Gitmo alum strikes in Mosul

Amnesty International and the ACLU protest Guantanamo detention facilities in DC, January 2008

(Click picture for more on that protest)

Fox News reports that a recently released Guantanamo prisoner allegedly didn’t waste anytime blowing himself up in Mosul recently;

Three years ago, Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti soldier who deserted to fight in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban, sat in a detention cell at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while lawyers argued whether he was an “enemy combatant.”

Last week, a Dubai-based television channel reported that al-Ajmi was killed carrying out a homicide bombing in Mosul, Iraq.

While the report did not specify which attack Abdullah carried out, Iraqi officials reported that Mosul was hit on April 26 by three homicide attacks, killing seven people.

CBS News reported that al-Ajmi carried out an attack on Wednesday, April 30, according to an unconfirmed report posted on a jihadist Web site.

Al-Ajmi’s cousin, Salem, reportedly told Al-Arabiya television that , “We were shocked by the painful news we received … from one of the friends of martyr Abdullah in Iraq.”

James Taranto at WSJ’s Best of the Web quotes a blogger/law professor making excuses for the Left’s shallow position;

Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, blogger and law professor Jonathan Adler makes a manful effort at evenhandedness:

What does this prove? Nothing really, but I’m sure partisans in the debate over Guantanamo and the treatment and detention of alleged [sic] enemy combatants will see this as evidence that confirms their respective points of view. On the one hand, Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi may have been a dangerous enemy combatant all along, and should never have been released. On the other hand, he may have been wrongfully detained in the first place, only to become radicalized by his (mis)treatment by the U.S. military. In other words, we either had a terrorist and let him go, or we created one.

So I guess the Left would have us release all of the Gitmo detainees because we can’t decided if the chicken or the egg came first. But that’s the Left’s main problem – we should find out why these creatures do what they do. They ignore the fact that these criminals are actually killing people while the Left gazes at it’s collective navel.

As I’ve reminded readers a number of times, there was no outcry from these same people when the Clinton Administration detained hundreds of Haitians (who had committed no crimes) in Guantanamo in hastily erected tent cities under much worse conditions than the current residents suffer. The only difference was the political party of the Presidents.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Politics, Terror War