Iran "Frees" Bin Laden's Son to Work With Hezbollah

Dan Darling passes along this link from Reuters. Quoting Die Welt, a German newspaper, Reuters reports:

Iran has freed a son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden from house arrest, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Die Welt said the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released Saad bin Laden on July 28 with the aim of sending him to the Syria-Lebanon border. It linked the reported move to the outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanese-based Hizbollah.

"From the Lebanese border, he has the task of building Islamist terror cells and preparing them to fight together with Hizbollah," Die Welt said, quoting intelligence information.

"Apparently Tehran is counting on recruiting Lebanese refugees in Syria for the fight against Israel, using bin Laden's help," it added in a preview of a report to appear in its Thursday edition. ...


A couple of points:

(1) I don't believe that Iran's "arrest" of senior al Qaeda leaders was real. Tehran was providing safehaven to senior al Qaeda operatives and probably used the "arrest" story as a cover.

(2) It is interesting that according to Die Welt bin Laden's son will be working with Hebollah, no? If true, this is still more evidence that the Sunni-Shiite divide is not nearly as wide as many here in the West imagine.