Several key al Qaeda members, including the security chief and Osama bin Laden’s son, are in Iran, which has not responded to a request by Saudi Arabia to hand over any of its citizens among them, a senior Saudi official said on Tuesday. He said those in Iran included: Saad bin Laden, an older son of the Saudi-born al Qaeda leader; Egyptian Saif al-Adel, believed to be the network’s security chief; Kuwait-born Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, al Qaeda’s spokesman; and Jordanian Abu Musab Zarqawi, who has suspected al Qaeda ties and is accused of plotting the murder of a U.S. diplomat in Amman last year. “We are very much confident, actually, that those names are there as well as others,” the Saudi official told a small group of reporters on condition of anonymity. Full Story
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