Citizen diplomat Mansoor Ijaz has told Fox News that Osama bin Laden is hiding in Iran.
Citing an "unimpeachable source," Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are in Iran, according to a Fox News analyst.Al-Zawahiri was seen within the last two weeks, and bin Laden was spotted in July, says the network's foreign affairs analyst Mansoor Ijaz.
The report dovetails with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's announcement last summer that he had sent his own army into the northern tribal areas near the border with Iran to ferret out bin Laden.
"That was an extraordinary admission at the time, one that I could not understand how he could make if bin Laden, in fact, was still in that area," Ijaz told Fox News host Brit Hume. "Well, it turns out that it was around that time that bin Laden moved from the Afghan-Pakistani border into Iran."
via WorldNetDaily
Scholar and pundit Michael Ledeen said the same thing, but back in September when Ijaz thought Osama was still in Pakistan.
Posted by Alan at November 21, 2003 05:42 PM