Al-Qaeda says No. 2 in Yemen killed in US drone strike.

Saudi-born Saeed al-Shihri, a former detainee at Guantanamo, killed on unspecified date, according to terrorist website

An American MQ-9 Predator drone (illustrative
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SANAA | Yemen | AP | 17 Jul 2013 ::   The Yemen-based branch of al-Qaeda says a US drone strike has 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-ShihriIn January, Yemen’s official SABA news agency had reported that al-Shihri died of wounds from a drone strike three months earlier.

The monitoring group SITE said Wednesday that al-Shihri was eulogized in the video by a senior official in the terrorist group, known as Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

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.(Courtesy:The Times of Israel)