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...that year, Iranian officials had given their U.S. counterparts photocopies of the passports of more than 200 Arabs - including Saad bin Laden - who had been turned away at the Afghan border. The Iranians worried that many of them would enter the country illegally through the porous border. Hillary Mann Leverett, then an official with the National Security Council and one of a handful of Americans involved in negotiations with Tehran, says the Iranians were concerned that if Saad snuck in, they would not be able to repatriate him to his native Saudi Arabia, because authorities in Riyadh were unwilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Spurned Iran Offers to Turn Over bin Laden's Son | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...wanted was a multilateral mechanism, initiated by the U.S., to get the Arab intruders off their hands. Such a mechanism would have given U.S. interrogators access to the al-Qaeda operatives (whom the Iranians would presumably have detained if they once again tried to cross the border). But, says Leverett, the Bush Administration insisted that the Iranians deport the Arabs without any preconditions. By May, negotiations between the two countries broke down, and the chance was lost. Shortly thereafter, Saad bin Laden succeeded in crossing the border. Details of what happened next are murky, but he didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Spurned Iran Offers to Turn Over bin Laden's Son | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

Hyung W. Kim ’11, a Crimson associate magazine editor, is a government concentrator in Leverett House...

Author: By Hyung W. Kim | Title: Thanks, But No Thanks | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

Anita J. Joseph ’12 is a Crimson editorial writer in Leverett House...

Author: By Anita J Joseph | Title: Stay the Course in Korea | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

That charge cannot be entirely dismissed as a conspiracy theory, for allegations of a U.S. covert program to destabilize Iran are hardly confined to paranoid mullahs. Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, former National Security Council officials in the Bush Administration, wrote in May that "the Obama Administration has done nothing to cancel or repudiate an ostensibly covert but well-publicized program, begun in President George W. Bush's second term, to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to destabilize the Islamic Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Campaign Against Foreign Plots | 7/15/2009 | See Source »

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