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New Al Qaeda Leader Claims He Has Nothing To Do With Al Qaeda, Calls 9/11 A “Fabrication”

Evidence suggests al-Adel figure is another intelligence ghost

Amidst reports that Saif al-Adel, otherwise known as Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi, has been appointed the new al Qaeda leader, a man claiming to be the real Makkawi insists that he has nothing to do with al Qaeda and describes 9/11 as a “fabrication”.

The source for the reports that al-Adel has become the al Qaeda number one, in the wake of the demise of Osama Bin Laden, is one time Libyan militant Noman Benotman, a former jihadi who renounced the ideology in 2002 and has since often been cited as a reliable source on al Qaeda activity by Western media and governments.

The case of al-Adel/Makkawi, however, raises significant questions and will only serve to create more mythology and suspicion concerning the real origins and objectives of the terror group.

Saif al-Adel, literally meaning “sword of justice,” was supposedly the “nom-de-guerre” adopted by a former Egyptian special forces colonel known as Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi. Makkawi was accused of masterminding the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat in 1988, before joining up with the mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet invasion.

He is under indictment for participation in the 1998 African embassy bombings and for establishing al Qaeda training facilities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan and Somalia. He is also rumoured to have been involved in the USS Cole bombing in 2000. At some point he is said to have become a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden.

So far al-Adel/Makkawi’s reported history fits the bill of radical jihadi fighter. However, here’s where it gets strange.

After 9/11, al-Adel/Makkawi vanished from the face of the earth for nine years.

In 2003, it was reported that al-Adel/Makkawi had been captured in Iran, of all places. The story goes that Iranian authorities had held al-Adel/Makkawi under house arrest since he was detained along with other al Qaeda figures, including Saad bin Laden, son of Osama in 2001. The Iranian government has denied the claims.

“U.S. intelligence officials said the group was detained when crossing into Iran from Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to avoid capture by U.S. forces.” reported the Washington Post.

“The question is, what does house arrest mean in the Iranian context?” said Michael Scheuer, a former CIA analyst who led the agency’s unit dedicated to tracking Osama bin Laden. Scheuer and other analysts said it was likely that Adel and the others were being held by the Iranian government as a bargaining chip as well as a deterrent in its strained dealings with the U.S. government.

“Iran appears to be hoping to exchange al-Adel with Washington, in return for the handover of senior leaders in the anti-Iranian terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK),” reported The Age in 2003.

According to senior investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, and others, US intelligence has been training and funding the MEK to foment unrest inside Iran for years...

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