A Saudi who was freed from Guantanamo Bay only to become second-in-command of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has been killed.
Said al Shehri died in a US-led drone strike in Yemen, senior AQAP official Ibrahim al Rubaish said in a video statement posted online.
"I present my condolences to all the Mujahideen on the martyrdom of Said al-Shehri who was killed in a US drone attack," said Rubaish.
He did not say when the strike took place.
Shehri was taken to the Cuban detention facility in 2002 after Pakistan handed him to US authorities.
He was returned to Saudi Arabia in late 2007 and later fled to Yemen to join the al Qaeda branch there.
Shehri's death has been announced several times by the Yemeni authorities, most recently on January 24.
Last October, Shehri himself denied a September announcement by Yemen's defence ministry that he had been killed in an army raid, in an audio message posted on extremist internet forums.
An official Yemeni statement in January called him "one of the (al Qaeda) leaders who played a major role in the planning of local, regional and international terrorist acts".
It said he was "the military commander of terrorist elements" during deadly clashes with the army in the southern Abyan province, which Islamist rebels largely controlled for a year before Yemeni forces recaptured it in June 2012.
In April, AQAP released an audio message purported to be a newly-delivered address by him.
AQAP, which has planned attacks on international targets including airliners, has been described by Washington as perhaps al Qaeda's most dangerous and innovative affiliate.
AQAP took advantage of the weakness of Yemen's central government during an uprising in 2011 against now-ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh to seize large swathes of territory across the south.
But after a month-long offensive launched in May last year by Yemeni troops, most militants fled to the more lawless desert regions of the east.
AQAP is led by Nasser al Wuhayshi, who in July 2011 reaffirmed the group's allegiance to Ayman al Zawahiri, head of the worldwide al Qaeda network since the killing in May 2011 of its founder, Osama bin Laden.
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