I do not understand the initial statement that an 18 year old from Yemen, that they mention was preparing to start college, was "conducting research in Afghanis

I do not understand the initial statement that an 18 year old from Yemen, that they mention was preparing to start college, was "conducting research in Afghanistan", until he was arrested in February 2002. So this is research by at best a high-school kid in taliban-ruled and/or US-occupied Afghanistan, and it seems like a bizarre claim. This article also conflicts with the birth year on his wikipedia page, according to which he would have been 22/23 in early 2002. This birth year estimate comes from the Guantanamo authorities however, so not sure whether that is very credible either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansur_Ahmad_Saad_al-Dayfi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansur_Ahmad_Saad_al-Dayfi