Iran frees bin Laden son

[MtnGoat]

I haven't seen anything on the news with this one, nor the web till today. BUT..

Iran frees bin Laden son -German newspaper
Wed Aug 2, 2006 5:56 PM BST


BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border. It linked the reported move to the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanese-based Hizbollah.

"From the Lebanese border, he has the task of building Islamist terror cells and preparing them to fight together with Hizbollah," Die Welt said, quoting intelligence information.

"Apparently Tehran is counting on recruiting Lebanese refugees in Syria for the fight against Israel, using bin Laden's help," it added in a preview of a report to appear in its Thursday edition.

Western intelligence sources have long suspected that Iran is holding a number of al Qaeda figures, possibly including Saad bin Laden and Saif al-Adel, the network's security chief.

Kamal Kharrazi, then Iran's foreign minister, said in January 2004 that Tehran had jailed about a dozen al Qaeda suspects and would put them on trial.

"Our general view is Iran certainly does have a few al Qaeda-related figures ... The general perception is Iran keeps these people as a bargaining chip," said a European counter-terrorism official when asked about the Die Welt report.

He said Shia Muslim Iran was not sympathetic to members of Sunni-dominated al Qaeda but "they protect them as long as they think they can make use of them".

Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri issued a video message last week in which, while not mentioning Hizbollah by name, he urged Muslims everywhere to "fight and become martyrs" in response to the conflict in Lebanon.

Israel accuses Iran of providing Hizbollah with missiles to use against civilian and military targets. Tehran, which armed and funded Hizbollah in the 1980s, insists it now provides only moral support to the group.


Love to see this make the Evening news.

[MtnGoat]

Lets look at this with what going on in the area or region. The reports of Usama bin Laden’s son, Sa’ad-o-shizhead, has been released from his so called “house arrest” by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) [Gov't]. Why was he released should be the better question. What did Sa'ad do before hand? Is he now ordered or asked by IRGC to lead or organie Hezbollah against Israel?

Or is he maybe to organize “Islamist terror cells” in Syria and/or Lebanon agianst US or UK forces? should we go to Lebanon, or ask him to go to Iraq. Would this move seriously undermine al-Qaeda’s (AQ) leadership of the largely Salafi global jihadi movement? Yes this is crazy thinking but, really why did he get released last week?

Why such a decision might be detrimental to AQ and the jihadi movements.

[Razor]

The bigger question is why was the information released at all? A dare? A bluff? Bait?

[JMI]

"We're sending OBL's son to the front to fight the infidels."

Who?

"You heard us. OBL's son! (cue scary music)"

Um, never heard of him.

"We mean it! This is all out war against infidels."

As opposed to yesterdays all out war, and the day before that, etc..