Al-Alawi arrived at Guantanamo on January 17, 2002, and has been held at Guantanamo for 15 years, 2 months and 8 days.[2] In January 2010 the Guantanamo Review Task Force recommended he should be classed as a forever prisoner", one who couldn't face charges, because he was innocent of committing a crime, who, nevertheless, was too dangerous to release. By his 2015 Periodic Review Board hearing intelligence analysts had dropped the damning allegation that he was one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards, claiming instead that he "had spent time" with some of his bodyguards.[3]