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July 31st, 2008
Posted: 07:05 PM ET
(CNN) — An al Qaeda “military leader” who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan in 2005 was killed in a recent U.S. air strike, according to a statement posted Thursday on radical Islamic Web sites known to carry messages from al Qaeda. The statement, which called Abu Abdallah al-Shami a military leader and hero, did not say when or where he was killed. The statement said al-Shami escaped from the U.S. prison in 2005 with a group of three others, including key al- Qaeda figure Omar al-Faruq. Faruq died in a British airstrike earlier. |
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