Terrorism: al-Qaeda number 2 secretly assassinated in Iran

On August 7, two Israeli motorcycle agents, allegedly recruited by the United States, assassinated Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, number 2 of Al-Qaeda, in Iran. This is what the New York Times, relying on information from US intelligence.

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was on the US Federal Police’s (FBI) most wanted list of terrorists and was indicted in the US for attacks on US embassies in East Africa in 1998. He was “killed by bullet in the streets of Tehran by two murderers on motorcycles, “confirmed American intelligence officials to the New York daily.

The murderers, who shot at the victim’s car, also shot dead his daughter, Miriam, widow of one of the sons of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda in the 1990s. The assassination took place August 7, the anniversary of the attacks against the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, in which Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was involved according to American justice.

$ 10 million reward

The US federal police offered $ 10 million 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 documents of 2008 of the American center of counterterrorism, quoted speak 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. The two bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania left 224 dead and more than 5,000 injured in 1998.