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IRAN PAPER REPORTS ZAWAHIRI AS "ARRESTED IN TEHERAN"...
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.
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 (his name means "The one, who appears..."), 50, is an Egyptian Medical doctor, who always seems to "appear at the right time".
"..."Intriguing," isn't it? Allawi is a "Brother". That would make Ahmadinejad a Brother TOO. And the Zionists are engineering a take-over under cover of the withdrawals from the Gaza, Samaria, and Judaea.
This is indeed a very critical timeframe!
The new Iranian president looks to me prepped and ready to betray Iran. Many of the "Iranian" mullahs are Turks, if you will recall...."
The Iranian "Islamic revolution" was engineered by the CIA and is consistent with the history of Anglo-American ME intrigues from even before the days of TE Lawrence.
