The United Nations High Commission for Refugees wrote The Pentagon, on December 20, 2006, seeking information on why Barre, and another man were being detained in Guantanamo.
[4] The BBC's report stated that Al Barakat made the watchlist because American intelligence analysts had suspected it had been used to finance the 9-11 hijackers, but that the 9/11 Commission had investigated this theory and found it baseless.
On June 26, 2009, the Washington Post published a letter to United States President Barack Obama from Mohammed's father, Sulaymon Barre Ali.
[5][6] On June 28, 2008, the Washington Post reported that the Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush would allow Mohammed Sulaymon Barre to file a habeas corpus petition.
[8] On December 30, 2008, United States Department of Justice official Daniel M. Barish informed the court that the DoJ had filed "factual returns" in seven habeas cases, including Mohammed Sulaymon Barre's.
[10] Rosenberg reported that Barre and another Somali (Ismael Arale) had arrived in Somaliland, where they were promptly released and rejoined their families in Hargeisa (capital of the region).