Iran & AQ: a safe haven or holding cell?

[OUTLAW 09]

Admin after admin has never wanted to level with the public about AQ+Iran.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-ne...rticle/2006384

US ODNI has released another batch of UBL/AQ compound documents.....and it supports a number of articles written by Orten about the connections between AQ and Iran and even Russia.....

THAT apparently has been overlooked by Trump and his surrogates when stating "he is going to eradicate IS from the face of the earth"....does that mean along the way Iran and Russia who have been supporting both????

[davidbfpo]

A curious paragraph in The Soufan Group's commentary on the recent Executive Order on restricting immigration, with my emphasis:

However, Iran is materially different from the other countries named in the executive order. The restriction is primarily intended to prevent terrorists linked to the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda from entering the U.S. Iran has identified both groups as threats to Iranian national security and has provided military support to the governments of Iraq and Syria to battle them and related Sunni jihadist organizations. Though it did allow some aides to Usama bin Ladin to take refuge in Iran after the September 11 attacks—possibly as leverage against Saudi Arabia, its main regional adversary—Iran kept them under virtual house arrest and eventually expelled nearly all of them.

Link:http://soufangroup.com/tsg-intelbrie...s-aim-at-iran/

Has Iran really expelled nearly all of them?

[davidbfpo]

More of a historical note from The Soufan Group's IntelBrief today, following a drone strike that killed him in Syria:

After the September 11 attacks, al-Masri fled Afghanistan and went to Iran. Along with one of bin Ladin’s sons and Saif al-Adl—another top member of al-Qaeda—al-Masri was effectively placed on house arrest while in Iran. This arrangement was reflective of al-Qaeda and Iran’s long and complicated relationship, in which Tehran has essentially sheltered terrorists such as al-Adl and al-Masri, but limited their movements and activities. While the exact date is publicly uncertain, by late 2015 Iran had released al-Masri (along with al-Adl and others) in exchange for an Iranian diplomat held hostage by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). In July 2016, a Syrian al-Qaeda media outlet released an audio recording of al-Masri, showing that when he left Iran he went to Syria...

Link:http://www.soufangroup.com/tsg-intel...-for-al-qaeda/