Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah (born June 24, 1959) is a

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i, who was held in the

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Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in

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'', March 15, 2006 from May 2002 to December 2009. Al Rabia's Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 551. Al Rabia was an executive with Kuwait's national airline before his wrongful arrest and extradition. He had studied in the United States, and described himself as an America-phile. He is also a philanthropist, along with members of his family, and they regularly followed-up to observed in person the charitable enterprises they donated to. He had routinely made preliminary and follow-up field trips to check on projects they had donated to. In 2001, he described traveling to Afghanistan, for charitable purposes. Al Rabia was to face charges in 2008 before a

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, but all charges were dropped in 2009. In September 2009, Al Rabia's

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petition concluded, and

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ordered that he be released "forthwith". That release occurred on December 9, 2009. Al Rabiah's lawyers called on President

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to apologise on behalf of the

and provide "appropriate compensation" to al Rabiah for his ordeal.

Guantanamo military commission

On October 22, 2008, the Office of Military Commissions filed charges against Fouad Al Rabia and Fayiz Al Kandari. On August 12, 2009, Fouad Al Rabia's Defense Counsel, Lieutenant Commander Kevin Bogucki asserted his clearance for travel to Kuwait was being withheld. All charges were dropped in 2009.

Fouad al Rabia's weight

The documents published when charges were proposed against Fouad al Rabia included the weights recorded by the camp's medical staff.

Torture

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'' published an article based on interviews with Fouad and other former Guantanamo captives, entitled ''"Former Guantanamo inmates tell of confessions under 'torture'"''. Al Rabiah told Jenifer Fenton he was tortured by his initial

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captors, tortured in the Kandahar detention facility, tortured in the Bagram Collection Point, and tortured in Guantanamo. He told her he had been interrogated over 200 times, including ''"lots and lots of torture"''. Al Rabiah showed Fenton a copy of a two-page letter found in Tora Bora that he was tortured into confessing he wrote. The letter's author wrote that he and his son Abdullah lead an attack in Afghanistan in 1991. However, while Al Rabiah's son is named Abdullah, he was only one year old in 1991. Al Rabiah told Fenton he started to confess to all his interrogators accusations after he was asked ''"Would you like to go home a drug addict?"'' He told Fenton that he regarded this as one of the threats, that triggered his false confessions.

Repatriation

On May 12, 2007, the ''

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'' reported that Kuwait and the USA concluded negotiations regarding the repatriation of the remaining Kuwaiti captives.

Immediate release

On September 17, 2009,

Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered that Al Rabia could no longer be detained under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force and ordered the government to release him from detention at Guantanamo Bay He was repatriated on December 9, 2009. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that he had been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the government of Kuwait. The transfer was carried out under an arrangement between the United States and the government of Kuwait. The United States would continue to consult with the government of Kuwait regarding Al Rabia.

References

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Judges Question Evidence On Guantanamo Detainees
NPR - April 28, 2011
Royal jet sent to bring Kuwaiti home from GuantanamoEmotional welcome home for Guantanamo detaineeInnocent Guantánamo Torture Victim Fouad al-Rabiah Is Released in Kuwait
* ttp://www.miamiherald.com/1218/story/1377049.html Pentagon drops Kuwaiti's war crimes casebr>Barack Obama means change – except on tortureJudge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruling (PDF)
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