ISIS Says British Militant Carried Out Suicide Attack in Iraq<br />Several British news organizations — including the BBC, The Times of London and The Guardian — reported Tuesday evening<br />that the man was Jamal Malik al-Harith, a native of Manchester, England, who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001; detained by the United States in the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from 2002 to 2004; and released to Britain, where the government later awarded him 1 million pounds, about $1.25 million at current exchange rates, to settle a lawsuit.<br />However, the case of Mr. Harith and several other British citizens held at Guantánamo became divisive,<br />and the British government — then led by Mr. Blair — helped secure their release.<br />Blair said that It is correct that Jamal al-Harith was released from Guantánamo Bay at the request of the British government in 2004,<br />Maj. Ben Sakrisson, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said in a statement: "I can confirm<br />that an individual named Jamal Malik al-Harith was detained in the Guantánamo Bay detention facility from February 2002 to March 2004, when he was released to the United Kingdom.<br />Mr. Blair said in a statement that he was being unfairly blamed for the Americans’<br />release of Mr. Harith to Britain, even though it was widely supported at the time.<br />"The reason it did take a long time for their release was precisely the anxiety over their true affiliations,"<br />he added, referring to Mr. Harith and other Britons who had been held at Guantánamo.<br />22, 2017<br />LONDON — They called him Abu Zakariya al-Britani — the surname means "the Briton" —<br />and they say he blew himself up on Monday in an attack at a village southwest of Mosul, Iraq.
