Sunday, January 25, 2004
Chicago Tribune 2004 01 23:[Iranian intelligence agent Hamid Reza] Zakeri says the supreme Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the country's former president, Hashemi Rafsanjani, both were fully informed well before Sept. 11, 2001, that a brutal attack on America was planned.
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"Four months and five days before 9/11," Zakeri says, one of bin Laden's sons, Saad bin Laden, turned up in the Iranian capital, met with Khamenei and Rafsanjani and gave them the details of the Sept. 11 plot.
His account, he says, can be corroborated by the Iranian security agent who served as Saad bin Laden's bodyguard during the visit, and who now is living quietly in Najaf, Iraq.
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Dr. Ulrich von Jeinsen, a German lawyer who represents the families of some of those who died on Sept. 11. . . was inclined to believe what Zakeri has to say.
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Zakeri said that in July 2001 . . . he visited Azerbaijan. . . and gave CIA personnel at the U.S. Embassy there a letter addressed to President Bush that warned of a major impending attack on U.S. soil. Zakeri, who says he also faxed a copy of the letter to the White House, claims it described a scale model of the World Trade Center and other high-rise buildings that suddenly and mysteriously had appeared in a hallway of the Iranian intelligence service's headquarters.
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Zakeri claims a relationship with the CIA that dates from a meeting in Canada in 1992, after which he returned to Iran as an agent of the CIA . . .
The relationship, Zakeri said, culminated with an acrimonious meeting with the CIA and other American intelligence services in The Hague four months ago. "I told them the same story," Zakeri says. "They want me to say a different story. TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: Add Iran to the list of countries with intelligence services who knew what Al CIAda was planning for 9/11: Israel, Russia, Egypt, Germany, France, Britain . . .
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