Scary stuff from the right-wing :-) LA Times.
This could be a preamble to talks and diplomatic
wrangling, or it could be dead-on accurate stuff. -EY
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iranterror21mar21,0,6266532.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Some U.S. Officials Fear Iran Is Helping Al Qaeda
They say intelligence suggests that the regime
lets key figures plot. But the picture is cloudy.
By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
March 21, 2006
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials, already
focused on Iran's potential for building nuclear
weapons, are struggling to solve a more immediate
mystery: the murky relationship between the new
Tehran leadership and the contingent of Al Qaeda
leaders residing in the country.
Some officials, citing evidence from highly
classified satellite feeds and electronic
eavesdropping, believe the Iranian regime is
playing host to much of Al Qaeda's remaining brain
trust and allowing the senior operatives freedom
to communicate and help plan the terrorist
network's operations.
And they suggest that recently elected President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be forging an alliance
with Al Qaeda operatives as a way to expand Iran's
influence or, at a minimum, that he is looking the
other way as Al Qaeda leaders in his country
collaborate with their counterparts elsewhere.
"Iran is becoming more and more radicalized and
more willing to turn a blind eye to the Al Qaeda
presence there," a U.S. counter-terrorism official
said.
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