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By Thomas Jeffrey

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Article Posted: Monday December 31, 2007

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The only Guantanamo Bay prisoner as-yet convicted of terrorism charges was released this past Saturday after spending 9 months in an Australian prison for lending material support to the enemy. David Hicks, a 32-year old native Australian who was captured while fighting alongside al Qaeda in Afghanistan, walked out of Yatala prison and into hiding, his lawyer stating that his client fears for his safety from radical extremists from both sides of the political spectrum. Mr. Hicks spent five years as a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, during which time he renounced both the Muslim faith he converted to as well as his allegiance to Usama bin Laden before signing a confession as part of a plea deal that allowed him to return home to serve out his sentence. It has been reported that Terry Hicks, David’s father, encouraged his son to agree to the plea agreement as it seemed the only way for him to leave US custody and return to Australia to begin to resume a normal life.

‘Aussie Taliban’ Hicks a free man, but in hiding — AFP via Google.com

- posted by: Thomas Jeffrey and Dec 31, 10:27 PM in newsbriefs

 

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