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From the BBC:

A former Kuwaiti detainee at the US camp at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in northern Iraq, the US military has said.

A spokesman for US Central Command told the Associated Press that Abdullah al-Ajmi took part in an attack in Mosul on 29 April that killed several people.

There's a story to spin in there someplace. How about one of these?

• Political pressure overruled good judgment and several people were killed as a result
• Several people were killed in order to grant U.S. citizen legal protections to a terrorist
• The information indicating that the killer was a terrorist was correct, but it was politically incorrect to believe it
• The killer acted that way because he was enraged about the Iraqi invasion of his country
• If President Bush hadn't started the war for oil, none of this would have happened
• It doesn't matter that much because the people who were killed were Arabs and Muslims by an Arab Muslim
  

Maybe it is just as simple as these are the pirates of the modern world... lawless and stateless... and there is only one way to deal with them... and all of the spin and justifications for every other excuse or course of action is self-delusion.

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