US contractor Alan Gross will not be among the nearly 3,000 prisoners that President Raul Castro announced will be released soon, an official with Cuba's foreign ministry said Friday. Gross -- who was arrested December 3, 2009, for delivering laptops and communications equipment to Cuba's small Jewish community under a State Department contract -- "will not be on the list" of foreigners who will be pardoned, Josefina Vidal with Cuba's foreign ministry told AFP.