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Ex-Detainee Was Bomber

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The Associated Press

Published: May 8, 2008

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A Kuwaiti freed from Guantanamo Bay carried out a suicide car bombing recently in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday, confirming what is believed to be the first such attack by a former detainee at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba.
Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi, 29, took part in one of three suicide bomb attacks in April that targeted Iraqi security forces in the northern city of Mosul, said U.S. Navy Cmdr. Scott Rye, a military spokesman in Baghdad. At least seven people were killed in the attacks.

Al-Ajmi's American attorney said incarceration at Guantanamo may have turned the Kuwaiti into a terrorist. But the U.S. military says he was already an enemy combatant when he was brought to Guantanamo in 2002 after being captured in Afghanistan.

Up to 36 former Guantanamo detainees have resumed hostilities against the United States, including some who have been taken back into custody or killed, the Pentagon says.
Military documents show al-Ajmi had a history of discipline problems at Guantanamo Bay.

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