FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS GUANTANAMO DETAINEE CAN'T BE TRIED IN AUSTRALIA

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06716932
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2018
• Case Number: F-2018-00242
• Publication Date: July 20, 2003

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Message 43 of 783 for query
PREC: P DTG: 201425ZJUL03
FROM: FBIS RESTON VA
UNCLAS
WARNING: TOPIC: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL, HUMAN RIGHTS,
TERRORISM,
LEADER
SERIAL: SEP20030720000036
COUNTRY: AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATES
SUBJ: FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS GUANTANAMO DETAINEE CAN'T BE TRIED
IN AUSTRALIA
SOURCE: MELBOURNE RADIO AUSTRALIA IN ENGLISH 0500 GMT 20 JUL 03
TEXT:
[FBIS TRANSCRIBED TEXT] FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS GUANTANAMO
DETAINEE CAN'T BE TRIED IN AUSTRALIA
TEXT OF REPORT BY RADIO AUSTRALIA ON 20 JULY
AUSTRALIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER HAS REJECTED SUGGESTIONS THAT THE
US WOULD HAVE TO AGREE TO HAVE ALLEGED TALEBAN FIGHTER DAVID
HICKS
RETURNED TO AUSTRALIA FOR TRIAL. THE PENTAGON HAS DELAYED
CHARGING
MR HICKS WHILE AN AUSTRALIAN DELEGATION HEADS TO THE UNITED
STATES
FOR TALKS TO ENSURE HE RECEIVES A FAIR TRIAL.
MR DOWNER SAYS MR HICKS CAN'T BE TRIED IN AUSTRALIA OVER HIS
ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT WITH TERRORISTS.
[DOWNER] THE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE - AND TO THIS EXTENT I DO
AGREE WITH THEIR PERSPECTIVE - IS THAT THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE
BEEN INVOLVED IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER WITH AL-QA'IDAH, THIS IS THE
WORLD'S MOST EGREGIOUS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. AND (?THEY
DON'T
WANT TO) SEE THESE PEOPLE DURING THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM
WANDERING AROUND THE STREETS, INCLUDING THE STREETS OF OUR
COUNTRY.
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