Australian terror suspect faces new-style Guantanamo trial

A former kangaroo skinner is today expected to get a chance to contest allegations that he took up arms against the United States in the chaotic aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

After a nomadic decade that carried him from the Australian outback to the battlefields of Afghanistan, David Hicks ended up locked away at the remote Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, accused of training with al Qaida and fighting for the Taliban.