Flashback: Bin Laden's No 2 'captured in Iran'
The Guardian | 04.08.2005 20:33
While the people who brought us "Iraq has WMD!!" are claiming this man has 'vowed more terror in London' - claims that are being uncritically repeated by the media - it is interesting to remember that he was arrested three years ago.
Meanwhile, the compelling, independently-verifiable evidence that would support Bliar's Conspiracy Theories about 7/7/21 (like video images from the most surveilled country in the world) is still suspiciously absent. The timing is very interesting, and bears investigation. Note the careful stage dressing, the placement of the rifle behind him, which is not typical of legitimate "terrorist" messages.
Meanwhile, the compelling, independently-verifiable evidence that would support Bliar's Conspiracy Theories about 7/7/21 (like video images from the most surveilled country in the world) is still suspiciously absent. The timing is very interesting, and bears investigation. Note the careful stage dressing, the placement of the rifle behind him, which is not typical of legitimate "terrorist" messages.
Bin Laden's No 2 'captured in Iran'
Rory McCarthy in Islamabad and Luke Harding in Kabul
Monday February 18, 2002
The Guardian
Osama bin Laden's most senior lieutenant, the Egyptian militant Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been captured and jailed in Tehran, a leading Iranian newspaper reported yesterday.
Zawahiri, the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, was arrested several days ago and has been imprisoned in the city's Evin jail, where political prisoners are usually held, the Hayat-e-Nou newspaper said.
If the report is correct, the arrest is the most serious strike at the heart of Bin Laden's al-Qaida network since the World Trade Centre attacks, and a diplomatic coup for Tehran.
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The FBI has Zawahiri on its most-wanted list in connection with the August 1998 bombings of two US embassies in east Africa in which 224 people were killed. It has offered a $25m reward for information leading to his capture.
The Farsi-language paper gave few details yesterday about the arrest and no indication of the source of its information. The paper is regarded as reliable and is run by Hadi Khamenei, a leading legislator and the brother of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But Iran's foreign ministry said last night. "The news that has been published in the Hayat-e-Nou newspaper is not true. We deny it," Hamid Reza Asefi, a foreign ministry spokesman, said.
In Kabul the interim government said many al-Qaida and Taliban fighters had crossed into Iran but it had no information on Zawahiri. "We are not aware that a person of al-Zawahiri's stature has been arrested," foreign ministry spokesman Omar Samad said.
Zawahiri, 50, who wears thick spectacles and a long, dark beard, is regarded as Bin Laden's closest ally. He has been living with him in Afghanistan for several years and often served as his personal doctor. In an interview in June last year, Bin Laden said he had merged Zawahiri's Islamic Jihad with al-Qaida.
In December, Afghan commanders involved in the attacks on Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan said they believed Zawahiri had recently been at the camp. His wife and three daughters were later reported to have died in a US bombing raid, although it was thought Zawahiri was not with them at the time.
Washington has criticised Tehran for allowing al-Qaida and Taliban fighters to slip across its border and Iran was named by George Bush([search]) as one of three "axis of evil" countries.
Rory McCarthy in Islamabad and Luke Harding in Kabul
Monday February 18, 2002
The Guardian
Osama bin Laden's most senior lieutenant, the Egyptian militant Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been captured and jailed in Tehran, a leading Iranian newspaper reported yesterday.
Zawahiri, the founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, was arrested several days ago and has been imprisoned in the city's Evin jail, where political prisoners are usually held, the Hayat-e-Nou newspaper said.
If the report is correct, the arrest is the most serious strike at the heart of Bin Laden's al-Qaida network since the World Trade Centre attacks, and a diplomatic coup for Tehran.
Article continues
The FBI has Zawahiri on its most-wanted list in connection with the August 1998 bombings of two US embassies in east Africa in which 224 people were killed. It has offered a $25m reward for information leading to his capture.
The Farsi-language paper gave few details yesterday about the arrest and no indication of the source of its information. The paper is regarded as reliable and is run by Hadi Khamenei, a leading legislator and the brother of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
But Iran's foreign ministry said last night. "The news that has been published in the Hayat-e-Nou newspaper is not true. We deny it," Hamid Reza Asefi, a foreign ministry spokesman, said.
In Kabul the interim government said many al-Qaida and Taliban fighters had crossed into Iran but it had no information on Zawahiri. "We are not aware that a person of al-Zawahiri's stature has been arrested," foreign ministry spokesman Omar Samad said.
Zawahiri, 50, who wears thick spectacles and a long, dark beard, is regarded as Bin Laden's closest ally. He has been living with him in Afghanistan for several years and often served as his personal doctor. In an interview in June last year, Bin Laden said he had merged Zawahiri's Islamic Jihad with al-Qaida.
In December, Afghan commanders involved in the attacks on Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan said they believed Zawahiri had recently been at the camp. His wife and three daughters were later reported to have died in a US bombing raid, although it was thought Zawahiri was not with them at the time.
Washington has criticised Tehran for allowing al-Qaida and Taliban fighters to slip across its border and Iran was named by George Bush([search]) as one of three "axis of evil" countries.
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Fake al-Zawahiri Video Warns of More Attacks
06.08.2005 19:20
author: Kurt Nimmo
Enter a digitally enhanced (wizened effect added) al-Zawahiri on videotape
Osama bin Laden died in December of 2001 from renal failure and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Ayman al-Zawahiri, described as Osama’s “senior lieutenant,” was captured by the Iranians in mid-February 2002 and remains in Tehran’s Evin jail with other political prisoners (see Bin Laden’s No 2 “captured in Iran,” Guardian, February 18, 2002). But in Bushzarro world, as we know, reality is not allowed to intrude and the engineered phantasmagoria rules, thus keeping alive the scary campfire story of “evil ideology” terrorists gunning (or suicide-bombing) for innocent Americans and Brits because they hate our way of life, freedom, etc., as Bush([search]) and his faithful British poodle keep telling us. In keeping with the fish story of villainous terrorists—who are, the corporate media tells us, nothing but wicked nihilists and depraved serial murderers—every so often we need to be reminded (lest we forget) that the minions of Osama and al-Zarqawi are still out there plotting mass murder and malicious carnage against the Good and Righteous, i.e., citizens of the Best Damn Country in the World.
Enter a digitally enhanced (wizened effect added) al-Zawahiri on videotape. “In a video broadcast Thursday on Arabic-language TV station Al Jazeera Ayman al-Zawahiri … issued a warning for the United States [and Britain],” reports the Bush Ministry of Disinformation, CNN division. “The video showed Zawahiri, seated, with a grayer beard than in previous tapes, and an automatic weapon at his side. There have been two previous al-Zawahiri videotapes this year—one in February and one in June.” Our digitally-remastered al-Zawahiri warned that if “you continue your politics against Muslims, you will see, God willing, such horror that you will forget the horrors of Vietnam.” In other words, expect more false flag operations in the future, or be afraid of such (and continue to mindlessly support the erosion of your civil liberties and follow the incessant drumbeat of war). “Didn’t Osama bin Laden tell you that you would never dream of peace until we actually live it in Palestine and before all foreign forces withdraw from the Land of Mohammed?” asked the fake al-Zawahiri, member of the MI-6-CIA penetrated Muslim Brotherhood (Hassan al-Turabi faction). In fact, the entire Mujahideen movement was a Muslim Brotherhood-CIA contrivance (by way of Makhtab al-Khidmat), not that we can expect CNN to make such heretical connections.
As for Osama—on occasion, he makes an appearance beyond the grave: “The last time bin Laden released a statement was in an audiotape late last December when he praised Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and designated him the al Qaeda leader in Iraq([search]).” Never mind that al-Zarqawi is dead as well, thus rendering the “leadership” of al-CIA-duh to the status of either jail birds (al-Zawahiri) or poltergeists, the latter known to manifest itself by the creation of disorder, as in suicide bombs and non-suicide bombs—or non-bombs delivered by way of Tupperware—making more explosive noise in the corporate media than on London’s transit system.
Kurt Nimmo