The case was finally dismissed in 2009 after being remanded by the United States Supreme Court to the US District Court for the District of Columbia, on grounds of the government officials having had "limited immunity" at the time. In December 2009, the US Supreme Court declined to accept the case for hearing on appeal. The British government paid £1 million to Jamal al-Harith after his release from Guantanamo.[6] He would later go on to carry out a suicide bombing in Iraq in 2017.[2]