Israeli assassins reportedly gunned down al Qaeda’s second-in-command on the streets of Tehran months ago.

Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, one of the masterminds behind the deadly 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa who went under the pseudonym Abu Muhammad al Masri, was shot and killed on Aug. 7, which coincided with the anniversary of the bombings, by Israeli agents on motorcycles who were acting at the behest of the United States, according to the New York Times.