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Latest Gitmo releasee: Al-Qaeda operative accused of taking part in anthrax plot
jihadwatch.org ^ | March 31, 2009 | RAYMOND IBRAHIM

Posted on 03/31/2009 4:45:51 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

He also was accused of aiding terrorist-charities and repeatedly meeting with Osama bin Laden. All rubbish, insists his lawyer; as for his meetings with bin Laden, well, they were all merely "chance encounters."

"U.S. Decides to Release Detainee at Guantánamo," by William Glaberson for the New York Times, March 31:

The Justice Department announced Monday that the administration had decided to release a detainee at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, a Yemeni doctor who the Bush administration once claimed had taken part in an anthrax program of Al Qaeda.

The government had backed away from the anthrax accusations but had continued to hold the detainee, Dr. Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, asserting that he had worked for a charity that had terrorist ties and that he had met with Osama bin Laden.

The decision to release Dr. Batarfi came in the third case the Obama administration has reviewed under new procedures the president put in place to analyze the cases of military detainees in preparation for closing the Guantánamo prison in Cuba.[...]

(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; anthrax; batarfi; binladen; doctor; gitmo; guantanamo; physcian; ubl; yemen

1 posted on 03/31/2009 4:45:51 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Would anyone in their right mind think that binLaden ever had a “chance encounter” in his long festering life?

What, you say? Liberal judges?


2 posted on 03/31/2009 4:51:12 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Right..chance encounter with OBL, sure...I’ve shared a cab with him 5 times, uh-huh...


3 posted on 03/31/2009 4:53:22 PM PDT by gaijin
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4 posted on 03/31/2009 4:53:25 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Free ThinkerNY

One can only hope that if the terrorists that are released strike this country again the attack will take place in D.C. and the few politicians that still care for this country are out of town when it happens.


5 posted on 03/31/2009 5:23:25 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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