[1] Boudella was captured by American intelligence officials, and transported to detention in the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
While they did report highly abusive treatment and interrogation while they were at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility in Afghanistan, they were treated well, once they arrived in Cuba.
The allegations of Qu'ran desecration and child abuse from Dizdarević's Der Spiegel interview were picked up and repeated by Qatar's Al Jazeera and Turkey's Kavkaz.
[7] On November 20, 2008, US District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the USA had no credible evidence to justify the detention of Boudella and four of the five other men.
[8] In telephone interviews Dizdarević called on Bosnian authorities to follow up with a demand that the men be immediately released: According to the Greek news agency Adnkronos Dizdarević planned to take the men's case to the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg herself, if Bosnian authorities didn't take prompt action.