Ayman Saeed Batarfi, an orthopedic surgeon from Yemen, is set to become the second prisoner released from Guantánamo Bay by a Justice Department task force. The government agreed last Friday to let Batarfi go after holding him for seven years. The Bush administration accused him of assisting al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Batarfi, who met Osama bin Laden twice, says that he was on a humanitarian aid mission. Wounded, he asked Afghan forces to turn him over to U.S. forces in hopes that he would receive better medical treatment. Instead, on January 27, 2002, the Americans put him in prison at the Bagram Air Base, and then shipped him to Guantánamo in the spring of 2002. It is not known where Batarfi will go after his release. Even though he is from Yemen, the U.S. government prefers not to send him back to his home country, which lacks a “sound rehabilitation system,” according to officials.