A Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee who went AWOL from the Kuwaiti military to fight in Afghanistan and later carried out a suicide attack in Iraq in 2008. By 2010 a Joint Task Force Guantanamo report quoted in the opening stated the detainee "went AWOL from the Kuwaiti military in order to travel to Afghanistan to participate in the Jihad." Today the word is gone from the opening, though it survives 5 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns he was held at Guantanamo and later carried out a suicide attack, and not that he described his own combat purpose in Afghanistan as jihad.
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The opening as it read in 2010
March 23, 2008) was a Kuwaiti citizen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps , in Cuba . Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports that he was born on August 2, 1978, in Almadi , Kuwait.1 Koslowe , Kristine A. Huskey , and Heather Lamberg Kafele filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees. In March or April 2008 Al Ajmi conducted a suicide attack in Iraq . a. The detainee is a Taliban fighter : The detainee went AWOL from the Kuwaiti military in order to travel to Afghanistan to participate in the Jihad . The detainee was issued an AK-47 , ammunition and hand grenades by the Taliban . b. The detainee participated in military operations against the coalition. The detainee admitted he was in Afghanistan fighting with the Taliban in the Bagram area. The detainee was placed in a defensive position by the Taliban in order to block the Northern Alliance . The detainee admitted spending eight months on the front line at the Aiubi Center, AF.[sic] The detainee admitted engaging in two or three fire fights with the Northern Alliance. The detainee retreated to the Tora Bora region of AF and was later captured as he attempted to escape to Pakistan .2 United States Department of Defense . Petition for writ of Certiorari , Findlaw , September 2, 2003 From Captive To Suicide Bomber "Ex-Guantanamo inmate in Iraq suicide bombing: TV" . International Herald Tribune . 2 May 2008 .3United States Department of Defense . p. page 38 .4
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Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi (2 August 1978 – 23 March 2008) was a Kuwaiti citizen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps , in Cuba .Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports indicated that he was born on 2 August 1978, in Almadi , Kuwait. Koslowe , Kristine A. Huskey , and Heather Lamberg Kafele filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees. In March or April 2008, Al Ajmi conducted a suicide attack in Iraq . United States Department of Defense .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi (2 August 1978 – 23 March 2008) was a Kuwaiti citizen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps , in Cuba . Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports indicated that he was born on 2 August 1978, in Almadi , Kuwait. Koslowe , Kristine A. Huskey , and Heather Lamberg Kafele filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees. In March or April 2008, Al Ajmi conducted a suicide attack in Iraq . United States Department of Defense .
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi (2 August 1978 – 23 March 2008) was a Kuwaiti citizen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps , in Cuba . Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports indicated that he was born on 2 August 1978, in Almadi , Kuwait. Koslowe , Kristine A. Huskey , and Heather Lamberg Kafele filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees. In March or April 2008, Al Ajmi conducted a suicide attack in Iraq . United States Department of Defense . Petition for writ of Certiorari , Findlaw , 2 September 2003 "From Captive To Suicide Bomber" .
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The opening as it stood in 2025
Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay prisoner (1978–2008) Abdallah Saleh Ali Al Ajmi (2 August 1978 – 23 March 2008) was a Kuwaiti citizen, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps , in Cuba . Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts reports indicated that he was born on 2 August 1978, in Almadi , Kuwait. Koslowe , Kristine A. Huskey , and Heather Lamberg Kafele filed a Petition for writ of Certiorari on behalf of Al Ajmi and eleven other Guantanamo detainees. In March or April 2008, Al Ajmi conducted a suicide attack in Iraq . United States Department of Defense . Petition for writ of Certiorari , Findlaw , 2 September 2003 "From Captive To Suicide Bomber" .
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