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On behalf of Washington, Israeli agents are said to have fired at the number two of the Al-Qaeda terror network. Israeli commentators see this as a signal for future US President Joe Biden.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah is considered the mastermind of the August 7, 1998 attack on the US embassy in Kenya.
It was already dark in Tehran when an assassination attempt was carried out on August 7 in a more exclusive district north of the capital. Eyewitnesses later reported that two men on a motorcycle fired five shots, four of which hit a white Renault, and then fled. The two occupants of the car, a man and a woman, died at the scene. The victims were two Lebanese citizens. reported the Fars news agency, that belongs to the environment of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. She gave her identity to Habib Dawudi, allegedly a history teacher, and her 27-year-old daughter Miriam.
Reports quickly circulated that the victims were high-ranking members of the Lebanese Hezbollah. It was also fitting that the event had taken place near the home of Iraqi militia chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who was assassinated by the Americans in Baghdad in January along with Iranian General Kassem Soleimani.
Tehran denies the reports
According to the US media, the Iranian information was nothing more than pieces of clouds. The murder victim was none other than Qaeda’s number two Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, the New York Times reported in its Saturday edition. According to Israeli media reports, Washington obtained the information and gave the order. The act itself was committed by two agents of the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad. Abdullah, an Egyptian better known by his code name Abu Mohammed al-Masri, was one of the founding members of the Al Qaeda terror network. He is believed to be the mastermind behind the attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, 1998, which left 224 dead and hundreds injured. His daughter Miriam is the widow of Hamza bin Ladin, the son of Kaida’s founder Usama bin Ladin, who was killed in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area last year.
Tehran denies the information. State Department spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh described it as a “Hollywood scene.” There are no Kaida members present in Iran. The Shiite Islamic Republic is well known to have hosted high-ranking representatives of the Sunni terror group, although the two sides are fighting fiercely on the battlefields of Iraq and Syria. Whether there was direct cooperation is a matter of controversy among experts. Those who know Iran see this as a security for Tehran against possible attacks in their own country. The leadership negotiated a prisoner swap at least twice after Qaeda kidnapped Iranian diplomats. As part of that exchange, several al-Qaeda leaders were released or were released from house arrest five years ago, including al-Masri and Saif al-Adel, who is considered number three in the terrorist network. While Abdullah and al-Adel remained in Tehran, the rest headed to northwestern Syria, where the Americans have killed several Qaeda commanders in recent months.
Israel against a new version of the nuclear deal
Terrorism experts believe that the assassination of al-Masri will exacerbate the fragmentation of Qaeda that has been observed for a long time. Within the Iranian leadership, it is likely fueling mutual mistrust that was fueled by the attack on the Natanz nuclear facility and a series of cyber attacks and explosions.
With the operation, Israel makes it clear that Washington must take its interests into account, the country’s largest newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth wrote in a comment Sunday. Since Biden’s election victory, the Israeli media has speculated about possible surprises while Donald Trump remains in office. Ronen Bergman, who wrote a book on Mossad and is the author of “Yedioth Ahronoth,” called al-Masri’s assassination a “little sideline” in the war between Iran on the one hand and the United States and Israel on the other. The last word has yet to be said, Bergman wrote.
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