Daily Alert Archive

February 18, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senior-al-qaeda-figure-leaves-iran-amid-a-series-of-departures-by-terrorist-suspects/2014/02/14/b3291eda-9429-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html

Senior Al-Qaeda Figure Leaves Iran amid a Series of Departures by Terrorists

(Washington Post) Adam Goldman - Thirwat Shihata, a senior al-Qaeda figure who was the deputy of Ayman al-Zawahiri, has left Iran where he had lived after fleeing American forces in Afghanistan in 2001, according to U.S. intelligence officials. In the past two years, up to a dozen notable al-Qaeda figures have left Iran, and two have ended up in U.S. custody.

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive