(CNN) -- Hardly anyone has been rumored dead as often as al Qaeda's No. 2 man in Yemen. Said al-Shihri has emerged from the aftermath of drone strikes in the past to lambast the CIA for trying to kill him. It seems it finally did. A message on jihadi websites announced his death Tuesday. It was purportedly posted by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). It did not say when or where al-Shihri died, just that a U.S. drone took his life sometime after the first week of April. Al-Shihri's career as a terrorist leader has its roots in the U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Hardly anyone has been rumored dead as often as al-Shihri
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He was once a prisoner in Guantanamo
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He was released in 2008 to his native Saudi Arabia
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But he made a break for Yemen, rising to its leadership ranks
He quickly disobeyed the order to join a fellow former @placeholder inmate with AQAP in Yemen, where he climbed to the number two slot in 2009.