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A Kuwaiti freed from Guantanamo Bay carried out a suicide car bombing recently in Iraq, the U.S. military said Wednesday, confirming what is believed to be the first such attack by a former detainee at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba.Abdallah..
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Iraqis inspect the site where a female suicide bomber blew herself up in Amiriyat just outside Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. Police and hospital officials say two women and a 10-year-old girl were killed in the.
