freediver wrote on Apr 5^th, 2007 at 7:45am:

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  Re: Hicks got off light
Reply #2 - Mar 31st, 2007, 5:17pm    SC - it may appear Hicks got off lightly because of the media coverage recently, but let's be realistic.  Do you think that the Americans who worship the death penalty and are best buddies with Howard - would really have given Hicks only 9 months if they believed he was a terrorist.

Howard would have had a quiet word in Bush's ear and told him that he didn't want Hicks released and Hicks would have stayed in Guantanamo for the duration of the War on Terror - probably our lifetime.

Howard has an election to campaign for so a deal has been made because he wants Australia to think he is a fair man.  Hicks can get out of jail by the end of the year - but he is not allowed to talk to the media for 12 months under any condition.

If our current affairs programs ran with stories of Hicks imprisonment and torture during Howard's campaign - well it wouldn't be a good look for him, would it? "
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Good post mantra ---

Id also like to add that I believe the information oput out by the media at present re- if Hicks can or cannot talk to the media or tell his story is deliberaletly complicit so as to confuse Hicks-The out come being that Hicks breaks his deal under his plae bargain conditions and is taken back to the states--Hicks has been set up and I hope he says nothing and just dissappears into  the horizon when hes free.


A trap has been laid out for Hicks-.This will come to pass. These 2 evil Governments arent finished with him yet.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Hicks-wont-speak-to-media-for-a-year/2007/04/20/1176697046331.html

Australian David Hicks - the first person convicted by the US of war crimes since World War II - will keep a pre-trial agreement preventing him from talking to reporters for one year, his lawyer says.

Email me when someone replies to this thread   Hicks was 'AL Queda Operative'..posted on 11 jan 07 - 9:39 am by auzgurl But the US prosecutor has said Mr Hicks, 31, must be held accountable before the military commissions being set up by the Pentagon.

"David Hicks attended basic training, the al-Qaeda basic training, (and) went back for repeated advance courses in terrorism," Col Davis has told Fairfax newspapers.

"He knew and associated with a number of al-Qaeda senior leadership. He conducted surveillance on the US embassy and other embassies.

"He eventually left Afghanistan and it's my understanding was heading back to Australia when 9/11 happened.

"When he heard about 9/11, he said it was a good thing (and) he went back to the battlefield, back to Afghanistan, and reported in to the senior leadership of al-Qaeda and basically said, 'I'm David Hicks and I'm reporting for duty'."
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Prosecutors are saying Hicks was a fully fledged member of Al Queda..well they would would'nt they..after all this time what are they going to say?


Although Kelvin Thompson wants Hicks bought home and placed under a stricy control order..
But US prosecutor said he must stay face and face the Military Commissions at the Pentagon-

What hope has he got of receiving a fair trial in America?
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21042164-401,00.html


Nicky07....avatar

You should be able to set up automatic notification. There is a check box at the bottom when you compose a new post. Also, there is a 'notify' button.

What I had in mind was just posting a few responses back and forth to check the speed.

I meant comments from ex Guantanamo prisoners......................

Hicks in 30 years time......