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15 Nov 2020, 3:03 pm

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/worl ... in%20Laden.

Always suspected Iran to be using Al Qaeda.



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15 Nov 2020, 3:40 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/middleeast/al-masri-abdullah-qaeda-dead.html#:~:text=Abdullah%20Ahmed%20Abdullah%2C%20who%20went,Laden's%20son%20Hamza%20bin%20Laden.

Always suspected Iran to be using Al Qaeda.

Why on Earth would you have "always suspected" such a thing?

If indeed Iran is using/helping Al Qaeda, I would expect that to be a recent development at most, perhaps a reaction to Trump's saber-rattling against Iran?

I certainly would not expect there to have been any longterm alliance between Iran and Al Qaeda, given how much Al Qaeda and other Wahabi/Salafi Muslims hate Shi'ites.


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15 Nov 2020, 7:52 pm

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/middleeast/al-masri-abdullah-qaeda-dead.html#:~:text=Abdullah%20Ahmed%20Abdullah%2C%20who%20went,Laden's%20son%20Hamza%20bin%20Laden.

Always suspected Iran to be using Al Qaeda.


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16 Nov 2020, 2:03 am

Mona Pereth wrote:
The_Face_of_Boo wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/world/middleeast/al-masri-abdullah-qaeda-dead.html#:~:text=Abdullah%20Ahmed%20Abdullah%2C%20who%20went,Laden's%20son%20Hamza%20bin%20Laden.

Always suspected Iran to be using Al Qaeda.

Why on Earth would you have "always suspected" such a thing?

If indeed Iran is using/helping Al Qaeda, I would expect that to be a recent development at most, perhaps a reaction to Trump's saber-rattling against Iran?

I certainly would not expect there to have been any longterm alliance between Iran and Al Qaeda, given how much Al Qaeda and other Wahabi/Salafi Muslims hate Shi'ites.



Yet Iran has long been an ally with Muslim brotherhood and its branches (ie.Hamas) - who are not much better than Salafists.

Osama Bin Laden and Ayman el Zawahiri were both members of MB before founding Al Qaeda.

Bush (junior) talked about this Iran-Qaeda link and no one believed him back then; because most were reasoning like you (Salafi hating Shi’ites). “Hate” and “love” often don’t determine devilish alliances tho, both have common enemies: US and Saudi Arabia’s royal family.

Now the very presence of this Qaeda leader in Iran is a proof that Bush was right on this; surely he was not doing tourism in Tehran.

I hope Biden’s foreign policy will not empower Iran, like how Obama did.



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16 Nov 2020, 1:18 pm

@Mona

Obviously it's not a recent relationship due to Trump's policy against Iran.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKCN1002VK

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/al-qaeda-iran


Btw, I lean more toward Trump's policy toward Iran, Iran is a terrorist state ruled by backward Doom-day lunatics; it should not possess any nuclear technology of any form or shape.
Democrats tend to have this weird reasoning that "Iran is more advanced and civilized than Arab countries" (and that reflected in their foreign policies, during Obama's administration the US-Arab relations worsened a lot), this maybe true 3 decades ago before their Islamic regime but now you're so totally wrong on that; even Saudi Arabia is culturally getting ahead of them lately.