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● 이란과 알카이다(Al-Qaida)가 接觸(접촉)



調査委(조사위)가 새로운 證據提示(증거제시) 라고 美誌(미지)



共同通信(교도통신) 2004年7月17日 18:36



[뉴욕 17日 共同] 美誌(미지) 타임(Time)[電子版(전자판), Internet Edition]은 7月16日, 美 中樞同時(중추동시) 테러[2001年9月]를 檢證(검증)하고 있는 超黨派(초당파)의 獨立調査委員會(독립조사위원회)가 곧 發表(발표)할 最終報告書(최종보고서)에서, 이란이 國際(국제) 테러 組織(조직) 알카이다(Al-Qaida, Al-Qaeda)와 接觸(접촉)하고 있었던 것을 나타내는 새로운 證據(증거)를 밝히고 있다고 報道(보도)했다. 美 政府高官(정부고관)의 이야기로서 傳(전)했다.



美國은 지금까지, 이란이 알카이다의 멤버(member)를 숨겨두고 있다 등 이라고 非難(비난)하며 「테러 支援(지원)의 停止(정지)」를 要求(요구)해 왔지만, 公式文書(공식문서)로 兩者(양자)의 接觸을 指摘(지적)하는 것은 처음.



다만, 報告書(보고서)는, 이란이 同時(동시) 테러 計劃(계획)을 事前(사전)에 察知(찰지)[살펴서 앎]하고 있었다 라는 證據는 나타내고 있지 않다고 한다.



報告書는, 同時 테러의 航空機奪取犯(항공기탈취범) 가운데 8－10명이 테러에 앞서 2000年10月부터 다음 2001年2月 사이에 一時的(일시적)으로 이란에 入國(입국)해 있었다고 指摘.



이란 政府當局者(정부당국자)가 이웃나라 아프가니스탄(Afghanistan)으로의 멤버 通過(통과)를 許可(허가)해, 패스포트(passport)에 出國印(출국인)을 찍지 않도록 國境警備隊(국경경비대)에게 特別(특별)히 指示(지시)하고 있었던 케이스(case)도 있었다고 라고 하고 있다.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

http://news.goo.ne.jp/news/kyodo/kokusai/20040717/20040717a3500.html







● [TIME]



9/11 Commission Finds Ties Between al-Qaeda and Iran



Senior U.S. officials have told TIME that the 9/11

Commission`s report will cite evidence suggesting that the

9/11 hijackers had previously passed through Iran



By ADAM ZAGORIN AND JOE KLEIN



Friday, Jul. 16, 2004



Next week`s much anticipated final report by a bipartisan

commission on the origins of the 9/11 attacks will contain

new evidence of contacts between al-Qaeda and Iran -just

weeks after the Administration has come under fire for

overstating its claims of contacts between al-Qaeda and

Saddam Hussein`s Iraq.



A senior U.S. official told TIME that the Commission has

uncovered evidence suggesting that between eight and ten of

the 14 "muscle" hijackers - that is, those involved in

gaining control of the four 9/11 aircraft and subduing the

crew and passengers - passed through Iran in the period from

October 2000 to February 2001.



Sources also tell TIME that Commission investigators found

that Iran had a history of allowing al-Qaeda members to

enter and exit Iran across the Afghan border.



This practice dated back to October 2000, with Iranian

officials issuing specific instructions to their border

guards - in some cases not to put stamps in the passports of

al-Qaeda personnel - and otherwise not harass them and to

facilitate their travel across the frontier.



The report does not, however, offer evidence that Iran was

aware of the plans for the 9/11 attacks.



The senior official also told TIME that the report will note

that Iranian officials approached the al-Qaeda leadership

after the bombing of the USS Cole and proposed a

collaborative relationship in future attacks on the U.S.,

but the offer was turned down by bin Laden because he did

not want to alienate his supporters in Saudi Arabia.



The Iran-al Qaeda contacts were discovered and presented to

the Commissioners near the end of the bipartisan panel`s

more than year-long investigation into the sources and

origins of the 9/11 attacks.



Much of the new information about Iran came from al-Qaeda

detainees interrogated by the U.S. government, including

captured Yemeni al-Qaeda operative Waleed Mohammed bin

Attash, who organized the October 2000 attack on the USS

Cole, and from as many as 100 separate electronic

intelligence intercepts culled by analysts at the NSA.



The findings were sent to the White House for review only

this week. But Commission members have been hinting for

weeks that their report would have some Iran surprises.



As the 9/11 Commission`s chairman, Thomas Kean, said in

June, "We believe.... that there were a lot more active

contacts, frankly, with Iran and with Pakistan than there

were with Iraq."



These findings follow a Commission staff report, released in

June, which suggested that al-Qaeda may have collaborated

with Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors in the 1996 bombing

of the Khobar Towers, a key American military barracks in

Saudi Arabia. Previously, the attack had been attributed

only to Hezbollah, with Iranian support.



A U.S. indictment of bin Laden filed in 1998 for the bombing

of U.S. embassies in Africa said al-Qaeda "forged

alliances.... with the government of Iran and its associated

terrorist group Hezbollah for the purpose of working

together against their perceived common enemies in the West,

particularly the United States." But the Commission comes to

no firm conclusion on al-Qaeda`s involvement in the Khobar

disaster.



Since 9/11 the U.S. has held direct talks with Iran - and

through intermediaries including Britain, Switzerland and

Saudi Arabia - concerning the fate of scores of al-Qaeda

that Iran has acknowleded are in the country, including an

unspecified number of senior leaders, whom one senior U.S.

official called al-Qaeda`s "management council".



The U.S. as well as the Saudis have unsuccessfully sought

the repatriation of this group, which is widely thought to

include Saad bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden, as well

of other key al-Qaeda figures.



http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,664967,00.html









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