CAIRO (AP) -- Al-Arabiya television reported Thursday that a former Guantánamo detainee carried out a recent suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

A cousin said Abdullah Saleh al Ajmi, a Kuwaiti who was released from Guantánamo in 2005, was reported missing two weeks ago. His family learned of his death Thursday through a friend in Iraq, al-Arabiya said.

The cousin, Salem al Ajmi, told the station on Thursday that the former detainee was behind the latest attack in Mosul, although he did not provide more details.

Three suicide car bombers targeted Iraqi security forces in Mosul on April 26, killing at least seven people.

Mosul is believed to be the last urban stronghold of al Qaeda in Iraq.

It was not immediately possible to confirm the report. Ajmi was sent home to Kuwait in November 2005.

Pentagon documents indicate that Ajmi was 29 years old, born in Almadi, Kuwait, and was taken to Guantánamo from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Jan. 17, 2002.

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