obtained from the FBI on November 13, 2020 shows Abdullah Ahmed
Abdullah, who was on the FBI’s list of most-wanted terrorists and
has been secretly killed in Iran in August. Handout / FBI /
AFP
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, indicted in the US for the
1998 bombings of its embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was secretly
killed 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 operatives 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 Africa bombings, has not been publicly acknowledged by the US,
Iran, Israel or Al-Qaeda.
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The senior Qaeda leader, who went by the nom de guerre Abu
Muhammad al-Masri, was killed 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 US or allied custody,” 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 people dead and more than 5,000 injured.
Abdullah was indicted by a US federal grand jury later that year
for his role.
AFP
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