Al Qaeda Iran Links
Thats funny, even some of the jihaddis can’t wrap their heads around al Qaeda and Iran. (Also very funny was the reaction at Muslm.net and Hanein when someone swapped out some beheading photos with bikini girls: “Raise the supervisors! I have pictures of prostitutes in the Muslim !!!!!!!” A gruesome photo spread of sawing off a human head is good to look at, but outrage and hysteria ensued at a picture of a female.They concluded they were being attacked by Zionists. After a couple of hours of lamenting and frantically beseeching for the moderator, both threads were deleted.) Anyway, a more traditional analysis of the forum from Jamestown:
A discussion in jihadi internet forums triggered by a posting entitled “Is there a secret cooperation between Iran and al-Qaeda?” raised suspicions over possible clandestine connections between Shiite Iran and al-Qaeda, the self-declared enemy of Shi’ism (muslm.net, February 18, 2008).
A jihadi forum chatter nicknamed al-Natiq bil-Shahada posted a message in the jihad forum that raised the issue of al-Qaeda’s possible secret relations with Iran. Even though Iran’s Islamic creed is in stark contrast with al-Qaeda’s Salafi-Jihadi ideology, Shahada wonders why al-Qaeda never targeted Iranian interests inside or outside Iran. “Much skepticism revolves around al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has been active in Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt, Europe and the U.S. but never in Iran,” says Shahada, who goes on to cite new Western reports of a letter allegedly sent from al-Qaeda to Iran’s leadership, thanking them for the support of the Revolutionary Guards in carrying out the September 2008 attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen (Daily Telegraph, November 24, 2008)…. According to the forum members, al-Zawahiri has close relations with Iranian Revolutionary Guard Brigadier Mohammad Baqir al-Qadir. Finally, some forum members highlighted Iran’s refusal to hand over to their countries of origin al-Qaeda members who fled from Afghanistan into Iran.
