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Ayman al-Zawahiri betrayed Osama: Saudi paper
2011-05-05
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

#9  Nope. Sadr dropped the dime. Its where Dinnerjacket has been the last couple days, oversight. Iran discovered Pakistan knowingly supplied a virus (they blamed it on the US/Israel hegemony, but in fact) bought/given from the Chinese so that both countries would have a nuclear ally in the region yet have hands on a leash. Sadr's contacts with AQ etc. during the fight with the Americans allowed Iranian/Sadr agents to leak small yet important pieces of information.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-05-05 16:29  

#8  The article seems to suppose that the courier who actually betrayed Osama would do so at the risk of his own life in the raid, since Osama was living in his own house.

It also repeats that misinformation that Osama was somehow ill. His autopsy showed that he was in good health and had no health issues, chronic or acute. That baloney about his having a kidney ailment was bogus. Rumsfeld was correct several years ago when he stated that the only information he had of any ailment was speculation in the media and he assumed Osama was in good health.
Posted by: crosspatch   2011-05-05 15:47  

#7  
(1) Assad betrayed Bin Laden---that's why Americans let that Alawite dog butcher Sirian Sunnis.
(2) Saudis have betrayed Bin Laden---that's why Americans let these Sunni dogs butcher Bahraini Shiites.
:-)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-05-05 15:10  

#6  I thought Ayman Al Zawahiri turned in Bin Laden in return for

a promise not to prosecute CAIR, or

agreeing to leave Janet Neapolitano at DHS,or

free TV coverage of the div I NCAA basketball tournament
Posted by: Lord Garth   2011-05-05 14:24  

#5  Because it's always a good idea to get your military training from a guy whose country hasn't ever won a war...

Now, now - they smacked Uncle Mo but good in that little four-day border cotillion in '77, so they're not completely winless. Of course, even the Chadians have kicked Gaddafi around the laundry room, so maybe that isn't all that impressive.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2011-05-05 13:59  

#4  Goat Boy Gadahn. Watch him, doc. A former infidel and an American? I mean, isn't it kinda obvious?
Posted by: tu3031   2011-05-05 12:06  

#3  The conspiracy theorists are working over time.

I fully expect a serious piece of journalism in a well respected Pakistani newspaper to claim that OBL/UBL(who cares he's dead) was abducted by aliens and the wounds on his body were part of some gruesome experiment. The DEVGRU was sent into recover his mutating and radioactive body to dispose of it. When members of the DEVGRU developed sores, tenacles and antenna, it was thought best to dispose of his body at sea. Of course, there has been a huge fish die off in the area and strange green glowing lights seen underwater.

How's that for an OBL conspiracy story???

Pretty good huh?
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2011-05-05 11:42  

#2  Looks like the Saudis are trying to split the Arabs apart from the Egyptians!
Posted by: Black Bart Phuling7750   2011-05-05 11:36  

#1  This is the kind of disinformation campaign I expect Rantburg to generate - nice to see somebody with influence reads us.
Posted by: Glenmore   2011-05-05 09:45  

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