Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was a high-ranking Egyptian member of al-Qaeda. He was wanted by the United States for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. On 14 November 2020, The New York Times reported that Abdullah had been killed on 7 August 2020 in Tehran, Iran, allegedly by Israeli agents.
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Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was a high-ranking Egyptian member of al-Qaeda. He was wanted by the United States for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. On 14 November 2020, The New York Times reported that Abdullah had been killed on 7 August 2020 in Tehran, Iran, allegedly by Israeli agents. The report has not been openly confirmed by US or Israeli officials, and has been denied by Iran. One of his daughters, named Maryam, had been married to Hamza bin Laden who had reportedly died in June 2019.
Maryam was also reportedly killed in the attack that killed Abdullah. Iranian news sources at the time of his death claimed the identities of the dead pair to be of a Lebanese academic by the name of Habib Dawood who had ties to Hezbollah, and his daughter. A former Israeli intelligence official accused him of ordering the 2002 Mombasa attacks. In 2003, he moved to south-east Iran where he was later detained and placed under house arrest. In March 2015, he was released by Iran in exchange for the release of an Iranian diplomat being held in Yemen.
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