AUSTRALIAN ATTORNY-GENERAL SAYS GUANTANAMO DETAINEE TRAINED WITH AL-QA'IDAH

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06716949
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2018
• Case Number: F-2018-00242
• Publication Date: July 10, 2003

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WARNING: TOPIC: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL, HUMAN RIGHTS, TERRORISM
SERIAL: 5EP20030710000093
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA, AFGHANISTAN, UNITED STATES
SUBJ: AUSTRALIAN ATTORNEY-GENERAL SAYS GUANTANAMO DETAINEE
TRAINED WITH AL-QA'IDAH
SOURCE: MELBOURNE RADIO AUSTRALIA IN ENGLISH 0900 GMT 10 JUL 03
TEXT:
[FBIS TRANSCRIBED TEXT] AUSTRALIAN ATTORNEY-GENERAL SAYS
GUANTANAMO DETAINEE TRAINED WITH AL-QA'IDAH
TEXT OF REPORT BY RADIO AUSTRALIA ON 10 JULY
AUSTRALIA'S ATTORNEY-GENERAL, DARYL WILLIAMS, SAYS HIS
GOVERNMENT HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED SUSPECTED TALEBAN FIGHTER DAVID
HICKS HAD SIGNIFICANT TRAINING WITH THE AL-QA'IDAH TERROR NETWORK.
MR WILLIAMS WOULD NOT SAY IF THAT BELIEF WAS BASED ON INFORMATION
RESULTING FROM INTERROGATIONS, BUT HE CONFIRMED MR HICKS HAD BEEN
INTERVIEWED BY AUSTRALIAN AUTHORITIES SEVERAL TIMES.
MR HICKS, WHO HAS BEEN DETAINED AT GUANTANAMO BAY IN CUBA SINCE
DECEMBER 2001, HAS BEEN MADE ELIGIBLE TO BE TRIED BY A UNITED
STATES MILITARY COMMISSION. MR WILLIAMS SAYS THE INTENTIONS OF
AL-QA'IDAH ARE CLEAR.
[WILLIAMS] THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT PEOPLE WHO TRAIN WITH
AL-QA'IDAH WERE JOINING AN ORGANIZATION THAT HAD THE INTENTION OF
KILLING NOT ONLY AMERICANS BUT OTHER PEOPLE WHOSE FORM OF
GOVERNMENT OR IDEOLOGY OR RELIGION THEY DIDN'T SUPPORT. [END OF
RECORDING]
MR WILLIAMS ALSO SAYS THE GOVERNMENT HAS MADE IT CLEAR TO THE
UNITED STATES THAT IT OPPOSES THE DEATH PENALTY IN RELATION TO MR
HICKS.
[DESCRIPTION OF SOURCE: MELBOURNE RADIO AUSTRALIA IN ENGLISH --
GOVERNMENT-FUNDED OVERSEAS SERVICE OF THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING
CORPORATION]
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