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Former Guantanamo detainee carried out suicide attack
A former Guantanamo Bay detainee is believed to have carried out a suicide attack in northern Iraq, the US military said on Wednesday.
- Agencies
- Published: 10:02 May 8, 2008
San Juan: A former Guantanamo Bay detainee is believed to have carried out a suicide attack in northern Iraq, the US military said on Wednesday.
The US Central Command said Abdullah Al Ajmi, a Kuwaiti released from Guantanamo Bay in 2005, was involved in an attack in Mosul on 29 April that killed at least seven people and wounded 28 others.
Three people including Al Ajmi blew up two vehicles packed with bombs stationed near Iraqi security forces.
This is the first time that a former detainee has carried out a suicide attack, the Pentagon has said.
Al Ajmi was acquitted of terrorism charges by a Kuwaiti court in 2006 after he was released from the Cuban detention centre and handed over to Kuwaiti authorities in 2005.
A lawyer who represented Kuwaiti prisoners at Guantanamo, including Al Ajmi, said incarceration at Guantanamo may have turned him into a terrorist.
But the US military says he was already an enemy combatant when he was brought to Guantanamo in 2002 after being captured in Afghanistan.
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