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More information.\u00a0 \u201cIsraeli operatives gunned down al-Qaeda\u2019s second-in-command on a Tehran street in August at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday.\u00a0 Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who used the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was accused of being one of the chief planners of devastating attacks on two US embassies in Africa in 1998.\u00a0He was killed on August 7, the anniversary of the attacks, the report said, citing unnamed intelligence officials. A former Israeli intelligence official told the newspaper that Al-Masri is also accused of ordering the 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya which killed 13 and injured 80. Al-Masri was driving his sedan close to his home when two Israeli agents on a motorcycle pulled up alongside his vehicle and fired five shots from a silenced pistol, killing al-Masri and his daughter, Miriam, who was married to Osama bin Laden\u2019s late son Hamza bin Laden.\u201d And \u201cFollowing the shooting, Iranian media identified the victims as a history professor from Lebanon named Habib Daoud and his daughter, Maryam, the New York Times report said. A Lebanese news outlet and Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards Corps said the victim was a member of the Hezbollah terrorist group, which is backed by Iran. Daoud and Maryam did not actually exist, however. One intelligence official, and a former head of Egypt\u2019s Islamic Jihad group, said the persona was an alias Iran provided to al-Masri.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cIsraeli agents killed al-Qaeda\u2019s No. 2 on Iran street, at behest of US: NY Times,\u201d<\/a> Times of Israel, November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

Like the late night commercial says, \u201cBut wait, there\u2019s more!\u201d\u00a0 \u201cIran Denies That Al Qaeda Leader Was Killed in Tehran,\u201d Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran gets ready for two-week coronavirus closure,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran to prohibit travel across the country without negative PCR test,\u201d<\/a> Trend, November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

What the NYT and Post do not ask is \u201cWhy did Iran harbor the mastermind of the 1998 embassy bombings?\u201d\u00a0 Look again at the headline\u2014think about why it wasn\u2019t \u201cMastermind of 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings Killed While Protected Inside Iran.\u201d\u00a0 Masri was second in command of al-Qaeda.\u00a0 See \u201cIsrael, at behest of U.S., killed al-Qaeda\u2019s deputy in a drive-by attack in Iran,\u201d<\/a> Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cA year after Khamenei\u2019s bloody crackdown on Iranian protesters \u2013 analysis,\u201d<\/a> Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post, \u00a0November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cUkraine says Iran dragging its feet in plane crash investigation,\u201d<\/a> Dhaka Tribune, November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cNational Museum of Iran launches guided virtual tours on early human relics, history,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cIran placed no order to buy Russia\u2019s S-400 missile system: advisor,\u201d<\/a> Tehran Times, November 14, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More information.\u00a0 \u201cIsraeli operatives gunned down al-Qaeda\u2019s second-in-command on a Tehran street in August at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday.\u00a0 Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who used the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was accused of being one of the chief planners of devastating attacks on two US … <\/p>\n

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