His release was ordered in 2008, as per the SOFA agreement -- all detainees who did not have a warrant or detention order needed to be released by 2009, with the exception of those prisoners Iraq wanted transferred to them.
Those were the November 2008 terms. It had nothing to do with Obama.
Facts, facts, facts! You will never make with the "cool" kids...........they are too easy to find......
His name, "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi", is an assumed name. Abu Bakr was the name of the first caliph—that is, the first successor of Muhammad; more importantly, he was the first Sunni successor, as opposed to Ali, who was the first Shia successor. "Al-Baghdadi" merely means "from Baghdad."
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As with many of al-Qaeda’s leaders, precise details are sketchy. His FBI rap sheet offers little beyond the fact that he is aged around 42, and was born as Ibrahim Ali al-Badri in the city of Samarrah, which lies on a palm-lined bend in the Tigris north of Baghdad. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a nom de guerre, as is his other name, Abu Duaa, which translates roughly as “Father of the Summons”.