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Article: Prime Minister says he's satisfied Guantanamo Bay offers Australian-style justice
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- August 22, 2004
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AP Worldstream
08-22-2004
Dateline: SYDNEY, Australia
Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday he remains satisfied that the U.S. military trial awaiting Australian terror suspect David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be consistent with Australian criminal justice.
Hicks is among four suspected terrorists who face preliminary hearings at the naval base at the U.S. enclave in Cuba this week.
Howard has not been swayed by legal groups, opposition parties and Hicks' own lawyers who have condemned the system of military commission trials as unjust.
"We are satisfied that the rules that have been established for the military commission will deliver a process which is consistent with the criminal ...