Where are former Gitmo detainees now?

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The Obama administration has recently made public a new list of prisoners.

Cleared for release or transfer from its terrorist detention facility.

-- Guantanamo Bay Cuba apparently having served time there is becoming for insurgents.

-- having a Harvard degrees for college graduates tonight chief intelligence correspondent.

Catherine Herridge reports on what some of the gitmo alumni are up to.

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Is the leading suspect in the attack -- the Ben Ghazi consulate.

Privately counterterrorism officials say time -- gitmo can be like a badge of honor giving detainees street -- even rock star status.

Aside from being -- there's the saudis say he does Cherie who spent nearly six years at Guantanamo.

Released by the saudis he is now and the deputy leader of al-Qaeda in Yemen publicly the Defense Department downplays the Guantanamo effect.

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Maybe.

Given higher status in some terrorist groups.

I'm real probably not in the best of position -- -- accurately characterize that I think it's probably.

It's safe to say that.

Some of them probably.

Do require some degree of status but I'm not -- that's -- present.

The evidence points to a joint operation between being -- was group -- -- -- -- -- and the al-Qaeda affiliate North Africa.

-- Syria identified his gitmo found is detainee 317.

Remains a top target for the CIA in Yemen because of his alleged direct involvement in the underwear bomber -- on Christmas Day 2009.

According to the most recent data one in three detainees is now suspected or confirmed and returning to the battlefield.

These are the individuals that can do we've seen that will go back into the field and will return to a life of terrorism.

The death he would Mullah Omar the leader of the Taliban is also a former Guantanamo detainee who was released in 2007.

A federal law enforcement source tells fox that -- real concern that some detainees recommit to their cause look one time about.

And bring with them -- -- understanding of the way the American military works -- Catherine thank you.

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