U.S. in Bind Over Men Held by Iran

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Accusation of 'Harboring' Could Anger Tehran Into Freeing Al-Qaeda Targets

By Dafna Linzer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 10, 2007; Page A01

Last week, the CIA sent an urgent report to President Bush's National Security Council: Iranian authorities had arrested two al-Qaeda operatives traveling through Iran on their way from Pakistan to Iraq. The suspects were caught along a well-worn, if little-noticed, route for militants determined to fight U.S. troops on Iraqi soil, according to a senior intelligence official.

The arrests were presented to Bush's senior policy advisers as evidence that Iran appears committed to stopping al-Qaeda foot traffic across its borders, the intelligence official said. That assessment comes at a time when the Bush administration, in an effort to push for further U.N. sanctions on the Islamic republic, is preparing to publicly accuse Tehran of cooperating with and harboring al-Qaeda suspects ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/09/AR2007020902294.html

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1. Was one of the men Osama?

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