Fed: Try Hicks and Habib at home, says Latham

AAP General News (Australia)
01-15-2004
Fed: Try Hicks and Habib at home, says Latham

Labor Leader MARK LATHAM says Australian terrorist suspects DAVID HICKS and MAMDOUH
HABIB should be tried at home.

HICKS and HABIB are detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay without charge on suspicion
of links to the al-Qaeda terrorist group.

South Australian HICKS is expected to face a US military trial, but his lawyers and
others representing Guantanamo Bay detainees say any such hearing would be unconstitutional.

Mr LATHAM says his issue is not …