(Washington, DC) -- A Kuwaiti man who'd been imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba for nearly eight years will be released soon.

A judge has ordered Fouad al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti Airways engineer, released after finding the man had a record of charity work with no ties to terrorism.

The U.S. government had accused the man of providing money to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a visit to Afghanistan in 2001 and with helping the Taliban during another trip in October, 2001.

His attorneys claimed Rabiah was actually in Afghanistan in October of 2001, coordinating aid supply deliveries to refugees in Iran.

Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Justice Department's national security division says the government won't appeal the order and is working on a quick transfer out of Gitmo for Rabiah.

There are still 215 detainees being held at the prison.

The Obama administration is expected to decide by the middle of this month which of them will face charges in U.S. criminal courts and which will be released.

　

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