{"id":90441,"date":"2020-11-15T07:49:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=90441"},"modified":"2020-11-15T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T12:49:15","slug":"auto-draft-318","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/11\/15\/auto-draft-318\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Israelis Killed al-Qaida\u2019s No. 2 Leader in Iran in August"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida\u2019s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, The New York Times<\/em> reported Friday, citing intelligence officials.<\/p>\n

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in Tehran more than three months ago, the Times <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n

The killing of Masri, who was seen as a likely successor to al-Qaida\u2019s current leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, was kept secret until now, the newspaper said.<\/p>\n

It was unclear what role, if any, the United States had in the August 7 killing of the Egyptian-born militant, the Times <\/em>said. U.S. authorities had been tracking Masri and other al-Qaida operatives in Iran for years, it said.<\/p>\n

A U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, declined to confirm any details in the Times<\/em>\u00a0story or say whether there was any U.S. involvement. The White House National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Masri was killed along with his daughter, the widow of Osama bin Laden\u2019s son, Hamza bin Laden, the Times <\/em>reported.<\/p>\n

Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, who orchestrated the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON – Al-Qaida\u2019s second-in-command, accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran in August by Israeli operatives acting at the behest of the United States, The New York Times reported Friday, citing intelligence officials. Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90444,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90441\/revisions\/90444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}