Published: Aug. 21, 2003

STATEMENT

An Aug. 21 report by the Associated Press stated that Ismail Abu Shanab, the senior Hamas official who was killed by an Israeli missile strike on Thursday, was a graduate of the University of Colorado. The University of Colorado has no record that a person by that name attended the university. It is not known whether he attended under a different name.

For information contact Jeannine Malmsbury of the CU-Boulder Office of News Services at (303) 492-3115.