726: Al-Qaeda mass-murderer targeted KIA in Tehran: The long arm of the US and Israel. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio @FDD
Image: Iranian military in olden days Al-Qaeda mass-murderer targeted KIA in Tehran: The long arm of the US and Israel. @thomasjoscelyn, @billroggio @FDD Tom Joscelyn, @thomasjoscelyn, Long War Journal and FDD; and Bill Roggio, @billroggio, Long War Journal and FDD; in re: Al Masri targeted killing in Iran. US used Israeli connections. / Al Qaeda’s second-highest leader (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/14/world/middleeast/iran-al-qaeda-leader-killed.html) , accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials have confirmed. New York Times: Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down on the streets of Tehran by two assassins on a motorcycle on Aug. 7, the anniversary of the embassy attacks. He was killed along with his daughter, Miriam, the widow of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza bin Laden. The attack was carried out by Israeli operatives at the behest of the United States, according to four of the officials. It is unclear what role if any was played by the United States, which had been tracking the movements of Mr. al-Masri and other Qaeda operatives in Iran for years. The killing occurred in such a netherworld of geopolitical intrigue and counterterrorism spycraft that Mr. al-Masri’s death had been rumored but never confirmed until now. For reasons that are still obscure, Al Qaeda has not announced the death of one of its top leaders, Iranian officials covered it up, and no country has publicly claimed responsibility for it.