SYDNEY (AFP) ??” A suspected Australian terrorist was tortured during interrogation in Egypt where he was taken while in the custody of US authorities.

SYDNEY (AFP) ??” A suspected Australian terrorist was tortured during interrogation in Egypt where he was taken while in the custody of US authorities, an Australian television station claimed.

The SB Dateline program, to be paid to be screened late Wednesday, cites a senior Qatar politician as saying he knows alleged terrorist Mamdouh Habib was tortured during six month in Egypt before he was transferred to the US Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.

The Egyptian-born Habib was captured in Pakistan in October 2001 in a short time after the United States launched its war onward terror in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in modern York and Washington.

Another Australian, Muslim change the heart of David Hicks, who was captured fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan in late 2001 is also in Guantanamo Bay facing trial by the agency of a military commission on terror charges.

SB released cites of the program which includes an interview with a