davidbfpo
10-27-2010, 10:09 PM
Hat tip to Circling the Lion's Den for picking up this German news story:
Interesting article in Spiegel Online that says former al-Qaeda military chief Saif al-Adel, who has spent the last nine years under house arrest in Iran, is now in Waziristan. The article claims that al-Adel, who is Egyptian, was freed by the Iranians in exchange for unnamed Iranian prisoners kidnapped by al-Qaeda.
Link:http://circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com/2010/10/al-qaeda-former-military-chief-in.html and the German report:http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,725181,00.html
The later is written by a journalist who I respect, although the basis of the report is a well-known defector from LIFG (Libyan AQ aligned group) and his still current networking.
This sentence is enough:
With his help, the weakened terror network could reorganize itself.
I do recall reading years ago that Iran had detained a number of AQ suspects, al-Adel was allegedly released earlier in 2010 - in a swop for Iranian prisoners. One wonders how he feels about the Iranian regime.
Makes the current increase in drone attacks more interesting.
Interesting article in Spiegel Online that says former al-Qaeda military chief Saif al-Adel, who has spent the last nine years under house arrest in Iran, is now in Waziristan. The article claims that al-Adel, who is Egyptian, was freed by the Iranians in exchange for unnamed Iranian prisoners kidnapped by al-Qaeda.
Link:http://circlingthelionsden.blogspot.com/2010/10/al-qaeda-former-military-chief-in.html and the German report:http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,725181,00.html
The later is written by a journalist who I respect, although the basis of the report is a well-known defector from LIFG (Libyan AQ aligned group) and his still current networking.
This sentence is enough:
With his help, the weakened terror network could reorganize itself.
I do recall reading years ago that Iran had detained a number of AQ suspects, al-Adel was allegedly released earlier in 2010 - in a swop for Iranian prisoners. One wonders how he feels about the Iranian regime.
Makes the current increase in drone attacks more interesting.