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Iran Receives Al-Qaeda Praise for Role in Terrorist Attacks
[Telegraph-UK] Con Coughlin - Fresh links between Iran's Revolutionary Guards and al-Qaeda have been uncovered following interception of a letter from the terrorist leadership that hails Tehran's support for a recent attack on the American embassy in Yemen, which killed 16 people. Delivery of the letter exposed the rising role of Saad bin Laden, son of Osama, as an intermediary between al-Qaeda and Iran. Saad has been living in Iran since the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001. Western security officials said the missive thanked the leadership of Iran's Revolutionary Guards for providing assistance to al-Qaeda to set up its terrorist network in Yemen, which has suffered ten al-Qaeda-related terror attacks in the past year, including two bomb attacks against the American embassy. The letter, signed by Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's second in command, pays tribute to Iran's generosity, stating that without its "monetary and infrastructure assistance" it would not have been possible for the group to carry out the terror attacks.