http://www.afgha.com/?af=article&sid=36406TEHRAN - Iran Thursday denied that it had ever held al-Qaeda leader Osama's bin Laden's son or two principal lieutenants after an Arabic daily charged that the trio were being allowed to slip out of the country.
A foreign ministry official told the Iranian Student News Agency that longstanding reports that Saad bin Laden and al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri and number three Saif al-Adel had been detained in Iran were untrue.
He strongly denied Wednesday's report by the London-based Asharq al-Aswat daily that Zawahiri might already have slipped across the border into Afghanistan or Pakistan and that Adel and bin Laden junior were trying to follow him.
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