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March 11, 2013

Iran and al-Qaeda: Strange Bedfellows

Peter Bergen, CNN

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The appearance Friday in a lower Manhattan courtroom of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and one-time al Qaeda spokesman, to face charges of conspiracy to kill Americans underlines the perhaps surprising fact that members of bin Laden's inner circle have been living in Iran for the past decade or so.

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TAGGED: Iran, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama Bin Laden, al-Qaeda

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