STATEMENT: Attendance of Ismail Abu Shanab at the University of Colorado

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.