Skip to content
Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Primary Menu Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

Hindi News, हिंदी समाचार, Samachar, Breaking News, Latest Khabar – Pratirodh

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us
  • Featured

Iran Denies Report Top Al Qaeda Terrorist Killed In Tehran

Nov 14, 2020 | Pratirodh Bureau

FILE PHOTO: Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in Tehran on August 7

Al Qaeda’s 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 on Friday, citing intelligence officials.

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in the streets of Tehran on August 7, the Times reported.

However, Iran on Saturday denied the report, saying there were no al Qaeda “terrorists” on its soil.

The killing of Masri, who was seen as a likely successor to al Qaeda’s current leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was kept secret until now, the newspaper said.

It was unclear what, if any, role the United States had in the killing of the Egyptian-born terrorist, the Times said. U.S. authorities had been tracking Masri and other al Qaeda operatives in Iran for years, it said.

Al Qaeda has not announced his death, Iranian officials have covered it up and no government has publicly claimed responsibility, the Times said.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said in a statement that the United States and Israel sometimes “try to tie Iran to such groups by lying and leaking false information to the media in order to avoid responsibility for the criminal activities of this group and other terrorist groups in the region”.

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “scare-mongering tactic against Iran has become routine,” Khatibzadeh said.

A U.S. official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, declined to confirm any details of the Times’ story or say whether there was any U.S. involvement. The White House National Security Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Masri, one of al Qaeda’s founding leaders, was killed along with his daughter, the widow of former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza bin Laden, the Times reported.

Osama bin Laden orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan in 2011.

Shi’ite Iran and al Qaeda have long been enemies.

Masri had been in Iran’s “custody” since 2003 but had been living freely in an upscale suburb of Tehran since 2015, the Times cited unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying.

U.S. counter-terrorism officials believe Iran, also a U.S. enemy, may have let him live there to conduct operations against U.S. targets, the Times said.

It was not immediately known what, if any, impact Masri’s death has had on al Qaeda’s activities. Even as it has lost senior leaders in the nearly two decades since the attacks on New York and Washington, it has maintained active affiliates from the Middle East to Afghanistan to West Africa.

Tags: Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, al qaeda, New York Times, Pratirodh

Continue Reading

Previous Red Light? Turn Engine Off, Delhi Urges Motorists
Next Govt To Fly In Medical Staff Amid Rising Cases In Delhi

More Stories

  • Featured

Bilkis Case: Cong Asks If PM Approved Of Guj Govt Decision

5 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

India Home To 18 Of 20 Cities With Severe Rise In Air Pollution: Study

6 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Which Diet Will Help Save Our Planet?

22 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Bilkis Case: Cong Asks If PM Approved Of Guj Govt Decision
  • India Home To 18 Of 20 Cities With Severe Rise In Air Pollution: Study
  • Which Diet Will Help Save Our Planet?
  • Bharat Jodo Yatra ‘Badly Needed’ In India: Cong
  • Rushdie, Supporters To Blame For Attack: Iran
  • What Ails Himalayan Wetlands?
  • 11 Life-Term Convicts Released, Bano’s Family Left Surprised
  • Activists Question PM Modi On What’s Done For Women On Ground
  • Afghanistan Marks 1 Year Since Taliban Seizure As Woes Mount
  • Deep Scars To South Asia’s Ecosystems Are A Legacy Of Partition
  • Deforestation In Amazon Hits A Fresh Record
  • ‘Blood On Streets’: Google Execs On Layoffs
  • Climate Change Could Worsen 58% Of Human Infectious Diseases
  • Salman Rushdie On Ventilator, Likely To Lose An Eye: Report
  • Afghan Girls Face Uncertain Future After 1 Year Of No School
  • Laal Singh Chadha: Blowing In The Wind
  • Ukraine ‘Getting Ready For Tragedy’ At Nuclear Power Plant
  • Tikait Warns Of Another Farmer Agitation
  • BJP Finishes Off Its Regional Allies: Pawar
  • Prophet Row: SC Clubs, Transfers All FIRs To Delhi Police

Search

Main Links

  • Home
  • Newswires
  • Politics & Society
  • The New Feudals
  • World View
  • Arts And Aesthetics
  • For The Record
  • About Us

Related Stroy

  • Featured

Bilkis Case: Cong Asks If PM Approved Of Guj Govt Decision

5 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

India Home To 18 Of 20 Cities With Severe Rise In Air Pollution: Study

6 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Which Diet Will Help Save Our Planet?

22 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Bharat Jodo Yatra ‘Badly Needed’ In India: Cong

22 hours ago Pratirodh Bureau
  • Featured

Rushdie, Supporters To Blame For Attack: Iran

1 day ago Pratirodh Bureau

Recent Posts

  • Bilkis Case: Cong Asks If PM Approved Of Guj Govt Decision
  • India Home To 18 Of 20 Cities With Severe Rise In Air Pollution: Study
  • Which Diet Will Help Save Our Planet?
  • Bharat Jodo Yatra ‘Badly Needed’ In India: Cong
  • Rushdie, Supporters To Blame For Attack: Iran
Copyright © All rights reserved. | CoverNews by AF themes.