However, the CIA has denied the report. 'I have found no one here familiar with this alleged report or the analytic line it supposedly conveys,' Time magazine, which carried the report, quoted CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano as saying.
'The fact that anonymous sources attribute views to the CIA is not, by itself, reason to believe the agency actually holds those views,' he added.
Image: A frame grab from the Saudi-owned television network MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Centre) shows the terror mastermind sitting between his Egyptian lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri (L) and Suleiman Abu Ghaith, the spokesman of his Al Qaeda network.
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