Former Guantanamo Detainee Takes Part In Iraq Suicide Bombing

A Kuwaiti man who complained about maltreatment during a three-year stay in the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was involved in a deadly suicide bombing in northern Iraq last month, the U.S. military confirmed yesterday.

Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi, 29, whom the U.S. military accused of fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan and wanting to kill Americans, was involved in one of three suicide bombings that killed seven Iraqi security forces in Mosul on April 26, Defense Department officials said.

They said that after his release in Kuwait, Ajmi traveled to Iraq via Syria -- a common way for foreign fighters to enter Iraq through porous borders. Military officials said Ajmi's motives were unclear, but in a lengthy martyrdom audio recording before his death, Ajmi implores people to take part in suicide bombings to attack Americans.

In portions of the recording translated by the Bethesda-based SITE Intelligence Group, Ajmi decries the conditions at Guantanamo as "deplorable" and urges others to fight.

"Whoever can join them and execute a suicide operation, let him do so. By God, it will be a mortal blow," Ajmi says. "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."

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Comments

[RJC]

You know what.? If I had been sent to Gitmo, and I was a terrorist, and let go, I would return to fighting the US. You know what else, if I was not a terrorist, but completely innocent, and let go, I would probably join anyone fighting the US. I would fight anyone who unjuslty imprisoned me and denied me due process, that is what any red-blooded American would do, or anyone else. That is precisely the dillemma one faces when one acts unjustly, such as our government. I would say most of the people in GITMO have terrorist ties, but there are a few innocent people. One innocent person is too many without due process. One innocent person person rendered and tortured and killed anywhere in the world on our behalf is too many, if we are the country we profess to be. Or lets stop pretending, be honest and declare we are in fact as heinous as many others in the world. Then we don't have to keep justifying ourselves, everyone sees through the facade anyway. Our compromising our own proffessed principles has done more to support our enemies and eliminated our support around the world than anything the terrorists could ever have devised.

[TunnelRat]

They should have kept in Gitmo, but the left is doing all it can to make sure he and folks like him get out and kill more Americans.

[5thGenDem]

If he wasn't a terrorist before Gitmo, his treatment there took care of that!

[GhostintheMachine]

Its nice to see you display your sympathy for terrorists, you must be upset that there aren't a bunch of bad stories (good stories to you) coming out of Iraq recently.