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...that too is clouded by what many see as either government incompetence or a knee-jerk choice of "usual suspects." On Friday, the Interior Ministery claimed that investigators had intercepted a telephone call that proved that Baitullah Mehsud, a leader of the Pakistani Taliban thought to be affiliated with al-Qaeda, had instigated the attack. Ministry spokesman Cheema released a transcript of a purported conversation between Mehsud and a follower, offering congratulations for a job well done...
...Saturday morning, shortly after 8 a.m. local time, the man called "the Aussie Taliban" walked free from Adelaide's Yatala Prison in South Australia. Having served nine months for supporting al-Qaeda terrorists, David Matthew Hicks, 32, in jeans and a green polo shirt, issued a brief statement through his lawyer, David McLeod: "I had hoped to be able to speak to the media, but I'm just not strong enough. It's as simple as that...
Hicks' bizarre journey began in November 1999, when the former kangaroo skinner and roustabout boarded a plane to Pakistan and made contact with the terrorist group Lashkar-i-Tayyba. Known to fellow recruits as Mohammed Dawood or Abu Muslim al Austraili, Hicks entered the Lashkar-i-Tayyba training system, learned how to use a range of weapons and toured the front lines in Kashmir - the disputed territory over which Pakistan wages its long-running battle with India - claiming in letters home that he had fired weapons across the border. He later moved to Afghanistan, where he underwent training at al...
...convicted under the U.S. Military Commissions Act of 2006. Hicks pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism, and was sentenced to seven years (reduced to nine months for time served), but gave no insight into how a young father of two ended up in the inner sanctum of al-Qaeda's training camps in Afghanistan. Nor did his plea reveal what Hicks underwent or said while at Gitmo...
Australian authorities still consider Hicks a threat today; earlier this month the Australian Federal Police (AFP) obtained a control order to ensure that he is monitored. Using letters written to his parents while he was in Afghanistan, the AFP describes Hicks as a devotee of al-Qaeda, who once wrote that Osama bin Laden was "a lovely brother" and declared, "Western society is controlled by the Jews." Under the control order, Hicks must report to a police station three times a week, use an AFP-approved SIM card in any mobile phone, and must not leave Australia...