Top Al Qaeda commander killed for the THIRD time: U.S air strike 'finally'  gets terror boss in Yemen

• Senior Al Qaeda  leader reported dead after air strike
• It is the third  time Said al-Shihri   has been reported killed
• He has been  linked with several attacks, kidnaps and bombings
• Veteran  fighter was released from Guantanamo in 2007

  By Sam Webb

PUBLISHED:09:18 GMT, 23  January 2013| UPDATED:12:09 GMT, 23 January 2013

A senior jihadist believed to be behind a  deadly bombing at the U.S. embassy in Yemen has been reported killed, the third  time his death has been announced.

Said al-Shihri, the second in command of Al  Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was reportedly killed in an airstrike in  Yemen in December, according to a news report by Arabic television network Al  Arabiya.

According to the report, the Saudi-born  militant died after sustaining severe injuries from a joint U.S.-Yemeni  airstrike that targeted his convoy.

The al Arabiya account, based on information  from 'family sources', said al-Shihri went into a coma  and allegedly died  soon after.

It is the third time he has been reported  killed. In 2009 it was announced that he was killed by an American cruise  missile and in September 2012, Yemeni news sites reported he was eliminated by a  U.S. drone strike.

Al-Shihri was detained in Guantanamo Bay for  six years after being captured in fighting in Afghanistan.

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