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(LWJ) — A German citizen who fought with the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was killed by US troops during a recent clash in Afghanistan, according to the terror group’s spokesman.

“Abdullah from Essen,” a German citizen from Afghanistan who was known as Miqdad, was killed while fighting US forces in northern Afghanistan, according to a martyrdom statement. Yassin Chouka, a spokesman for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who is better known as Abu Ibrahim al Almani (“the German”), made the statement in a videotape released on jihadist websites. The statement is titled “The Afghan Lightning” and was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.

Miqdad, who was nicknamed “Afghan Lightning,” first arrived in Pakistan’s tribal area of Waziristan in November 2010. “In 2011, he concluded his training in a training camp, and traveled shortly after that to northern Afghanistan,” the IMU said. Miqdad was killed during a clash with US troops on March 23, 2011 in Baghlan province.

“Brother Miqdad recently came to Waziristan and he said to us: please send me right away to Kunduz, because I really want to kill Germans,” Chouka said, according to the SITE translation. “He recently lived in Germany and saw the criminal acts of the Germans, but when Allah the Almighty put him on the path and allowed him to carry a weapon, he didn’t hesitate and he hurried and went into action in the Cause of Allah.”