Berlin: Iran is providing refuge to around 25 leading members of the al-Qaeda terror group including three of Osama bin Laden's sons, according to a German magazine.
Cicero magazine, quoting a top-ranking Western secret service agent said, Saad Mohammed and Othman bin Laden as well as other Al-Qaeda members were living in and around Tehran under the protection of Iran's Republican Guard.
Saad bin Laden(25) is thought to have played a key financial and logistical role in several al-Qaeda attacks and is on a US most-wanted list.
Osama bin Laden is believed to have more than 20 sons from several wives.
Cicero made national headlines in Germany last month when police raided the magazine's offices and its reporters after a story alleging links between Iran and Al-Qaeda's frontman in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The police were searching for evidence to identify the sources after the magazine quoted classified German documents in that story.
German Interior Minister Otto Schily was forced to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain his orders to carry out the raid.
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