting articles.
“Former CIA Director George Tenet claims that the CIA learned in mid-2002 “that portions of Al-Qaeda’s leadership had relocated to Iran. This became much more problematic, leading to overtures to Iran and eventually face-to-face discussions with Iranian officials in December 2002 and early 2003. Ultimately, the Al-Qaeda leaders in Iran were placed under some kind of house arrest, although the Iranians refused to deport them to their countries of origin.” Many of them were not arrested, but put in special safehouses run by the elitist Iranian Revolutionary Guards.”
http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=vermaatalqaeda321201.htm
JUNE 27, 2002 : (IRANIAN UN WORKERS EXPELLED BY US AFTER BEING CAUGHT CASING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, BROOKLYN BRIDGE , SUBWAY TUNNELS-— SEE CAMERA INCIDENTS) -————— “Pre-emptive Expulsion - Two Iranian U.N. Workers Expelled From the United States,” by John McWethy, ABCNews.com , 6/27/02 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/707456/posts
Check it out, the article’s been deleted.