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Terror Networks

Al-Masri’s daughter, also a target, was tapped for top al-Qaeda role – report

2020-11-16

[IsraelTimes] Daughter of terror group’s no. 2, widow of a bin Laden, said to have been killed due to involvement in operational planning; shooting comes amid rumors about leader al-Zawahiri.

An official in the intelligence community told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named, in a report published Sunday, that the daughter of a senior al-Qaeda leader killed in Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
earlier this year was also a target of the operation.

The United States believed Miriam al-Masri was being groomed for a leadership role in al-Qaeda and intelligence suggested she was involved in operational planning, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

The US and Israel worked together to track and kill senior al-Qaeda operative Abu Mohammed al-Masri in Tehran in a bold intelligence operation.

Four current and former US officials confirmed to the News Agency that Dare Not be Named a Saturday New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
report that Abu Mohammed al-Masri, al-Qaeda’s No. 2, and his daughter were killed by assassins in the Iranian capital in August.

According to two of those officials, the US provided intelligence to the Israelis on where they could find Abu Mohammed al-Masri and the alias he was using at the time, while Israeli agents carried out the killing. The two other officials confirmed al-Masri’s killing but could not provide specific details.

Al-Masri was bumped off in a Tehran alley on August 7, the anniversary of the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. al-Masri was widely believed to have participated in the planning of those attacks and was wanted on terrorism charges by the FBI.

Al-Masri’s death is a blow to al-Qaeda and comes amid rumors in the Middle East about the fate of the group’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri
...Formerly second in command of al-Qaeda, now the head cheese, occasionally described as the real brains of the outfit. Formerly the Mister Big of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Bumped off Abdullah Azzam with a car boom in the course of one of their little disputes. Is thought to have composed bin Laden's fatwa entitled World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders. Currently residing in the North Wazoo area assuming he's not dead like Mullah Omar. He lost major face when he ordered the nascent Islamic State to cease and desist and merge with the orthodox al-Qaeda spring, al-Nusra...
The officials could not confirm those reports but said the US intelligence community was trying to determine their credibility.

Two of the officials — one within the intelligence community and with direct knowledge of the operation and another former CIA officer briefed on the matter — said al-Masri was killed by Kidon, a unit within the Israeli spy organization Mossad allegedly responsible for the liquidation of high-value targets. In Hebrew, Kidon means bayonet or "tip of the spear."

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