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Iraq
Ex-Gitmo inmate in Iraq suicide bombing
2008-05-02
So how many does this make?
A Kuwaiti man released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay in 2005 has carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq, his cousin told Al Arabiya television on Thursday. A friend of Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi in Iraq informed his family that Abdullah carried out the attack in Mosul, his cousin Salem told the Dubai-based television channel. "We were shocked by the painful news we received this afternoon ... through a call from one of the friend's of martyr Abdullah in Iraq," said Salem al-Ajmi in a telephone interview aired by Arabiya.
Shocked! Shocked, I tells ya!!
He did not say when the suicide bombing happened.
Probably when he went...BOOM!
Abdullah had been missing for two weeks and his family learned he left Kuwait illegally for Syria, he said. Abdullah had sent messages to his wife from Iraq. Abdullah, 30, had a son after he was released from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States holds suspected terrorists, Salem said.
So, Reuters, does this means he's still a "suspected" terrorist?
There were no indications Abdullah had any plans to join insurgents in Iraq although he became less sociable in the period before he disappeared, he said.
Are you okay, Abdullah?
I...I...feel like I'm about to explode!

Many of the men held at Guantanamo were captured in Afghanistan in the U.S.-led war to oust the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many have been held for years and nearly all are being held without charge. Washington has designated Guantanamo prisoners "enemy combatants".
For good reason, evidently...
Posted by:tu3031

#5  I try to tell everyone that we are not the infidels they are. They are the non-believers the lovers of hate.
Posted by: Chief   2008-05-02 18:02  

#4  Al, He was trying to kill infidels, so his intentions were good, and so Allah should be merciful if he screwed up and only killed Muslims. Besides, those Muslims were probably Shiites, so they deserved to die anyway.
Posted by: Rambler in California   2008-05-02 17:38  

#3  How do they know he's a martyr if all he kills are other muslims?

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al   2008-05-02 17:22  

#2  It's all our fault.
Posted by: DK70 the Scantily Clad7177   2008-05-02 14:47  

#1  There were no indications Abdullah had any plans to join insurgents in Iraq although he became less sociable in the period before he disappeared, he said.

There, in one short sentence, you can trace the entire course of ignorant lethality of Reuters.

Shall we start with "no indications"? Was he a 50 year old named Wilfred from Australia?

"Any plans" - how did he get to Gitmo in the first place?

Sometimes it's too painful to go on plumbing the bottomless depths of journalistic idiocy. The spelling seems accurate, though.
Posted by: Harcourt Jush7795   2008-05-02 14:42  

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