July 31, 2008
Al Qaeda says Bagram escapee killed in U.S. bombing( Abu Abdallah al-Shami)
DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda field commander who escaped from a U.S. prison in Afghanistan in 2005 was killed in a recent U.S. bombing, an al Qaeda leader said in a statement posted on the Internet on Thursday.No date given as to when it happened....may he have a blazing hot time in hell."Al Qaeda announces the martyrdom of one of the heroes and field leaders who performed well in facing the modern crusade, our brother Abu Abdallah al-Shami," Mustafa Abu al-Yazid said in the statement dated July 14 on an Islamist website.
Abu al-Yazid did not say when the U.S. bombing took place or name the region in which Shami, an alias, was killed.
The militant, whose alias indicates that he was born in a Levant country along the eastern Mediterranean, was one of four who escaped from the U.S. military prison in Bagram in 2005. Among the group was Abu Yahya al-Libi, a key al Qaeda figure.
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