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Australian Detainee Has Hearing at Guantanamo Australian citizen David Hicks, charged with providing material support for terrorism, had a hearing Monday at Guantanamo. Hicks is the first prisoner to be formally charged under new military tribunal rules drawn up in the wake of a Supreme Court decision which found the previous rules unconstitutional.

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Australian Detainee Has Hearing at Guantanamo

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Australian Detainee Has Hearing at Guantanamo

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At Guantanamo Naval Base on Monday, the U.S. military arraigned Australian detainee David Hicks on one count of providing material support for terrorism.

Hicks is the first terrorism suspect to be prosecuted under revised military tribunals. The rules were rewritten last year after the Supreme Court found the Pentagon's system for trying Guantanamo detainees unconstitutional.