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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv..._coordinat.php
Osama’s son coordinates call between Zawahiri and Iran’s Qods Force
By BILL ROGGIOJanuary 17, 2009 1:05 AM
Osama bin Laden’s son coordinated communications between al Qaeda’s second in command and Iran’s Qods Force, according to Mike McConnell , the outgoing Director of National Intelligence.
Sa’ad bin Laden facilitated communications between Ayman al Zawahiri and Qods Force, the notorious special operations branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, in September 2008 after the deadly attack on the US embassy in Yemen.
Sa’ad entered Pakistan’s northwest to meet with Zawahiri in Pakistan sometime in early September, McConnell claimed. Sa’ad’s whereabout is currently unknown but he is still thought to be with al Qaeda’s senior leadership inside Pakistan. Sa’ad, his brother Hamza, and other senior al Qaeda leaders are known to routinely travel back and forth between Iran and Pakistan.
Long Wire posted this on another thread and I think it helps support my opinion that Bin Laden has been in Iran eating McRib pork sandwiches all along since Tora Bora. The Wall Street Journal reported that Mike McConnell, the outgoing Director of National Intelligence, believes we have intel that Al Qaeda still has ongoing communications with Iran Qods Force as recent as Sept 2008. I think there maybe more to the story, like the possibility of Bin Laden's son passing love notes, old copies of Play Girl mags and audio tapes from Bin Laden in Iran to Zawahiri in Pakistan. I think its obvious Bin Laden and Zawahiri have not been together for years, which is evidenced by the lack of both of them appearing together in tapes. Of course, if Bin Laden is dead that may well explain why. However, I think he is in a compound receiving medical care in Iran and his movements and communications are greatly restricted thus the audio and no video.