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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday an Australian being held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp should be tried before a U.S. military tribunal on charges he helped al-Qaida fight coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Howard said his government would not seek the release of former kangaroo skinner David Hicks from the U.S. naval base in eastern Cuba.
"Our position in relation to Mr. Hicks is well known, and that is that given the nature of the allegations and given the arrangements that we have hammered out with the Americans regarding the military commission, we believe he should be tried before that military commission," Howard told reporters in Melbourne.
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