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Al-Qaedas’ second-in-command, indicted in the United States for the 1998 bombings as shown in the photo, was secretly assassinated in Iran in August, The New York Times reported on November 13, 2020.
Al-Qaeda’s second in command, indicted in the United States for the 1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was secretly assassinated in Iran in August, The New York Times reported Friday.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who was on the FBI’s list of most wanted terrorists, was shot and killed in Tehran by two Israeli agents on a motorcycle at the behest of the United States, intelligence officials confirmed to the Times.
The attack, which took place on August 7 on the anniversary of the attacks in Africa, has not been publicly acknowledged by the United States, Iran, Israel or Al-Qaeda.
The top Qaeda leader, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was assassinated along with his daughter, Miriam, the widow of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza bin Laden, the Times said.
US federal authorities had offered a $ 10 million reward for any information leading to his capture.
Abdullah was “the most experienced and capable operational planner not in the custody of the United States or its allies,” according to a highly classified document provided by the US National Counterterrorism Center in 2008, according to the Times.
The bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 left 224 dead and more than 5,000 injured.
Abdullah was indicted by a US federal grand jury that same year for his role.
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