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Al-Qaida in Iran - A glance
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/nation_world_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2420_2369842,00.html

By Associated Press
October 23, 2003

Some of the senior al-Qaida operatives who may be in Iran, according to U.S. officials:

Saif al-Adil, considered the No. 3 man in al-Qaida still at large. U.S. indictments accuse him of coordinating the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole and the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings and helping train the Somali militiamen who fought U.S. forces in Mogadishu in 1993. Some officials have said he may be connected to the May bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco. If true, this suggests he was able to communicate and possibly move money around at that time.

Abu Mohamed al-Masri, also known as Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah. Like al-Adil, he was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a group with known contacts to the Qods Force in Iran. He has been charged with playing an organizational role in the embassy bombings and ran a training camp in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Saad bin Laden, one of Osama bin Laden's elder sons. U.S. counterterrorism officials say Saad has been a rising star within al-Qaida but is currently a midlevel figure in terms of his actual authority within the organization.

Abu Hafs the Mauritanian, an ideological counselor to Osama bin Laden and a terrorist planner. It is unclear if he is still in Iran.

Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian operative the CIA describes as a close associate of bin Laden. Zarqawi's current whereabouts are unknown, but he is thought to be coordinating operations in Iraq and may be inside that country.