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Osama Iran
December 23rd, 2009Shortly after 9/11, I said that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Iran.
Being a strategist by nature, bin Laden knew that once the Twin Towers collapsed, he would be a hunted man. He also would have realized that hiding in the mountains of Tora Bora would make him findable and killable — no strategist would ever consider escaping into a wide-open dead-end alley or a place that could be nuked without regret.
However, slipping into Iran offered bin Laden both protection and production facilities necessary to continue the propaganda end of his global terror operation. In post 9/11 video tapes we see bin Laden in clean clothes, in climate controlled rooms and otherwise looking like your typical urban Arab. He was not hiding in a cave — he was hiding in a penthouse.
Today comes word that some of Osama’s closest kin have been seen in an Iranian compound. A wife and kid who were in Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks have been spotted outside Tehran, and they have contacted bin Laden family elsewhere. The most innocent reading of this news shows that bin Laden had an operational understanding with the Iranian theocracy, providing his immediate family shelter. A more strategic reading indicates that Osama scooted west, not east, after the towers fell.
And now Iran is making nuclear bombs.
