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    U.S. troops led to Osama bin Laden by his own deputy


    May 5, 2011 - 17:23 AMT
    PanARMENIAN.Net -

    US troops were led to Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by his own
    deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, because of a simmering internal power
    struggle, Al-Watan Saudi newspaper said on May 5.

    The newspaper, quoting an unnamed `regional source,' said the top two
    Al-Qaeda men had differences and that a courier who led US forces to
    bin Laden was working for Zawahiri.

    The courier was a Pakistan national and not a Kuwaiti as the US
    suspected. The man knew he was being followed by the US military but
    disguised the fact.

    `The Egyptian faction of Al-Qaeda is defacto running the organization
    now and since he was taken ill in 2004 they have been trying to take
    full control,' according to the paper.

    It said Zawahiri's faction had persuaded bin Laden to leave tribal
    areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border and take shelter instead in
    Abbottabad near Islamabad where he was finally killed by US commandos.

    With the return of an Egyptian figure in Al-Qaeda, Saif al-Adel, last
    autumn from Iran, the Egyptian faction had hatched a plan to dispose
    of Saudi-born bin Laden, AFP reported.




    From: A. Papazian
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