MEMRI- OBL's Bodyguard-

Interviewer: "Do you think there is any coordination between the [Al-Qaeda] organization and Iran?"

Nasser Al-Bahri: "There is coordination on the basis of joint interests."

Interviewer: "In what way?"

Nasser Al-Bahri: "For example, there is a common enemy - the U.S. - and the Iranians, for your information, know that the [American] strike in inevitable. Therefore, they have to take advantage of all those available on the scene, including the Al-Qaeda organization."

Interviewer: "So the way you see it, the Al-Qaeda organization can cooperate with the Iranians against America?"

Nasser Al-Bahri: "It can cooperate with the Iranians but it won't operate under the Iranians. But there is no problem with regard to cooperation."

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"I would like to emphasize here, on Al-Arabiya TV, that I place Sheikh Osama on the same level as my father, and I love him perhaps even more than my father."

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Interviewer: "Where do you think the Al-Qaeda organization is still active?"

Nasser Al-Bahri: "In Afghanistan."

Interviewer: "That's it?"

Nasser Al-Bahri: "I know that it is active in Afghanistan. What goes on elsewhere - in Iraq, Somalia, or North Africa - is that Islamic groups, and especially those mujahideen who bear arms, have embarked on a plan to unite their efforts. You've begun to hear about the 'Al-Qaeda Organization in North Africa.' What's the story of this organization? These are old groups, some of which may be older than Al-Qaeda itself."

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"Sheikh Osama used to say: 'My children, we can't continue to carry our high-profile and costly operations this way, because every time we hit an exposed target, they will close another target. We must deal them blows in order to draw them into the battlefield.' He has succeeded in doing so. Now the bull has begun to scream [for help] in Afghanistan."

Interviewer: "But don't you think many new battlefronts have been opened in the Arab world?"

Nasser Al-Bahri: "That is due to the stupidity of the bull. When the bull stuck its head into Afghanistan..."

Interviewer: "What bull?"

Nasser Al-Bahri: "The American bull, the stupid American cowboy who has begun to kick everywhere. It attacks in Baghdad, it attacks in Somalia, and it will attack everywhere."...............