On December 14, 2009, more than eight years after his arrest, the same judge who ordered his house arrest disposed the security certificate against him. The judge concluded that the evidence – both secret and public – against him did not hold up to scrutiny. While there were ""reasonable grounds to believe that Hassan Almrei was a danger to the security of Canada when he was detained in 2001"" he concluded that ""there are no longer reasonable grounds to believe that he is a security risk today"". In a comment this was paraphrased: what was reasonable in 2001 because much was unknown, was not reasonable anymore in 2009,