Of him, we only knew two images. The first is a face put at a price of 10 million dollars by the American FBI: that of Abu Mohammed Al-Masri, whose real name is Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, in a white shirt and tie. Born in 1963, he was in his early thirties at the time the photo was taken. The second, which opens the video of a wedding ceremony, is more stealthy. The man, in a white abaya and kufi on his head, took a few years. The former close to Osama Bin Laden, now number two in Al-Qaida, poses with his son-in-law, Hamza Bin Laden. Abu Mohammed Al-Masri has just married his daughter, Myriam, to the “favorite son” of the founder of the jihadist network. The sequence was shot in 2007 in Iran.
Abu Mohammed Al-Masri and Miriam, who had since become a widow, were reportedly killed on August 7 in the streets of the Iranian capital by a commando of two men on motorcycles, says the American daily The New York Times, which quotes officials of the American intelligence services. The assassination, which was reportedly carried out by Israeli agents on behalf of the United States, was committed on the anniversary of the attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which left 224 dead and in which was involved the Egyptian cadre of Al-Qaida, according to American justice.
Neither Tehran, Washington, Tel Aviv nor Al-Qaida reacted to the presumed death of Abu Mohammed Al-Masri. Iranian news agency Mehr News claimed that the father and daughter killed that day were Lebanese nationals known as Habib and Mariam. Dawoodi. Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday denied reports from the New York Times and any presence in its territory of Al-Qaida officials. But in a new approach, the ultra-conservative Iranian site Jahan News, close to the former conservative deputy Alireza Zakani, does not deny the presence or the assassination of the jihadist leader.
An American “media operation”
If, for Jahan News, these revelations are “A new stage of the media operation led by the American media to link Iran to Al-Qaida” in order to “Justify more sanctions against Iran”, between the lines, the ultraconservative site delivers a major admission. “No country and intelligence service can be indifferent to the terrorist groups that threaten its security. As far as Al-Qaida is concerned, this group is one of the sources of insecurity in Iran. This is why infiltrating this group is not abnormal from Iran’s point of view. This infiltration aims to contain and prevent the group from carrying out operations against the security of the country ”, can we read.
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