Zarqawi not in Iran, says official

[Reza_Pahlavi]

Re: Zarqawi not in Iran, says official

@Ohioguy

It would be so much easier to believe that Iran was not sheltering Al Qaeda if the Saudis were not capturing them in Iran!

"Saudi intelligence officers tracked and apprehended Khaled bin Ouda bin Mohammed al-Harbi last year in eastern Iran, officials said. The arrest came nearly three years after the cleric had appeared with bin Laden and discussed details of the Sept. 11 planning during a dinner that was videotaped and aired across the world.

The capture was a coup for Saudi Arabia, which spent months tracking him and setting up the intelligence operation that led to his being taken into custody in exchange for eventual amnesty.

The officials said interrogations of al-Harbi, who is now in Saudi Arabia, have yielded confirmation of many al-Qaida tactics, including how members crossed into Iran after the U.S. began military operations to rout al-Qaida and the Taliban from Afghanistan.

Al-Harbi is believed to have been paralyzed from the waist down while fighting in the 1990s alongside Muslim extremists in Bosnia and Afghanistan, and he surprised intelligence officials when he appeared in the December 2001 video with bin Laden.

“Everybody praises what you did,” al-Harbi said on the tape."

http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_TERRORISTS?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME

Haha a keyboard cowboy defending the indefensible by quoting the Saudi’s!