We have just learned, on November 13, of the killing in Iran on August 7 of Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 man, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who was assassinated by Israeli agents at the request, according to all reports, of the American government. The story is here: “Israeli agents killed al-Qaeda’s No. 2 on Iran street, at behest of US: NY Times,” Times of Israel, November 14, 2020:
Israeli operatives gunned down 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.
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who used the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was accused of being one of the chief planners of devastating attacks on two US embassies in Africa in 1998.
He was killed on August 7, the anniversary of the attacks, the report said, citing unnamed intelligence officials.
Some people think that Muslims chose 9/11 for their attack because it was on 9/11/1683 that a pan-Muslim army began in earnest to assault Vienna, and was beaten back. If August 7 was chosen by the Israelis as the fatidic date on which to kill al-Masri, it was a fitting touch.
The attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 and injured hundreds more.
A former Israeli intelligence official told the newspaper [the New York Times] that Al-Masri is also accused of ordering the 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya which killed 13 and injured 80.
Al-Masri was driving his sedan close to his home when two Israeli agents on a motorcycle pulled up alongside his vehicle 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….
Following the shooting, Iranian media identified the victims as a history professor from Lebanon named Habib Daoud and his daughter, Maryam, the New York Times report said. A Lebanese news outlet and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said the victim was a member of the Hezbollah terrorist group, which is backed by Iran.
Daoud and Maryam did not actually exist, however. One intelligence official, and a former head of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad group, said the persona was an alias Iran provided to al-Masri.
It’s unclear why Iran would harbor al-Masri. Iran is a Shiite state, and has fought with al-Qaeda, a Sunni jihadist organization.
There is nothing strange about Iran giving refuge to members of Al-Qaeda. They’ve done it for almost two decades.. Sectarian differences can sometimes be overlooked in the shared hatred of the Infidels, and especially, of the world’s worst Infidels – the Great Satan of America and the Little Satan of Israel.
Intelligence officials told the Times that al-Masri was in Iranian “custody” since 2003 and lived in Tehran since at least 2015. While in Tehran, he was protected by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps but allowed to move freely and travel abroad….
Iran has denied harboring al-Qaeda members and did not respond to a New York Times request for comment on the article….
Despite its denial, Iran is known to have been harboring Al-Qaeda members for many years. There are those who always scoff at this notion, claiming superciliously that “it’s not possible for Shi’a Iran give refuge to the uber-Sunnis of Al-Qaeda.” As noted above, it’s not only possible, but perfectly understandable. Shared hatred of the Infidels has proven far stronger than hatred of one another. The al-Qaeda members in the country have figured that they would be safe in Iran, a large country with a government eager to hide them. And those Al-Qaeda members have noticed that the Americans have carefully refrained from targeting anyone inside Iran; they assassinated the Al-Quds leader Qasem Soleimani, remember, only when he arrived at Baghdad Airport from Iran. The Israelis, of necessity, play by different rules.
Around the time of al-Masri’s killing, a series of mysterious explosions rocked Iran, hitting several sensitive sites, including the Natanz nuclear facility, a power station, a pipeline, and the Parchin military complex outside Tehran.
All of these explosions have been attributed to Israeli agents, both cyberwarriors sitting in Israel, and others who are believed to have destroyed the advanced centrifuge plant at Natanz, through on-site sabotage. It may be that some of these explosions really were accidents. Israel, of course, has made no comment.
Iran said in September it had identified those responsible for the sabotage at the Natanz facility, but did not provide further details. Foreign media reports have attributed the explosion, which they said badly damaged an advanced centrifuge development and assembly plant, to Israel or the US.
Iran did not tell the world which country was responsible for the Natanz sabotage for an obvious reason. Had it named Israel, Iran’s government would then have felt the overwhelming popular pressure to respond, and at this point Tehran is not so foolish as to take on the Israelis directly. For now, it still prefers to build up its proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon which, at some point, will no doubt be called upon by Iran to attack Israeli targets.
Israeli agents had in past years assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists using shooters on motorcycles, similar to al-Masri’s killing, according to foreign reports.
Al-Masri was from Egypt and around 58-years-old. He fought the Soviets in Afghanistan with jihadist groups, was then barred from returning to Egypt, and joined Bin Laden. He worked for al-Qaeda in Sudan and Somalia, where he trained militants to use weaponry they then used to shoot down US helicopters in Mogadishu in 1993 in the so-called Black Hawk Down incident. Nineteen American soldiers were killed in the battle with Somali militiamen….
In 2002, he orchestrated an attack in Kenya that killed 13 people — 10 Kenyans and three Israelis — when a car bomb went off at Mombasa’s Paradise Hotel on November 28, 2002, shortly after a large group of Israeli tourists checked into the beachfront resort.
At around the same time, a surface to-air missile targeted but missed an Arkia plane carrying 271 people as it took off from Mombasa airport.
In short, Abdullah Al-Masri was a very bad guy, and the Americans were glad to have the Israelis willing and able to take him out. It’s one more reminder of Israel’s value as a military ally to the U.S.
Israel had its own reasons, too, for killing Al-Masri. At the time of his death, according to those who had been watching him, he was planning attacks specifically on Jews and Israelis.
The Israelis have sometimes invoked a stirring bit of advice from the Talmud: “If someone is coming to kill you, rise against him and kill him first.” That is what the two intrepid Israelis on that motorcycle, in the middle of Tehran, did in dispatching Abu Muhammad al-Masri. He will not be missed.
infidel says
The only lion among nations….that punches above its fight and weight against these mad animals. If not for Israel and its raw courage against all odds, I wonder whether there is even a hope for human civilization against Global jehaad which, IMHO, is morphing into a bigger threat than the combined forces of Global Warming and Climate Change. And all this when the leaders of other Khafir nations repeatedly abandon their populace to these mad beasts of Jehaad.
gravenimage says
+1
Grace says
Where are the heroes and leaders; the dedicated, the intelligent? They are there every day fighting the eternal fight against tierany. The complicit try to ignore them and allow no space for their record. Thank God for Jihad Watch or we would never know about the evil swirling around us.We seem to think an Ocean protects America! It only prolongs it for a little while.
john smith says
Spot on infidel.
Thomas Faddis says
Thank goodness they killed this violent islamic jihad terrorist!
mortimer says
Iran is obviously training the Pally terrorists. Shi’ites working with Sunnite Muslims to destroy the West and its democratic values.
Buraq says
I am in awe of the Israelis! They are the coolest dudes on the planet. All this chest-thumping Allahu-akbarring nonsense means absolutely zero when bullets are shredding your windscreen!
Macron, take note! Merkel, take note! Boris, take note. Biden …….. ehhh, what?! You sympathise with the guy? Sheeesh …… no wonder we’re in trouble.
Henry Mansfield says
I let the Jihad Watch regulars know about this on an appropriate thread as soon as I saw the news the other day.
There can be no safe place anywhere on the globe for those that plot against civilians going about their lives.
I served with veterans of the Black Hawk Down treachery, even worse than the memory of firefights was seeing the effect of daily life in a backward Muslim country for it’s civilian population.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Henry.
Dave Johnson says
Allah is Satan and his followers are ghouls. Period. No place in free Western society for these abominations.
eduardo odraude says
A lot of Muhammad’s “followers” don’t actually know much about him. When they get educated about their own source texts, many Muslims leave Islam, secretly or openly. Many Muslims are not ghouls, but people who have been lied to by imams presenting a whitewashed version of Muhammad and Islam. The Hadith were only translated into English in the 1990s, I believe. That, plus the internet, makes it possible for the first time in 1400 years for the true character of Islamic doctrine to be publicized relentlessly around the globe. That is one reason David Wood speaks of a rising tidal wave of Islamic apostasy. Comments on his videos show many Muslims telling David they left Islam after watching David’s amusing and devastating criticisms of Islamic source texts.
St. Croix says
A recent poll found that 60% of Iranians no longer claim Islam as their religion. Many have become atheists, agnostics, Christians or gone back to their historic religion of Zoroastrianism. The reason? “The Ayatollahs have shown us the true face of Islam” said one Iranian Christian. The regime in Iran is made up of an Islamic elite who don’t want to lose their power and their perks; most of them also hold to an apocalyptic version of Islam, and they feel they must work to usher in the kingdom of Islam on the earth. The idea of reasoning with them via a nuclear deal is ludicrous in the extreme!
revereridesagain says
It’s called learning the hard way. May we not have to do the same.
gravenimage says
I just wish Muslims were leaving Islam fast enough…
Infidel says
Cool! Now when will they take down Ayman al Zawahiri? And the Qardashian leader of ISIS, which is creating more branches in the Indian subcontinent?
eduardo odraude says
Imagine the planning and training that must have gone into the operation. Israelis on motorcycles in Tehran?
St. Croix says
Coordinated with simultaneous explosions at multiple sites, if I read the article correctly!
gravenimage says
+1
Bad Penguin says
Used pepper spray on myself and still couldnt work up a tear for the death of these two.
Keith O says
I wonder how long it will take for sleazy Joe to offer a groveling apology and compensation for this?
Can’t go around killing off these poor misunderstood, peaceful Mudslimes.
SJ says
I wish Homeland hadn’t ended with Season 8. Wish to see another thrilling TV series from Gideon Raff, maybe one that also includes this operation.
tim gallagher says
Well done. It is always good to see these satanically evil pieces of islamic crap sent off to the lowest depths of hell where they belong. From this infidel, who is so happy not to be a part of barbaric Islam, I can only say, good riddance, and the sudden departure of this scumbag makes this world a little bit safer.
gravenimage says
Israeli Agents on a Motorcycle Gun Down Al-Qaeda #2 In Tehran
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*Good*. How brave do you have to be to go into Tehran to take out one of these Jihadists? I am in awe of Israel.
Andrew says
If Biden gets the gig, gawd forbid, and renews the awful Iran deal, then I trust the Israeli Government to take care of the situation as they have done so in the past.
The Israeli,s dont need anybodies approval nor permission to defend their homeland, unlike the EU who are bowing down to people who enter the Continent illegally, openly tell us how much they hate us, and have been hating the Jewish people a lot longer than the Nazis ever did.
What could possibly go wrong…
revereridesagain says
+1
Tristan says
Knowing the courage of the Israeli soldiers I’m intensely motivated to join their army if there is a chance. I wonder why I had not been born as an Israeli.
Ron says
BRAVO, Israel! Another butchering swine bites the dust!
Martin Bernard Vink says
Did the agents get away?
Jim says
+2
James Lincoln says
Great work by these Israeli operatives!
Hope they are back home, safe and sound….