| Federal Attorney-General Daryl Williams has confirmed Australian David Hicks will be among suspected terrorists to be tried before an American military tribunal. US President George W Bush has made a military order allowing the trials of the first of more than 600 so-called "enemy combatants" being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Mr Williams has revealed the Australian Government has been consulting with US authorities over the trial process. "The Government has been in extensive discussions with the US authorities," he said. "Those discussions will continue. Our objective will be to ensure that any trial that is undertaken of an Australian before a military commission is fair and transparent." Mr Hicks's lawyer in Adelaide, Stephen Kenny, says his client is among those chosen for the first six trials in the US. No specific charges have yet been brought against the captives and no decision has been made as to which military body will try them. CBS News in the US has reported Mr Hicks is one of those about to go on trial. It says the others include suspects from Britain, Yemen, Sudan and Pakistan. "There's evidence that thay may have attended terrorist training camps, they may have been involved in the kind of activities that are consistant with terrorist activities, financing, recruiting," a Pentagon official has told Reuters. "Those are the kinds of things that would lead us to the kind of determination the President made today." Mr Hicks has been held at the camp since his capture in Aghanistan in November, 2001. |