U.S. judge orders Kuwaiti held at Guantanamo freed

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Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Obama administration to release another Kuwaiti detainee held at the controversial U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered that Fouad Al Rabiah be released from the detention facility where he has been held for more than seven years on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to the Taliban and al Qaeda.

The U.S. government has accused Al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti Airlines manager, of providing money to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and helping to coordinate and support Taliban fighters in the mountainous Tora Bora region in Afghanistan.

Bin Laden is believed to have escaped through the area as U.S. forces and their allies overran Taliban and al-Qaeda positions.

But Al Rabiah's lawyers said the case was based on mistaken identity and that their client was in Afghanistan in October 2001 coordinating deliveries of aid supplies from Iran to refugees.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE58H0GH20090918

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1. The question as always will be....

freed where?

[Ian David]

2. He'll be tagged and released by Marlin Perkins.

[Solly Mack]

3. k/r

[Soylent Brice]

4. one more person that has a better reason than most to hate us.

thanks Shrub.

K&R