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Former Guantanamo prisoner killed in Syria after joining Islamist brigade

By REUTERS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 02:20

A former prisoner at the Guantanamo Bay US naval base died fighting for anti-government rebels in Syria, according to an Islamist opposition group which posted a video of his funeral on YouTube.

Moroccan-born Mohammed al Alami, who was released in 2006, is the first former Guantanamo detainee to die in battle in the Syrian civil war, analysts say.

The video, first reported by The Miami Herald, was posted by Harakat Sham al-Islam, one of the Islamist brigades fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad. It showed the Aug. 5 funeral in which Alami is praised by a rebel leader for enduring "the prison of the Americans in Guantanamo for five years ... where he did not reform or change."

Alami fought in Afghanistan and was captured in Pakistan after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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