Posted on 09/19/2015 8:57:39 AM PDT by Dave346
Some intelligence agencies warn the five men may travel to Syria and make use of its chaotic landscape to plot attacks elsewhere.
Iran has released five senior al Qaeda operatives from detention and will soon allow them to leave the country, prompting fears they will join other terrorists in Syria planning attacks on the West.
According to intelligence sources, three of the five are members of al Qaeda's ruling committee the Shura Council.
Among those released in exchange for the Iranian diplomat was Abu al Kheir al Masri - the former head of al Qaeda's "external relations" committee, who was once seen as a possible replacement for Osama bin Laden at the top of the organisation.
Alongside him was Saif al Adel - considered Number Three in the al Qaeda hierarchy, according to an intelligence report seen by Sky News.
The report said: "In the past, he headed up the organisation's military and security committees and served for years as its leading strategist.
"He took part in terror attacks against the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002, who was later killed by his captors."
It continued: "Al Adel began his career in the Egyptian military, before serving as an officer. He then turned to terror and played a role in the assassination of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981."
The third most senior member of al Qaeda, who was detained in Iran but recently released, is Abu Muhammad al Masri - a member of the movement’s military wing.
The report says he too was "involved in the terror attacks in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, as well as 9/11 and subsequent attacks against British and 'Zionist' targets".
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
The payoff from the submissive RINOs in the
“US” Congress and their Moslem Tyrant
has snagged more death in the pipeline.
No doubt they will issue Moslem-only passports
and leave the borders wide open, too.
Maybe they can immigrate to Germany to find jobs...or come to America as “dreamers”?
The question is: Is this in spite of the Iran deal or because of it? My $$ is on the latter. It’s just what Dr. Obama ordered.
Pong
Soooo....Iran lets out deranged terrorists but keeps 5 Americans locked up tight.
And our “President” is going to give them 160 billion of our money.
Tell me when I can wake up from this nightmare.
Add The title of Al Quedas Chief Negotiator to Obamas list of accomplishments..it’s surreal
Knowing Obama this was probably another side deal regarding their nuclear weapons program.
They were released in exchange for a Iranian diplomat. He was reportedly abducted in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, in 2013. (Other sources writes that is was 2015, not 2013)
Q: Who is the diplomat?
Speculations on what happened in a Stratfor article:
Whatever the details, this much is clear: A well-known militant with a $5 million bounty on his head flew from his safe haven in Iran to Lebanon, a country known for harboring wanted suspects, and to territory controlled by Iranian-backed Hezbollah. After landing in Beirut, he was whisked away to Riyadh. Something in the geopolitical relationship between Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia made this possible. And though we can not yet delineate the precise chronology of events or identify who is responsible for what, the strangeness of the events should give us pause and force us to reconsider what other previously held notions about the Middle East need re-evaluation or may be obsolete altogether.
https://www.stratfor.com/geopolitical-diary/did-iran-gift-saudis-terrorist-suspect
The Iranian claimed that a team of special operatives has freed an Nour Ahmad Nikbakht, but the Interior Ministry of Yemen denied that Iran had carried out a rescue operation, saying the diplomat was instead released in a prisoner swap “outside Yemen” in exchange for “terrorist elements” held by Iran.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/05/world/middleeast/ap-ml-iran-yemen.html
Well of course the regime has to make it look like a spectacular event saved him.
They have a habit of exaggeration.
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