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On Oct. 29, 2019, the ObamaWatcher website published an article positing that Barack Obama had allowed the release of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (who later became the leader of ISIS) from U.S. custody in 2004, because Obama at the time had deemed al-Baghdadi to be low risk: This item was not a factual recounting of real-life events. (In fact, Barack Obama did not become President of the United States until 2009 and thus could not have authorized al-Baghdadi's release in 2004.) This article originated with a website that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature, as follows: For background, here is why we sometimes write about satire/humor.
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