Australia returns passport to former Gitmo detainee

An Egyptian-born Australian has had his passport returned six years after his release from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay because he is no longer considered a risk to national security, intelligence officials said Friday. Mamdouh Habib was arrested in Pakistan in late 2001 and held as a suspected terrorist without charge before being returned from the US prison on Cuba to Australia in 2005.
Australia's top spy agency said it had provided a ``non-adverse security assessment' to Habib's latest passport application in March.