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Monday, February 23, 2015
Iran coordinating with Al-Qaeda since 2007 to target US interests in Kingdom, Dubai: sources

Iran coordinating with Al-Qaeda since 2007 to target US interests in
Kingdom, Dubai: sources
Allegations revolve around Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda affiliate whom sources
say worked with Tehran on a number of failed operations
Nasser Al-Haqbani Asharq Al-Awsat Monday, 23 Feb, 2015
http://www.aawsat.net/2015/02/article55341746/iran-coordinating-with-al-qaeda-since-2007-to-target-us-interests-in-kingdom-dubai-sources

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iran has been coordinating with Al-Qaeda and its
affiliates since 2007 with the aim of carrying out terror attacks against US
targets in Dubai and Saudi Arabia, informed sources have told Asharq
Al-Awsat.

Speaking under condition of anonymity, the sources said coordination between
Iran and the global terrorist organization was mainly taking place through
Saudi citizen Saleh Al-Qarawi, a senior member of the organization who is on
the Kingdom’s most-wanted lists and is the founder of Al-Qaeda affiliate the
Abdullah Al-Azzam Brigades.

The sources contend Qarawi is the main Al-Qaeda figure coordinating
operations from inside Iran, where they say he has been moving freely for a
number of years and from where he has been recruiting other Saudi citizens
for the organization and coordinating their movement into Iran from the
Kingdom.

Along with Abdul Mohsen Al-Sharikh, another senior Saudi member of the
organization—and also on the Kingdom’s most-wanted lists—the sources accuse
Qarawi of planning a terror attack in Saudi Arabia aiming to abduct US
citizens residing in the country.

The plan eventually failed but the sources say Qarawi and Iran have been
coordinating on several other operations, including a planned attack in 2007
against a US army base in Jordan which was foiled by the Jordanian
authorities.

Qarawi and Iran have also coordinated on another failed operation, the
sources said, which planned to attack the US embassy in Dubai using either a
drone aircraft loaded with missiles and bombs or by having a pilot fly a
small aircraft used for flight instruction into the embassy building.

The sources said Qarawi was behind other failed operations including one to
bomb a Japanese oil tanker crossing the Strait of Hormuz in 2010 and planned
attacks on London’s Heathrow Airport.

Al-Qaeda and its affiliates have claimed responsibility for several terror
attacks on the Kingdom in recent years including a 2003 suicide bomb attack
targeting residential compounds—mainly housing foreigners—in the capital
Riyadh which killed 17 people and injured over 100.

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