Former terror suspect to stand at election ( Australia)

[Swagman]

Thursday February 1, 12:02 PM
Former terror suspect to stand at election
By 7News

"Former Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habib is to stand for election in the NSW state poll.
Mr Habib will run as an independent in the safe Labor seat of Auburn (Sydney), standing against ALP incumbent Barbara Penny.

He announced his candidacy on Thursday morning, pledging to campaign against anti-terrorist legislation - to work for "the right to freedom of expression and in opposition to the anti-terrorist laws, state and federal".

He also pledged to "fight racism, the end of scapegoating of Aborigines, Muslims and migrants," and to oppose Australia's involvement in the war in Iraq.

Mr Habib spent three years at the US prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba, after he was arrested in Pakistan in 2001 on suspicion of involvement in terrorism."

He was released without charge in January 2005.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070201/23/129n1.html

[Vidar]

1. I wish him well.