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become a confrontation.”
Asked what the administration’s
options would be in that case, an
other senior official conceded that
trying to seize al Adel and others
would be extremely difficult, but
added: “The military option is
never off the table.”
The Iranian government has
expelled more than 500 lower
ranking al-Qaida members and
denies harboring any of the
group’s senior leaders. But the
U.S. officials, who all spoke on
the condition of anonymity, said
there was evidence that members
of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
were sheltering al Adel, the
younger bin Laden, other al-Qai
da leaders and some other mem
bers of bin Laden’s family.
The officials emphasized that
no hard evidence has been found
that al-Qaida fugitives in Iran had
a hand in the Saudi bombings.
But the suspicions have given a
new urgency to United Nations
sponsored talks between White
House aide Zalmay Khalilzad and
Iranian officials in Geneva.
The suspicions of a link be
tween Iran and the bombings are
focused largely on al Adel, who
some U.S. officials think is now
the head of al-Qaida operations in
the Persian Gulf.
Some officials think that Khaled
Jehani, the leader of the al-Qaida
cell in Saudi Arabia that is sus
pected of carrying out the attacks,
began reporting to al Adel after
former gulf operations chief Abdul
Rahim al Nashiri was captured
last November. Nashiri is now in
U.S. custody. Other officials, how
ever, think Jehani may have taken
over from Nashiri and also is run
rung the Saudi Arabian cell, which
Saudi intelligence officials think
may have had more than 100
members, on his own.
Saudi intelligence officials said
suspected al-Qaida members who
were arrested before the bomb
ings have told interrogators that
Jehani’s group was planning to ini
tiate a major operation in Saudi
Arabia during the U.S. invasion of
Iraq, but that the invasion came
sooner than they expected.
Several times recently, one U.S.
official said, Osama bin Laden ex
pressed frustration to his lieu
tenants in Iran that al-Qaida had
struck no significant blows as the
United States invaded Muslim
Iraq. “The fact that his frustration
was directed toward those in Iran
is interesting,” one official said.
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