EXPOSED: Al Qaeda’s Second-In-command, Abdullah Ahmed Abdulla killed In Iran—-One of the most wanted terrorist in the world, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, Abdullah Ahmed Abdulla is dead.
The FBI most wanted Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, was secretly killed in Iran on August 7th by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing intelligence officials.
Masri who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in the streets of Tehran. He was the likely successor to al Qaeda’s current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, until his death which was kept secret until now.
The terrorist group has not announced his death, Iranian officials have covered it up and no government has publicly claimed responsibility.
It was unclear what, if any, role the United States had in the killing of the Egyptian-born militant, the Times said. U.S. authorities had been tracking Masri and other al Qaeda operatives in Iran for years, it said.
Iran on Saturday denied the report, saying there were no al Qaeda “terrorists” on its soil.
A U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, declined to confirm any details of the Times’ story or say whether there was any U.S. involvement. The White House National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Masri, one of al Qaeda’s founding leaders, was killed along with his daughter, the widow of former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza bin Laden, the Times reported.
It was not immediately known what, if any, impact Masri’s death has had on al Qaeda’s activities. Even as it has lost senior leaders in the nearly two decades since the attacks on New York and Washington, it has maintained active affiliates from the Middle East to Afghanistan to West Africa.
