Donning civilian clothing, his captors stormed the garage where Al-Noaimi practiced carpentry, and held the thirty-two year old at gun point. In a recently conducted interview with FRB, Al-Noaimi described the scene in which he was "surrounded by ten men, each of whom bore arms”.
"They approached slowly, asking whether I was Ammar, to which I responded 'yes', but before I could make sense of anything” Ammar said,"I was being held down by two men while another handcuffed me".