Al-Qaeda’s Abu Muhammad al-Masri Killed in Iran

Israeli agents shot dead Abu Muhammad al-Masri, al-Qaeda’s second-in-command on a Tehran street in August at the behest of the United States, the New York Times reported on Friday.

Two Israeli agents on a motorcycle pulled up alongside Al-Masri when he was driving his vehicle close to his home and fired five shots from a silenced pistol, killing al-Masri and his daughter, Miriam, who was married to Osama bin Laden’s late son Hamza bin Laden.

Muhammad al-Masri, was accused of being one of the chief planners of devastating attacks on two US embassies in Africa in 1998.

A former Israeli intelligence official told the newspaper that Al-Masri is also charhed with ordering the 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya which killed 13 and injured 80.

Al-Masri was one of the earliest members of al-Qaeda and was likely to be the successor of Ayman al-Zawahri in leading the terror organization.