Posted on 08/02/2006 10:34:56 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
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."
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Or the CIA...
Here's hoping this Bin Laden boy is quickly pushing up daisies.
They need to turn Tehran into the Persian sea......
We should have taken care of this long ago. Iran has been harboring Al Queda since before we invaded Afghanistan. Some leaders were put under "House Arrest" years ago which we know doesn't mean anything. (Just like Palestinian House Arrest = free to go about your terrorist activities). Premption should have been concurrent with our invasion into Afghanistan (or Iraq at the latest).
Pre Emption NOW!!!!!
It would be nice if he becomes a marker to OBL.
oh yuck, even the smallest thought of Bin Laden procreating makes me sick in my stomach.....
He was probably living with his father in Tehran.
"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.
"a few" to can really mean a very large number
Whoa.
To His Excellency, Shaykh Bin Laden (aka "Junior")
We send good news and bad news!
The bad news is you must leave your well guarded but luxurious villa in an undisclosed Iranian location.
The good news is that our President had a vision where the the prophet PBUH has called you! You will be escorted by brave brothers of the revolutionary guard to hezbollah headquarters on the lebanon syria border to assume the role of leading the jihad. You will be fitted for shrapnel resistant turban before boarding a well-maintained Iranian Air Force flight for Syria.
May your stalwart leadership ensure swift victory over the zionists, mash'allah!
Maybe the IDF will capture him and ask "Where's yo Daddy?"
and this 'news' is meant to do what?
If that doesn't answer your question, then I don't follow you.
And this question is relative to Iran's purpose for releasing the news or the German's motive for digging out the news? If the former, another potential chess move by Iran to draw attention away from their nuclear aspirations long enough to finish and test a bomb. If the latter, see press, subparagraph money.
"and this 'news' is meant to do what?"
"this question is relative to Iran's purpose for releasing the news "
exactly
Gee, what a surprise.
Iran supports the Hezballians
Therefore they are responding as best they can by sending an Muslim RAMBO to the rescue
They didn't "free" Bin Ladin's son, they deployed him.
This may be some kind of psyops, or simply that the boy is begging to get into the fight. It definitely links Bin Ladin with Iran with Syria with Hezbollah, for anyone not paying attention. Israel's fight is our fight; we are fighting against precisely the same people.
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