Posted on 04/28/2007 6:24:59 PM PDT by blam
Iranian tip-off may have led Americans to al-Qaeda leader
A major in Saddam's army, believed to have masterminded the London bombings, could have been betrayed in Tehran, reports Jason Burke
Sunday April 29, 2007
The Observer (UK)
British diplomats are checking secret reports that elements within Iran, normally hostile to the West, helped the American secret services to capture Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, the Kurdish-born senior al-Qaeda militant who was revealed last week to have been arrested on the border between Iran and Iraq late last year.
Abdul Hadi, 45, a former Iraqi army officer who speaks five languages and is a key link between the al-Qaeda leadership in western Pakistan and militants in Iraq, had 'met with al-Qaeda leaders in Iran' and had urged them to support efforts in Iraq and to cause 'problems within Iran', US military sources told The Observer
Elements within the complex matrix of interest groups that make up the Iranian regime, who have co-operated with Western intelligence services before when it has served their purposes, provided crucial elements of information, possibly through intermediaries, allowing Abdul Hadi to be captured. 'They may have felt he posed an equal threat to them,' said one Paris-based Middle Eastern diplomat yesterday. 'One of Tehran's biggest fears is of an alliance between Kurdish ethnic separatists in the northwest and al-Qaeda.'
Any such help would have been highly secret, given the tense relations between the Iranian regime and Western nations which came to a head with last month's detention of British naval personnel, allegations that Tehran is supporting Shia militants in Iraq and fierce recriminations over Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear technology.
However, senior US intelligence officials told The Observer that the Iranian government has 'in some cases' been helpful in tracking and 'disabling' key militants crossing
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Kurdish born? You mean, not even Arabian?
Without evaluating whether this might be true or not...
it sure is funny the Guardian is attempting to portray the Iranians as our friends, while totally ignoring the real “cookie”, which is the fact that Al-Hadi was a major of Saddams army.
There were/are a few Kurds who are Sunni Extremist and there also were a couple of Kurdish Baathists in Saddams regime. Traitors who ended up killing their Kurdish “brethren”.
Since there never was any relationship between anyone under Sadaam and any who had ever even heard of Al Qaida, this story does not compute. Unless the Ministry of Trust can reconcile this matter, ....Down the Memory Hole with it!!!!!
Ministry of Trust being very much the same as the Ministry of TRUTH, of course.
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