Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah (1963-7 August 2020) was an Egyptian member of al-Qaeda who was one of the masterminds of the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was assassinated by Israel's Mossad agency in Tehran in 2020.
Biography[]
Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah was born in 1963 in Egypt to a family of Sunni Muslims, and he was one of the Islamists that fled Egypt during the government's war on jihadists. Abdullah headed to Somalia and Sudan in 1992 and helped Saif al-Adel in training al-Qaeda jihadists, and he helped to train Somalis to resist the United States during Operation Restore Hope from 1992 to 1993 and trained the Mujahideen to fight the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan from 1996 to 1998. In 1998 he helped Mohammed Odeh to acquire a passport so that he could conduct the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, and he was wanted by the US government for these attacks. He later moved to southeastern Iran under the protection of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and he was later put under house arrest. A US interrogation of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith confirmed his location. On 7 August 2020, Israeli agents on a motorcycle assassinated him in a drive-by shooting as he and his daughter drove through the Pasdaran neighborhood of Tehran; the assassination was first reported by The New York Times on 14 November 2020 and was confirmed by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on 12 January 2021.