Iran Wants pro-Iranian as Bin Laden Successor

November 15, 2006

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Iran is pushing for a pro-Iranian activist within al-Qaeda to take over from Osama Bin Laden, a media report claimed on Tuesday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is trying to persuade the al-Qaeda leadership to choose Saif al-Adel as its official number three, after Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, The Daily Telegraph said today quoting western intelligence officials.

Al-Adel was formerly Bin Laden’s head of security, and was named on the FBI’s 22 most wanted list after September 11 for his alleged involvement in terror attacks against US targets in Somalia and Africa in the 1990s.

The Iranians are trying to take advantage of Bin Laden’s declining health to promote senior officials who are known to be friendly to Tehran, the report claimed.

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