Osama bin Laden and top aides are hiding in Sabzevar, Iran

DEBKAfile ^ | June 8, 2010

[Errant]

Osama bin Laden's hiding place for the last five years was pinned down Monday, June 7 by Middle East sources as the mountainous town of Savzevar in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan. He is said to enjoy Iran's sanctuary along with Ayman Al-Zawahiri and five other high-ranking al Qaeda leaders...

[Errant]

I know, it's DEBKAfile. I still trust them more than CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Washington Post, LA Times, NY Times or Huff & Puff...

[outofstyle]

I know, it's DEBKAfile. I still trust them more than CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Washington Post, LA Times, NY Times or Huff & Puff

Agreed! But wait for the trash to fly.

[abigkahuna]

Well I suggest a flight of b-52s to take a look-see of the terrain.....

[libh8er]

Wasn’t he sighted in Salt Lake City during the 2002 winter olympics ? I am pretty sure I read it in the news.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

I know, it's DEBKAfile. I still trust them more than CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Washington Post, LA Times, NY Times or Huff & Puff...

LOL ... there are those here on Free Republic who would rather vote for Obama than listen to Debka ... :-)

That's just plain irrational ...

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Osama bin Laden and top aides are hiding in Sabzevar, Iran

June 8, 2010, 12:16 AM (GMT+02:00)

Osama bin Laden's hiding place was pinned down for the first time Monday, June 7, by the Kuwaiti Al-Siyassa Monday, June 7, as the mountainous town of Savzevar in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, 220 km west of Mashhad. 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.

DEBKAfile's 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, 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.

DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources disclose that the purpose of airing their precise whereabouts at this time, aside from implicating the Turkish leader, was first, to warn al Qaeda's leaders that their hideout was blown and they had better move on - which would make them easier to catch; and, second, to nudge US president Barak Obama into a decision to go after them. 

A rare opportunity may now be building up to capture the world's most wanted terrorist, DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report. Last December, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged the United States has not had any good intelligence on bin Laden's whereabouts in years. Until recently, the elusive master-terrorist was generally thought to have gone to ground in the wilder parts of Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.

[bigbob]

Cruise missile time!

[JRios1968]

[FormerACLUmember]

DEBKAfile picks some random hellhole Iranian city and claims Obama is there.

[Tolsti2]

Those guys are living it large since 9/11 in some islamic country. No doubt at all.

[exit82]

The bombing begins in five minutes.

BTW, if Bin Laden is hiding out with Al Zawalhiri, Binny is the Muslim version of Weekend at Bernie’s.

They must wheel him to face Mecca five times daily.

But he ain’t praying.

[exit82]

DEBKAfile picks some random hellhole Iranian city and claims Obama is there

Osama,Obama, both work for me ;)

[FormerACLUmember]

I wish Obama was in the Iranian toilet of a town, not Osama.

[gaijin]

[Errant]

Agreed! But wait for the trash to fly.

[outofstyle]

LOL! But can it really fly?

[exit82]

I wish Obama was in the Iranian toilet of a town, not Osama

Amen. Then he could nightly hear the so called sweetest sound on earth--a fellow follower of the pedophile Mohammed screeching his lings out on top of a tower at sunset.

[The Comedian]

Just in time to distract America from the fact that Obama is personally responsible for killing the Atlantic ocean, the American economy, the space program, success in 2 wars, and oh yeah, Israel.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I felt safer after 9/11 than I do now. How pathetic is that?

[Imperialist]

I keep up on Debka and trust them more then the (Lame)MSM, and Debka once thought OBL went to Yemen. I still think if he survived Tora Bora, what unfolds below is plausible, maybe still there in Yemen (couldn't find original Debka File with same details, but found at Cryptome, same details). I don't buy he is in Iran, seems more like a baiting situation, wouldn't it be convenient for OBL to be in Iran... I don't trust the Turks one bit: http://cryptome.org/obl-yemen.htm 28 December 2001. Thanks to WM. December 27th BIN LADEN REPORTEDLY ESCAPES TO EASTERN YEMEN Wayne Madsen According to informed Afghan, Iranian, and U.S. government sources, Osama bin Laden managed to escape to the eastern Hadhramaut region of Yemen around the time of the first major snowfalls in Afghanistan in mid-November. Bin Laden, the world's most wanted man, apparently managed to slip out of Afghanistan through the porous border with Pakistan. With the help of local loyal Pashtun tribesmen and allies within the Pakistani Inter Service Intelligence agency, Bin Laden is said to have boarded a boat in the vicinity of Gwader, Pakistan and made his way to Yemen, possibly via Oman where the Wahhabi sect commands a majority of Islamic adherents and Bin Laden enjoys some support. The U.S. Navy claims its ships in the Arabian Sea have been conducting thorough searches of vessels in the hunt for Bin Laden. Gwader, a former possession of the Sultanate of Oman, is a traditional seaport linking Pakistan with the Arabian peninsula. The dhow traffic is so heavy, one observer opined that it would be nearly impossible for US Navy ships in the area to search each and every sailboat, especially if they travel at night without navigational lights. If the reports on Bin Laden's whereabouts are true, he now resides in an area that is his birthplace and the ancestral home of his family. Some of the eastern Yemeni tribesmen are fiercely loyal to Bin Laden and the area is not easily penetrated by Yemeni security forces. Although a recent videotape of Bin Laden shown on Al Jazeera TV purportedly placed him in a cave fortress in Afghanistan around December 9, there is no confirmation that Bin Laden actually taped the video from Afghanistan. Recently, CIA, U.S. Special Forces, and Marine Corps units, along with Yemeni security patrols, have been involved in sorties resulting in occasional firefights with tribesmen in Yemen's remote mountainous provinces, an indication that U.S. and Yemeni intelligence believe that the armed tribal units in Yemen might now include Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda associates. GWADER: BIN LADEN'S EXIT PORT Gwader remained an Omani possession as part of the sultanate until September 1958. Gwader today belongs to the jurisdiction of the Government of Baluchistan - Home and Tribal Affairs Department - within the Makran Division. A number of Baluchis support Bin Laden. The African Muslim element is still very evident in this ex-Omani enclave and there are ties between the more militant of them and Bin Laden allies along the Kenyan, Somali, and Tanzanian coasts. Within the old Arab-African bazaar, there are a number of Bin Laden loyalists who can make things happen quickly and discretely (like a boat trip to Arabia). Bin Laden's New Protectors If Bin Laden has escaped to the Hadhramaut of Yemen, he would be surrounded by Sayyid tribesmen who are allied with members of the Saudi elite. In what could be bad news for those trying to pry Bin Laden out of the area, the Sayyids of the Hadhramaut are said to be direct descendants of the Prophet Mohammed through a tribe led by Ahmed bin Isa al Muhajir, who arrived from Iraq around 951 AD. The people who would be protecting Bin Laden are semi-nomadic Sayyids who live among other mountain tribes between the Wadi Masila and the coast of the Arabian Sea. Bin Laden has publicly commented that the Hadhramaut is one area where he might want to seek sanctuary. Hadhramautis are believed to have been behind the attack on the USS Cole in Aden harbor in Oct. 2000. At the time, Yemeni Prime Minister Abdul-Karim al-Iryani reported that one of the men who steered the small boat of plastic explosives into the ship was born in the Hadramaut. The second man was also believed to be from Hadhramaut. The FBI's investigation of the Hadhramautis was shut down by the CIA Station in Sanaa when the investigation began linking the Hadhramautis and Bin Laden to members of the Saudi royal elite. The Saudis are major backers of the tribes of the Hadhramaut who have been waging an intermittent civil war with the Yemeni central government in Sanaa. The primary FBI agent in that investigation, John P. O'Neill, was called back to New York after pressure was exerted on US ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine to spike O'Neill's potentially embarrassing investigation. O'Neill was among those killed at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

[Imperialist]

oops, sorry for the lack of punctuation, bad copy/paste job!