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Article: Fed: Experiments held at Guantanamo Bay says Habib
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- February 2, 2007
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AAP General News (Australia)
02-02-2007
Fed: Experiments held at Guantanamo Bay says Habib
SYDNEY, Feb 2 AAP - Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib has scoffed at government
claims that inmate David Hicks will receive an unbiased medical assessment at the US military
prison.
Mr Habib, who spent three years in Guantanamo Bay without charge until his release
in 2005, claimed mental experiments were conducted on detainees at the US military prison.
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said this week the federal government had asked US
authorities to conduct a physical and mental assessment on Hicks, who has been detained
without trial at Guantanamo Bay for five years.
Hicks' father ...