The Telegraph headline says that the documents “reveal” Iran’s “secret” dealings with al-Qaeda, but anyone who read my 2016 book The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran would already know that Iran collaborated with al-Qaeda, including in the preparations for the 9/11 jihad attacks.
“Trove of Bin Laden documents reveal Iran’s secret dealings with al-Qaeda,” by Josie Ensor, Telegraph, November 1, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
A newly released trove of documents recovered from Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound have revealed “secret dealings” between Iran and al-Qaeda.
Nearly half a million files found on the computer seized in the May 2, 2011, US raid on the al-Qaeda founder’s hideout in Abbottabad were released by the CIA on Wednesday.
A never-before-seen 19-page document purportedly written by a senior member of al-Qaeda details an arrangement between Iran and members of the group to strike American interests in “Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.”
In exchange, Shia Iran offered Sunni militants “money, arms” and “training in Hizbollah camps in Lebanon.”
Iranian intelligence facilitated the travel of some operatives with visas, while sheltering others.
The author of the file, described as “well-connected,” explains that al-Qaeda’s forces violated the terms of the agreement of the deal, however, resulting in several men being detained.
Iranian connections to Hizballah and Palestinian militant groups, such as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, are well-documented, but its ties to al-Qaeda have until now mostly been shrouded in secrecy.
The timing of the release comes as US President Donald Trump is trying to decertify a bilateral deal agreed with Iran to end its nuclear proliferation programme, which was negotiated by his predecessor Barack Obama and one which he has described as the “worst deal ever made”.
Mr Trump has been keen to portray Tehran as America’s greatest threat and will no doubt seize upon the documents as proof of the Islamic republic’s support for terrorism in the region.
Speaking at a national security seminar organised by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington DC last month about the release of the documents, Mike Pompeo, CIA director, said al-Qaeda and Iran have always built “secret and open” ties.
Mr Pompeo attributed the relationship between the two parties to the fact that they view the West as a common enemy, referring to an “ideological consensus” of their cooperation against the West.
He added that the two sides did not fight against each other because they considered the West a greater threat to them….
SoCalMike says
“US President Donald Trump is trying to decertify a bilateral deal agreed with Iran…”
Wouldn’t you just love to spit on the Telegraph news writer for blowing this lie and polishing precious Obama’s image?
I know I would.
RichardL says
I always thought that “my enemy’s enemy is my friend” had islamic origins. No big surprise there. I also have always maintained that it is a strategic maxime that guarantees failure. Of course not if Barack Hussein is rooting for the away team…
mortimer says
Jihadists are the friends of each other as long as they are both attacking the kafirs.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Of course not if Barack Hussein is rooting for the away team…
Back in 2008 when he was elected many said that then Senator Barack Hussein was a Manchurian Candidate. When he released finally released his birth certificate, which was clearly a fake, RINOs like Bill O’Reilly promptly deemed the controversy finished and anybody who questioned his place of birth was, as Hillary would put it, a birther. Those questioning Barack Hussein’s loyalty were derided as nut cases.
But the Iran deal was clearly counter to America’s interests. Before it was signed Iran’s president had publicly expressed his desire to nuke the USA with an EMP.
Now we find out that the Barack Hussein administration committed fraud to sell ownership of 20% of our uranium stock to a Canadian company owned by Russia, and that the NRC had authorized the export of some yellow cake to Canada from whence it went to Europe and from there to… Iran?
Turns out the supposed nut cases weren’t so wrong after all.
mortimer says
Clueless Obama and all the clueless minions of the Crooked Clintons assumed PREPOSTEROUSLY that WITHOUT READING EVEN ONE of Islam’s primary source books, they knew more about Islam and were MORE QUALIFIED to make policy about Islam than those who have spent a lifetime studying Islam and have written several books on jihad!
Western policy about Islam is being created by the UNINFORMED. This amounts to political malpractice and CULPABLE NEGLIGENCE regarding the need to make INFORMED and LEARNED decisions about Islam.
Message to Western politicians: Immediately read the 17 books about jihad written by Robert Spencer.
Muslims are not honestly going to INFORM Western politicians about their SUPREMACIST PLANS for the Western world.
Muslim leaders are providing copious DISINFORMATION to our Western leaders and they are CLUELESS AND GULLIBLE and accept everything they are told uncritically.
gravenimage says
I think Obama actually knew quite a bit about Islam. He was not just a clueless dhimmi like most of these tools.
Infidel says
No No … Evil Obama was JUST PRETENDING to be clueless.. His main agenda was the INSIDIOUS destruction of the USA
Lookmann says
Critics/ fans of Robert Ludlum think that the Author must have had a source inside FBI,something
difficult to believe considering Hoover’s total control over the institution.
Likewise I wonder if Spencer has / had a source inside CIA .( LOL)
gravenimage says
Much of this information is available if you look for it–you don’t need an “inside source” for most of it.
The problem is that most Infidels don’t want to know about the threat of Islam.
Walter Sieruk says
About that September 11, 2001 jihad murderous affront against both humankind and America the following might be interesting to some people. A type of thinking of many from Middle East is the sayings that “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This type of Middle Eastern “philosophy” may explain, to a degree, how Muslims of two different branches of Islam which are hostile to each other can work together against what they perceive as a “common enemy.”
In this case the mullahs and other in power in Shi ‘ite Iran can work with the jihadists of al Qaeda against which they see as “The Great Satan” By that term they mean the United States of America. As the Muslim author, Rohan Gunaratna , explained in his book INSIDE AL QAEDA . For on page 198 it reveals that among different Islamic terror originations that “Ideological tolerance and intergroup cohesion as a means confronting a common enemy.” So another author, Robert Spencer, in his book which is entitled THE COMPLETE INFIDEL’S GUIDE TO IRAN supply’s information about this topic. It has been keyboarded that this book reveals “Iran’s long –standing support of terrorists- including shocking evidence that Iran helped plain the 9/11 attack.”
mortimer says
Iran and Pakistan aided and abetted OBL as well as his organization. Pakistan built a safe house for OBL next to Pakistan’s ‘West Point’. All the local people next to the hideout guessed correctly that OBL was in there.
Iran and Pakistan are no friends to the US. Their leadership are fanatical, delusional jihadists.
Both Pakistani and Iranian leaders should be approached and spoken to as mental patients.
Paul N Silas says
Many years ago I read a book by the same author of “Black Hawk Down” entitled “Guests of the Ayatollah” . In this book the author documents that the “Islamic” radicals that took over Iran during the Jimmy Carter years were mostly trained at Berkley by SDS members and other Leftists.
It is also a documented fact that the head Ayatollah of Iran today, attended the Patrice Lumumba, which is a FSB/KGB school. Yasser Arafat was also a student there too.
Bottom line, Putin’s Russia and Iran are very-very close.
DRHazard says
So just a little bit of enriched uranium could be handed over to a random Muslim by the self-appointed spokesmen for Shia Islam and start WWW3 in the process
gravenimage says
Osama bin Laden documents show Iran’s extensive aid to al-Qaeda
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Yes. So much for the idea that Shia terrorists never work with Sunni terrorists.
Infidel says
Sunnis HATE Shia to the death and it would be natural for Wahhabi Sunni OBL to hate Shia Iran and its mad Mullas. Yet, I have often seen in my life thru PERSONAL EXP is that while these two gangs of beasts (Shias and Sunnis) hate each other’s guts, they WILL ALWAYS GANG UP AGAINST THE KHAFIR… So how united they are in their hatred of Israel..
Infidel says
And ps remember that for Muslims.. the Khafir is the biggest enemy and they get lots of brownie points in their world for the hatred of the Khafir as well as killing them…
Theo Prinse says
President Donald Trump never said that shia Iran was behind sunni Al Qaeda.
It is time to expose and hold responsible those countries who support and finance terror groups like al Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Taliban and others that slaughter innocent people.
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/19/trump-un-speech-2017-full-text-transcript-242879
The lie that president Trump said that Iran is behind sunni Al Qaeda originates from Alarabya.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/09/21/Revealing-the-relationship-of-al-Qaeda-s-Minister-of-Information-with-Iran.html
Fmr president Hussein Obama was behind Timber Sycamore was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and supported by various Arab intelligence services, most notably that of Saudi Arabia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore