Osama bin Laden is currently in Iran, where he is receiving medical treatment, meeting with top Iranian government officials, and plotting new terrorist attacks against America, a new book says.
Story Continues Below
In "Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran," best-selling investigative reporter Kenneth R. Timmerman reveals the whereabouts of safe houses where bin Laden and top al-Qaida operatives have been sheltered by the Iranian regime, and describes how the regime is continuing to provide material assistance to al-Qaida even today.
Timmerman's startling revelations come from a recent defector who held a top position in Iranian intelligence. The defector provided documents and other material evidence - including a detailed description of a meeting last November between bin Laden and top Iranian government officials at a safe house in northern Iran.
Timmerman conducted extensive face-to-face debriefings with the defector in Europe and at an undisclosed location in the Middle East.
Other defectors and intelligence sources Timmerman interviewed for "Countdown to Crisis" corroborated key elements of the defector's story and provided new details of the deadly Iran-al-Qaida connection.
The CIA calls the defector a "fabricator of monumental proportions," but Timmerman reveals that this is because he tried to warn the CIA two months before 9/11 of a "massive attack on America" scheduled for September 11, 2001. The CIA brushed off his warning and since 9/11 has tried to smear and discredit him.
Timmerman's years of working with defectors and dissidents won him a back-handed compliment on June 27, 2000, when a hard-line regime newspaper called him the head of the CIA's covert "human intelligence" effort to overthrow the clerical regime in Iran.
Among the assertions in Timmerman's new book:
Osama bin Laden met with top Iranian leaders in a regime safehouse in northern Iran in late 2004 to discuss future terror attacks against the United States and its allies.
The Iranian regime has been sheltering bin Laden and providing him medical care since that time.
The Iranian regime is also sheltering other top al-Qaida leaders, including bin laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, and his top military planner, Saif al-Adil.
Bin Laden's eldest son, Saad bin Laden, has been in Iran since May 2001, when he was received as the "future leader" of al-Qaida in the event his father was killed during U.S. retaliatory attacks for the 9/11 attack.
Commenting on Timmerman's new book, 9/11 commissioner and former Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman wrote:
"With so many amateur intelligence experts clouding the public dialogue, it is a pleasure to read the work of an author of real professionalism. Timmerman adds texture and clarity to the gross failures of our intelligence establishment, and new visibility to the role of Iran in the Islamist war against America."
Editor's note:
New book offers details of bin Laden�s nuclear plans � Click Here Now
Get your Web site listed on NewsMax.com � reach millions for pennies! Click Here Now!
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Al-Qaida
War on Terrorism
Print Page 
Forward Page 
