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Osama’s son coordinates call between Zawahiri and Iran’s Qods Force
longwarjournal.org - 1/17/2009
Osama’s son coordinates call between Zawahiri and Iran’s Qods Force
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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 ...
guardian.co.uk - 1/21/2009
President Barack Obama willing to negotiate with Iran 'without preconditions'
— guardian.co.uk — The new Obama administration is willing to talk to Iran "without preconditions" and will work towards the... abolition of nuclear weapons, the White House said today. The Obama foreign policy agenda that appeared on the White House website said: ... (more) President Barack Obama willing to negotiate with Iran ...

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Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 1/12/2009
Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - Glenn Greenwald
— salon.com — [updated below -- Update II (Obama's prior NIE statement)] Regarding Barack Obama's statements about Iran yesterday during... his ABC News interview, Charles Davis makes an excellent point (h/t Jonathan Schwarz ): President-elect Barack Obama in an ... (more) Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran - ...

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nybooks.com - 1/18/2009
How to Deal with Iran - The New York Review of Books
— nybooks.com — COMMENTS ON THIS ARTICLE The central recommendation of this article is that the US must engage Iran... directly and without preconditions, one of the primary recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. These distinguished authors have a firm grasp of the ... (more) How to Deal with Iran - The New York Review of Books

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Victory Caucus -- All Content:  Bill Roggio: Osama’s son coordinates call between Zawahiri and Iran’s Qods Force

Armies of Liberation:  I Question the Timing

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Bill Roggio: Osama’s son coordinates call between Zawahiri and Iran’s Qods Force
Victory Caucus -- All Content — ... Saturday, 17 January 2009 Sa ad bin Laden facilitated communications between Ayman al Zawahiro and the Iranians after the September 2008 assault on the US embassy in Sana'a, Yemen. read ...

I Question the Timing
Armies of Liberation — First, Zawahiri promises Saleh more fighters: Long War Journal - Tensions between the Saleh government and al Qaeda increased after an al Qaeda assault team conducted a coordinated attack on the US embassy in Sana’a. “Saleh feared his government would be the next target, but Zawahiri wanted al Qaeda prisoners released from Yemeni jails and committed al Qaeda foot soldiers to fight the Houthi rebels. Zawahiri does not want to sour relations” between al Qaeda and Iran, “so he took great care by reaching out to the Iranians.” Second, the Saudi branch of Al Qaeda formally ...

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