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Ayman al-Zawahiri betrayed Osama: Saudi paper
Al Qaeda chief the late Osama bin Laden
... who no longer exists...
 was betrayed by his deputy Ayman al- Zawahiri who led US forces to his hideout as the two were involved in an intense power struggle, a Saudi newspaper has reported.
If we had a CIA that was competent at all we'd be spreading that rumor everywhere, along with the rumor that it was also Mullah Omar, Perv Musharraf, President Ten-Percent, and Short Round.
The two top al Qaeda men had differences and the courier who led US forces to bin Laden was working and had more loyalties for Zawahiri, al Watan newspaper reported quoting Arab sources.

"The Egyptian faction of al-Qaeda led by Zawahiri was defacto running the militant group, after bin Laden was taken ill in 2004 and they were trying to take full control," the paper said.

The courier was a Pakistani national and not a Kuwaiti as the US suspected and the man knew he was being followed but disguised the fact.
Knew he was being followed? Please. If the CIA is on the ball it spreads the story that we had pics of the courier and his goat, and the courier rolled over for us.
The paper claimed it was Zawahiri's faction which had persuaded Osama to leave tribal areas close to Afghanistan- Pakistan border to take shelter instead in Abbottabad, where he was finally killed by US SEALs on Monday.

The plan to dispose off bin Laden had by a prominent al-Qaeda commander Saif al Adel of Egyptian descent, who returned to Pakistan from Iran, last autumn.
Oh yes, let's get the Iranians in on the conspiracy...
Al Adel had reportedly escaped to Iran escorting Osama's other son and family members after 9/11.

Al-Adel is a member of the majlis al shura of al-Qaeda and a member of its military committee, and he provided military and intelligence training to members of al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sudan, and to anti-UN Somali tribes.
Because it's always a good idea to get your military training from a guy whose country hasn't ever won a war...

Posted by: tipper 2011-05-05
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=321903