littlurl.com - 1/19/2009
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Osama bin Laden’s son and three other senior al Qaeda members living in Iran have been designated as terrorists by the US Department of the Treasury. Sa'ad bin Laden, Mustafa Hamid, Muhammad Rab'a al Sayid al Bahtiti, and Ali Saleh Husain have been designated as terrorists under Executive Order ...
guardian.co.uk - 1/21/2009
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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: ...
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President Barack Obama willing to negotiate with Iran ...
nybooks.com - 1/18/2009
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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 ...
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How to Deal with Iran - The New York Review of Books
longwarjournal.org - 1/16/2009
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longwarjournal.org —
Osama bin Laden’s son and three other senior
al Qaeda members living in Iran have been designated...
as terrorists by the US Department of the Treasury. Sa'ad bin Laden, Mustafa Hamid, Muhammad Rab'a al Sayid al Bahtiti, and Ali Saleh Husain have ...
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US sanctions senior al Qaeda members sheltering in Iran
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US Sanctions Iran Based al Qaeda, Zawahiri Promises Fighters to Yemen
The Jawa Report —
... 1999 after Osama bin Laden contacted Yemeni authorities. Bin Attash later went on to have a role in the USS Cole bombing and train some of the 9/11 highjackers. In 2007, Yemens Foreign Minister defended the early release of al Qaeda operatives convicted in the USS Cole bombing as normal saying, "Everybody makes deals with anybody who cooperates, not just in Yemen, but in the United States." Among those in Iran the US Treasury Department designated as terrorists last week is Yemeni Ali Saleh Husain. A senior al Qaeda operative close to Osama bin Laden, Husain goes by the ...
Zawahiri Pledges New Fighters to Yemen’s Sa’ada War
Armies of Liberation —
... Osama bin Laden contacted Yemeni authorities. Bin Attash later went on to have a role in the USS Cole bombing and train some of the 9/11 highjackers. In 2007, Yemenâs Foreign Minister defended the early release of al Qaeda operatives convicted in the USS Cole bombing as ânormalâ saying, “Everybody makes deals with anybody who cooperates, not just in Yemen, but in the United States.” Among those in Iran the US Treasury Department designated as terrorists last week is Yemeni Ali Saleh Husain. A senior al Qaeda operative close to Osama bin Laden, Husain goes by the ...
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