Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi
Guantanamo detainee
Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi
is a Yemeni doctor who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.
His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 627.
He is an orthopedic surgeon who graduated from medical school in Pakistan and pursued postdoctoral studies there.
On 30 March 2009, the Justice Department announced that the administration had decided to release Batarfi.
Batarfi was the second captive to be cleared for release by the Obama administration's review of captives' status.
Press reports
He claimed that he was forced to work as a doctor at the 2001 Battle of Tora Bora, during which time he treated injured mujahideen fighters inside the region's complex caves.
At one of his
Administrative Review Board hearings, he confirmed that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle, claiming that he had met with him for ten minutes.
On 25 May 2008, the Yemen Times reported that a number of the Yemeni captives in Guantanamo had gone certifiably insane under the conditions there.
The article quoted the recently released Sudanese journalists Sami Al Hajj, who reported that Yemeni captives had been driven insane through the administration of hallucinogenic drugs.
In his book The longest war, Peter Bergen quoted Batarfi, "He did not prepare himself for Tora Bora and to be frank he didn't care about anyone but himself."
Summary of Evidence memo
A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for
Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi's
Combatant Status Review Tribunal,
on 2 November 2004.
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