First minor story, New York City Edition: "Ex-Detainee Linked in Attack"
First minor story, National Edition: "Ex-Detainee Linked in Attack"
The Times uses different front pages for the two editions as they please.
Posted on 05/08/2008 8:24:46 AM PDT by neverdem
BAGHDAD — A former Kuwaiti detainee at the United States prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was one of the bombers in a string of deadly suicide attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last month, the American military said Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, urged American and Iranian officials to return to talks about Iraqi security, but said he understood that it was a difficult moment for reconciliation between the countries.
Cmdr. Scott Rye, a spokesman for the American military, identified one of the Mosul bombers as Abdullah Salim Ali al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti man who was originally detained in Afghanistan and spent three years at Guantánamo Bay before being released in 2005. “Al-Ajmi had returned to Kuwait after his release from Guantánamo Bay and traveled to Iraq via Syria,” Commander Rye said, adding that the man’s family had confirmed his death.
Mr. Ajmi is one of several former Guantánamo detainees believed to have returned to combatant status, said another American military spokesman, Cmdr. Jeffrey D. Gordon. “Some have subsequently been killed in combat and participated in suicide bomber attacks,” he said.
Commander Rye said it was rare to find Kuwaiti foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq. “Although 90 percent of all suicide bombers in Iraq have been foreigners, historically, Kuwaitis have comprised less than 1 percent of foreign fighters in Iraq,” he said.
The circumstances of the attack in which Mr. Ajmi was involved remained unclear, he said. There have been a number of suicide attacks in Mosul recently, and the city has become a center of activity for the insurgent group Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, American and Iraqi officials say.
In Baghdad, Mr. Zebari acknowledged in a news conference that recent tensions over Shiite militia activity in Iraq, which the United States has...
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First minor story, New York City Edition: "Ex-Detainee Linked in Attack"
First minor story, National Edition: "Ex-Detainee Linked in Attack"
The Times uses different front pages for the two editions as they please.
“Former Guantánamo Detainee Tied to Attack”
Clearly, he SHOULD have been “tied” to a post... and shot.
I’m in favor of a Gitmo Terrorist Relocation Program. Fly out over the Atlantic and push them out the door.
The ACLU is SHOCKED!
Can’t wait to hear Hillary and Obama on this one.
Oh, they’ll just blame it on us for making the bomber into what he is, since, you know, they’re all innocent before they get to Gitmo.
< /sarcasm >
Paging Nancy Pelosi!....Paging Nancy Pelosi!....
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He must have been scarred by his imprisonment. /sarc
Thanks neverdem.
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