Iran mocks al-Qaeda No. 2 killed in Tehran report

Iran on Saturday dismissed a US newspaper report that Al-Qaeda's second-in-command was killed in Tehran by Israeli agents as "made-up information" and denied the presence of any of the Sunni jihadist group's members in the Islamic republic. The New York Times said Abdullah Ahmad Abdullah was secretly shot and killed in Tehran by Israeli operatives on a motorcycle at Washington's behest.

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