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    Iran allegedly aborts anti-U.S. plot

    BigNewsNetwork.com
    Thursday 19th August, 2004

    Iran reportedly aborted a plot by al-Qaida and radical Iranian
    Revolutionary Guards to assassinate U.S. officers in central Asian
    countries neighboring Iran.

    The Saudi daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat Thursday quoted sources close to
    Iranian intelligence, which is controlled by reformists, as saying that
    they discovered the plot after intercepting messages between al-Qaida
    operatives and Iranian Revolutionary Guards, along with the so-called
    Quds Brigade, in Iran.

    Iranian intelligence also monitored telephone conversations between a
    senior official in the office of Iranian spiritual guide Ayatollah Ali
    Khamenei and a senior operative of al-Qaida in Iran.

    It said their findings indicated that there is a sensational plot in
    which members of Quds Brigade, al-Qaida and the Revolutionary Guards
    were involved to assassinate U.S. military personnel and intelligence
    officers operating in central Asia, notably in Azerbaijan, Armenia and
    Turkmenistan, which are Iran's neighbors.

    The paper said the plot was aimed at drawing Iran into direct
    confrontation with the United States as well as countries located on its
    northern border.

    http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=86d991ce80ba57ee
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