 Al-Bahri and his brother-in-law, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, long held as detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, were featured in the film documentary "The Oath" (2010) by the American filmmaker Laura Poitras.Al-Bahri said that his meetings with al-Hitar were "tainted" because they took place in prison, and were under police surveillance.Shephard wrote that, using the term used by those who study rehabilitation of jihadists, al-Bahri was not "deradicalized" but rather "disengaged".