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2579d ago / 11:07 PM UTC

Ex-Gitmo Detainee Killed By U.S. In Yemen Airstrike

Yasir al-Silmi, a former Guantanamo detainee, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen last week.

Al Silmi was detained at the U.S.military prison in Cuba from 2002 to 2009.

The same U.S. airstrike killed Mossad al-Adnani, who was the emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in the Yemeni governorate of Abyan, as NBC News reported Friday.