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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - An Australian once held as a suspected terrorist by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay has lost a legal bid to regain his passport after a tribunal ruled he posed a security threat, his lawyer said Friday.
Egyptian-born Sydney resident Mamdouh Habib, 51, appealed Foreign Minister Alexander Downer's decision to cancel his Australian passport after he was released without charge from the U.S. naval base in Cuba and returned home in January 2005.
But the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which decides public appeals against federal bureaucrats' decisions, agreed with an Australian secret service assessment that Habib "would be likely to engage in conduct that might prejudice the security of Australia or of a foreign country" if he were allowed to travel.
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