According to report by The New York Times, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Mahmoud al Masri, was seen as a likely successor toe al Qaida's current leader, Ayman al Zawahiri.

據《紐約時報》報道，阿卜杜拉-艾哈邁德-阿卜杜拉，又名阿布-馬哈茂德-馬斯里，被視為基地組織現任領導人艾曼-扎瓦希裡的可能接班人。

He was also accused of helping to mastermind the 1998 bombings of two U.

他還被指控幫助策劃了1998年的兩起美國爆炸案。

S embassies in Africa.

S國駐非洲大使館。

The Times reported that he was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle in the streets of Tehran on August 7th on that the killing was kept secret until now.

泰晤士報》報道稱，8月7日，他在德黑蘭街頭被兩名騎摩托車的男子槍殺，殺人事件一直保密到現在。

A senior Afghan security source told Reuters in October that must be who has long been on the US FBI's most wanted terrorist list had been killed in Tehran, but Reuters could not corroborate that information.

一名阿富汗高級安全人士10月告訴路透社，一定是誰長期在美國FBI的恐怖分子通緝名單上，在德黑蘭被殺，但路透社無法證實這一消息。

It is unclear what, if any, role the United States had in the killing.

目前還不清楚美國在這起殺人事件中扮演了什麼角色，如果有的話。

On Saturday, Iran denied the report, saying there were no quote al Qaida terrorists on its soil.

週六，伊朗否認了這一報道，稱其境內沒有引用基地組織恐怖分子。