Despite the warnings by the US Government, a man who had been detained in Somalia was transferred to the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay in September 2007, where he was held in extra-judicial detention for two and a half years and subsequently released without charge. The US government claimed that he had been a suspected Al-Qaeda member and they also said that Abdullahi Sudi Arale was a member of the ICU, although there is no evidence that either of these claims are true.