How to Build a Human Bomb
by George Monbiot / May 13th, 2008

When we learnt last week that Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi had blown himself up in Mosul in northern Iraq, the US government presented this as a vindication of its policies. Al-Ajmi was a former inmate of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon says that his attack on Iraqi soldiers shows both that it was right to have detained him and that it is dangerous ever to release the camp’s prisoners.Josh White, 8th May 2008. “Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Joined Iraq Suicide Attack,” Washington Post. On the contrary, it shows how dangerous it was to put them there in the first place.
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