![This undated handout photo 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. 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 November 13.
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.
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An undated photo from the FBI shows Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Muhammad Al Masri, who was reportedly killed in Iran in August. AFP
An undated photo from the FBI shows Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Muhammad Al Masri, who was reportedly killed in Iran in August. AFP
Iran denies report of senior Al Qaeda leader killed in Tehran
Israeli operatives assassinated Abu Muhammad Al Masri in August, according to intelligence officials quoted by the New York Times
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14 November, 2020