[Stephen F. Hayes – Monday, January 4]
Just last week, the Obama administration repatriated six Yemenis who had been held at Gitmo. Among them, Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, a graduate of al Qaeda's famous Khalden training camp. Batarfi has been waging jihad since the late 1980s, when he fought the Soviets. Batarfi, an orthopedic surgeon, also stayed at al Qaeda guesthouses, worked for an al Qaeda front group, met with a "Malaysian microbiologist" who was almost certainly the head of al Qaeda's anthrax program, and spent time with Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora. How do we know all of this? Batarfi told us -- he chose to volunteer it in his administrative review board hearing.
On January 5, Obama announced that he would halt the transfer of Gitmo detainees to Yemen.
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