FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (R) and Ambassador to Kenya Prudence Bushne (L) address Kenyan's at the bomb-damaged area near the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi August 18, 1998. JN/GB/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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, 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 Aug. 7, the Times reported on Friday.
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