In August , three weeks after the 1998 United States embassy bombings , a wiretapped phone call tipped off the Israeli Mossad that a rendez-vous between Saqr and an Iranian MOIS official was planned in Baku , Azerbaijan . Other sources dismiss the existence of any Iranian officials and limits the telephone call to communication between Ihab and Essam while coordinating a meeting point . Without a bureau in Azerbaijan , they contacted the American CIA , who allowed a Canadian-raised Mossad agent to unofficially tag along as seven or eight CIA officers based in Frankfurt oversaw a local police raid on the Baku hotel room on August 20
1998 United States embassy bombings
1998 United States embassy bombings
Ihab Saqr