A spokesman for US military's Central Command told The Associated Press today that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul.
US Navy Commander 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 US transferred al-Ajmi to Kuwaiti custody from Guantanamo in 2005. A Kuwaiti court later acquitted him of terrorism charges.
The US uses Guantanamo to mentally, if not physically, destroy the people they imprison there. The only surprise is that something like this hasn't happened sooner.
UPDATE 09/05/2008:
From the SMH:
In portions of the recording translated by the American SITE Intelligence Group, a voice is heard decrying the conditions at Guantanamo as "deplorable" and urging others to fight.
"Whoever can join them and execute a suicide operation, let him do so. By God, it will be a mortal blow. The Americans complain much about it. By God, in Guantanamo, all their talk was about explosives and whether you make explosives. It is as if explosives were hell to them."
The suicide bombing is the first such attack in Iraq linked to a former Guantanamo detainee, although the Defence Intelligence Agency has estimated that as many as three dozen former Guantanamo detainees are confirmed or suspected of having returned to terrorist activities.
Human rights groups and lawyers for Guantanamo detainees have disputed that estimate, saying only a handful of former detainees have left custody and gone on to fight US forces.
How can they say 'returned to terrorist activities' when they clearly had no proof that they were participating in terrorist activities prior to being imprisoned?
Ajmi was held in Guantanamo until late 2005, when he was transferred to the custody of the Kuwaiti Government as part of a diplomatic arrangement. At hearings in Guantanamo he maintained his innocence and said he never fought with the Taliban or meant anyone any harm. In 2006 he was tried in a Kuwaiti court, with a group of other alleged terrorists, and acquitted.
Thomas Wilner, a Washington lawyer who represented Ajmi in seeking a habeas corpus hearing when he was held at Guantanamo Bay, said on Wednesday that Ajmi was young and not well-educated and he appeared deeply affected by his jailing there.
4 comments:
Given the wide trawl for suspects the yanks were always going to pick up the odd actual irregular fanatic. I think about two dozen have been sprung since getting out involved in attacks on US interests.
It still doesn't change the fact Gitmo is a stain on the legal character and freedoms of the US that they were willing to bang up 700 people without legal recourse because of those 700 a handful of them were bad guys.
I wouldn't blame an innocent person who was tortured in that place for thinking "right, I'll give you something to torture me for". The US' actions have turned even people who weren't locked up and tortured against it, so there's no surprise that some of the people whose lives it has irrevocably fucked have decided that they'll carry out some revenge if it's the last thing they ever do. I probably would too.
"US Navy Commander Scott Rye says authorities don't know the motive for the attack"
us armed forces spokespuppets have a penchant for unintentional irony, don't they?
They sure do.
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