Al-Qaeda ‘in crisis’ after No. 2 killed in Tehran

LONDON/RIYADH: Al-Qaeda’s leadership is in crisis, analysts told Arab News on Saturday, after it emerged that the terrorist group’s second-in-command had been shot dead in Iran.

News of the death of Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, also known as Abu Muhammad Al-Masri, is a blow to Al-Qaeda, the terror network that orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the US, and comes amid rumors in the Middle East about the fate of the group’s leader, Ayman Al-Zawahiri.