Osama bin Laden, dead since 2001, hiding in Iran

It's almost hysterically funny, except it's this type of bullshit that will be used, albeit in an indirect, subliminal way, to sell war against Iran. Bin Laden is dead. He's been dead. They know he's dead. But they need to keep him alive, because the war on turr'r can't be won at least until they finally, for the love of god, kill him. Having outlived his usefulness in Afghanistan, since most Americans don't give a rat's ass that this conflict is now America's longest war ever - ever - nor do most Americans seem to care that the war has no end in sight and may never end, we are now told bin Laden's packed up shop and moved to Iran. What a coincidence, and what horrible luck for Amurr'ca's newest turr'ist threat!

Sadly, as funny as this is to people who are capable of rational thought, millions of Americans, incapable of irrational thought, actually swallow this absurdity whole. Just start bombing already.

DEBKA -

Osama bin Laden's hiding place was pinned down for the first time Monday, June 7, by the Kuwaiti Al-Siyassa Monday, June 7, as the mountainous town of Savzevar in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, 220 km west of Mashhad. He is said to have lived there under Tehran's protection for the last five years, along with Ayman Al-Zawahiri and five other high-ranking al Qaeda leaders.


debkafile's intelligence sources disclosed Monday night that Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan and his intelligence chiefs are well aware that Bin Laden and Zawahiri are hiding in Iran. The leak to the Kuwait paper was intended to show the Obama administration that the Turkish leader's ties with Iran had grown intense enough for him to be fully in the picture of Iran's secret sanctuary for the authors of the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

Savzevar, a small town of about a quarter of a million inhabitants, is connected by road to Tehran and Mashhad and has a small airport. A center for producing grapes and raisins, its location is remote and difficult to access because it is enclosed by lofty mountains and a salt desert 50,000 square kilometers in area.

On May 13, American intelligence sources reported in detail that senior al Qaeda operatives living in Iran had been allowed to leave the country through Syria to orchestrate terrorist attacks on American targets. Among them was Saif al-Adel, who is believed to have been assigned with planning an attack on the world soccer games opening in South Africa on June 12.

Those sources noted that Saif al-Adel had received his instructions directly from Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri but did not reveal knowledge of their presence in Iran.

debkafile's counter-terror sources disclose that the purpose of airing their precise whereabouts at this time, aside from implicating the Turkish leader, was first, to warn al Qaeda's leaders that their hideout was blown and they had better move on - which would make them easier to catch; and, second, to nudge US president Barak Obama into a decision to go after them.

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