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ASIO evidence 'used in Egypt'
2005-03-08
FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib says evidence seized by ASIO at his Sydney home in 2001 was used during his interrogation and torture in Egypt. Egyptian interrogators questioned him about hundreds of phone numbers he believes were contained in his mobile phones, Mr Habib has told the SBS program Dateline, which will air tonight. "When they interrogate me I believe they get it from Australia because they give me ... about 300 phone numbers," The Sydney Morning Herald said Mr Habib told SBS. "They tell me you have to give addresses and who are these people and how you know them? And they put me in a room with a few guards and if my hand stopped writing I got beaten."

Mr Habib's lawyer Stephen Hopper told the newspaper several mobile phones and a computer were seized during the ASIO raids in 2001. The paper said Mr Habib's comments will raise more questions about the Australia's involvement in the matter, despite Attorney-General Philip Ruddock repeatedly denying Australian officials knew about Mr Habib's abduction by US intelligence agents. When asked if Australia supplied any information to the Egyptians, Mr Ruddock told Dateline: "I don't believe they did." Mr Habib alleges he was arrested in Pakistan and taken to Egypt where he was tortured between November 2001 and February 2002. ASIO has refused to any answer any questions on the matter.
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