Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah

Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1959

Place of Birth: Kuwait City, Capital Governorate, Kuwait

Nationality: Kuwait

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Fouad Mahmoud al Rabiah (born June 24, 1959) is a Kuwaiti, who was held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba 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 Guantanamo military commission, but all charges were dropped in 2009. In September 2009, Al Rabia's habeas corpus petition concluded, and US District Court Judge ordered that he be released "forthwith".
That release occurred on December 9, 2009.
Al Rabiah's lawyers called on President Barack Obama to apologise on behalf of the United States and provide "appropriate compensation" to al Rabiah for his ordeal.