SANAA, Yemen The Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda said Wednesday that a U.S. drone strike had killed a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner who rose to become the group's No. 2 figure.
The announcement, posted on militant websites, gave no date for the death of Saudi-born Saeed al-Shihri.
In January, Yemen's official SABA news agency had reported that al-Shihri died of wounds from a drone strike three months earlier.
In the video posted Wednesday, al-Shihri was eulogized by the senior religious figure from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Ibrahim al-Rubaish.
"I present my condolences to all the Mujahideen on the martyrdom of Saeed al-Shihri who was killed in a U.S. drone attack," said al-Rubaish, who also spent time at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo before being freed.
Al-Shihri, also known as Abu Sufyan al-Azdi, fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in Guantanamo. He was returned to Saudi Arabia in late 2007 and later fled to Yemen to join the al Qaeda branch there.
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