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Source: The Washington Post<\/a>
A senior al-Qaeda figure with close ties to the terrorist group\u2019s current leader has left Iran, where he had lived for years after fleeing American forces in Afghanistan in 2001, according to former and current U.S. intelligence officials.<\/p>\n

Thirwat Shihata is the latest suspected terrorist to leave Iran, raising questions about the country\u2019s motives for allowing or forcing the departure of a string of al-Qaeda members that it had sheltered over the past decade.<\/p>\n

U.S. officials said that Shihata, a 53-year-old Egyptian, was the deputy of Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda\u2019s current leader, when he ran Egyptian Islamic Jihad before it formally joined forces with Osama bin Laden in 1998.<\/p>\n

\u201cShihata is among the few remaining members of al-Qaeda\u2019s old guard,\u201d said a U.S. counterterrorism official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to talk publicly about the movements of the al-Qaeda figures. \u201cHis ties to Zawahiri extend back decades, as both men cut their teeth in the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. .\u2009.\u2009. Shihata has kept a low profile in recent years, but there\u2019s no question that he\u2019s one of the more seasoned terrorists at large today.\u201d<\/p>\n

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