On March 28, 2008 the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram reported that Fael had been transferred from Guantanamo "three years earlier", but that they had been unable to find out any reliable information about what happened to him after his transfer.[5] On November 26, 2008 the Department of Defense published a list of the dates when captives departed from Guantanamo.[8] According to that list he was repatriated on July 1, 2003. 716 Allah Muhammed Saleem 2002-08-05 2006-11-17 Determined not to have been an enemy combatants after all.[15] Released to Albania, on January 7, 2007, where he has applied for asylum.[16] According to the official list of release dates he left Guantanamo on November 17, 2006.[8]