Tehran, Iran. Al-Qaeda leader Abu Mohammed al-Masri is killed, along with his daughter, by two men on a motorcycle. His daughter, Miriam, is the widow of Osama bin Laden’s son, Hamza. The initial report in the Iranian official press named a Lebanese history professor and his daughter, but a few days later these identities were removed. Several months later, revelations from an anonymous source in the United Arab Emirates and then from Israeli and American intelligence agencies revealed the identity of the al-Qaeda leader, who was one of the organizers of the attacks on the US embassy in Kenya. His daughter, Miriam, had married Osama bin Laden’s son as a teenager in 2005, and some footage of the event was found by the Americans in bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabbad, Pakistan, and released by the CIA in 2017.
