U.S.: Ex-Guantanamo prisoner carried out Iraq suicide attack

[sabra]

Source: AP

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. military is confirming that a former Guantanamo detainee from Kuwait carried out a recent suicide attack in northern Iraq.

A spokesman for U.S. military's Central Command told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul.

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Scott Rye says authorities don't know the motive for the attack, which was reported last week by Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television. Iraqi security forces were apparently targeted.

The U.S. transferred al-Ajmi to Kuwaiti custody from Guantanamo in 2005. A Kuwaiti court later acquitted him of terrorism charges.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-05-07-guantanamo-attack_N.htm?csp=34

[Lautremont]

1. "Don't know the motive for the attack?"

How about... BEING KEPT IN FUCKING GUANTANAMO?

[Just-plain-Kathy]

2. This will give Bush a reason to keep everyone in Guantanamo locked up forever. ...n/t

[Dogtown]

3. Gitmo is

a martyr-school.

[Winterblues]

4. Absolutely shocking that anyone would do this after their all expense paid

vacation at Guantanamo.. I don't understand why they can't feel our love...

[struggle4progress]

5. The military review boards suck

[ohio2007]

6. Kuwaiti court acquitted him and let him go. Guess they saw him as no threat to Q8T's

[Robbien]

7. Just more propaganda

The military brass has no idea who does what in Iraq, but this propaganda story sure does support their policy of keeping people locked up in our torture chambers until they die.

[ohio2007]

8. What did his US pro bono attorneys have to say about al-Ajmi now?

Tom Wilner, a lawyer who represented Kuwaiti prisoners at Guantanamo, said al-Ajmi had a broken arm during one of their meetings at the base in Cuba and that he alleged he had been injured by guards who interrupted him while he prayed.

Wilner called the alleged suicide attack a "tragedy" that could have been avoided with court hearings for prisoners held at Guananamo


You can take the terra-ist out of the country but you can't take terra out of the terra-ist ?