On June 6, 2007, the Department of Defense announced the transfer of Abdullahi Sudi Arale (also known as Ismail Mahmoud Muhammad) to the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. At the time, the U.S. military released a brief press release saying that Arale’s capture “exemplifies the genuine threat that the United States and other countries face throughout the world from dangerous extremists.” More specifically, the DOD claimed: