Dead Guantanamo prisoner had US military training

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MIAMI, May 31 (Reuters) - The Guantanamo prisoner who died in his cell this week was a Saudi army veteran who trained with U.S. soldiers before going to fight for the Taliban in Afghanistan, military records show.

The man, described by the U.S. military on Thursday as a mid-level al Qaeda operative, apparently committed suicide on Wednesday at the prison camp for foreign terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. snip

U.S. military documents give a slightly different spelling of al Aameri's name, a common occurrence when Arabic names are transliterated into English.

According to records previously released by the U.S. military, al Aameri told his captors he was trained by Americans during the nine years and four months he served in the Saudi army.