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...JUSTICE 9 Months that David Hicks will serve in an Australian jail, after five years held without trial at Guantánamo Bay, upon pleading guilty to providing material support to terrorism 20 Years American John Walker Lindh is serving in federal prison for serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. Lindh's lawyers are seeking a reduced sentence in light of Hicks' punishment
Months that David Hicks will serve in an Australian prison, after being held for five years without trial at Guantánamo Bay. He pleaded guilty before a U.S. military commission of providing material support to terrorism...
More than five years after being brought to Guantánamo Bay, Australian David Hicks last week became the first Guantánamo inmate to be convicted of a crime after agreeing to a plea bargain. His surprising sentence includes nine months in prison, a one-year prohibition against speaking to the press, and an agreement not to press charges against U.S. government. Officials at Guantánamo have faced increasing pressure—and Supreme Court orders—to try the individuals being held. This first trial, however, is hardly reassuring; rather, it highlights the government?...
David Hicks is an Australian who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. It wasn't until after almost five years of detention at Guantánamo that he was brought to trial before a U.S. military judge. At the end of a tumultuous day, he pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terrorist organization, a charge stemming from time spent in an al-Qaeda training camp...
...also learned recently that almost as soon as Rumsfeld's successor, Robert Gates, assumed his new job, he started pushing to shut down Guantánamo. It was too tainted in the eyes of the world, he argued, for its verdicts to be accepted. He lost the fight, but it spoke of a shift in attitude in high places. Gates implied what many Americans have suspected for a while--that Guantánamo, too, is a lamentable case, one that does the U.S. more harm than good...