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March 31, 2009

US to Release Yemeni Doctor from Guantanamo
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The Obama administration has announced plans to release a Yemeni doctor
from Guantanamo just days before his habeas petition was scheduled to be
heard in federal court. Dr. Ayman Batarfi is an orthopedic surgeon who
was has been held since 2002. Batarfi said he was a humanitarian worker
who found himself at the battle of Tora Bora while Osama bin Laden was
in the area.



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