Al-Qaeda No. 2 Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who The New York Times reported was shot dead in Tehran by Israeli agents at the behest of the US, was planning attacks on Jewish and Israeli targets when he was killed, according to Channel 12 news.
Western intelligence sources quoted by the network says Abdullah, who used the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was tracked for over a year and that the operation was pulled off without a hitch.
“Abu Muhammad al-Masri also began planning attacks against Israelis and Jews in the world,” the sources say, explaining that’s why Israel and the US had a shared interest in killing him.
The report says the gunman were Mossad agents.
A Channel 13 report, by contrast, says the gunmen were likely “foreign agents activated by Israel.”
Abdullah was accused of being a top planner of the major attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 224 people. An Israeli intelligence officer told The New York Times that he was also alleged to have orchestrated the 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya which killed 13 — including three Israeli tourists — and injured 80.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah’s FBI wanted poster (FBI)
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