Al-Qaeda number 2, indicted in the United States for attacks on American embassies in East Africa in 1998, was secretly assassinated in Iran in August, reported Friday (November 13th). New York Times.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who was on the US Federal Police’s (FBI) most wanted terrorist list, was “Shot dead in the streets of Tehran by two motorcycle assassins”, confirmed US intelligence officials to the New York daily. The murderers, who shot the victim’s car, also shot dead her daughter, Miriam, widow of one of the sons of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the 1990s.
Involved in attacks on American embassies
The assassination, which was allegedly committed by Israeli agents on behalf of the United States, took place on August 7, the anniversary of the attacks on the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 which killed 224 dead and more than 5,000 injured, and in which Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was involved according to American justice. The US federal police offered ten million dollars as a reward for any information leading to the capture of this leader of the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah called himself in combat Abou Mohammed al-Masri. He was, among the terrorists not detained in the United States or one of its allies, “The most experienced and the most able to organize strategic operations”, according to 2008 documents from the American Counterterrorism Center, cited by the New York Times.
Iranian authorities have not officially recognized the death of the terrorist, who had been in the country since 2003, according to the newspaper.
