Former U.S. Detainee Carries Out Iraq Suicide Attack

Newsday has reported that a former detainee held in Guantanamo Bay has carried out a suicide attack in Iraq that killed seven people. This shouldn’t be surprising; the mass detention of so-called enemy combatants, many without trial for years on end, only ensures that the U.S. and its allies will have a growing body of angry Muslim men who now have a real grudge to bear. In fact, “preventative strikes” and prison camps are but a recipe for future terrorism; from a security stand point such an approach never really made much sense.

Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had reportedly been detained in Guantanamo Bay for 3.5 years where his lawyer said that al-Ajmi once “appeared for a meeting with a broken arm…that al-Ajmi said he had suffered…when guards tried to stop him from praying.” In 2005, al-Ajmi was transferred to Kuwait where he was acquitted in 2006. Settling down, al-Ajmi married and had a child, according to his cousin, Salem al-Ajmi, to whom the suicide attack came as a surprise.

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