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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 10:29 AM
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High-security prison plan for Hicks
Source: The Age (Australia)

A HIGH security prison in Adelaide that holds some of Australia's most notorious killers has emerged as David Hicks' most likely next home following his shock decision yesterday to plead guilty to a terrorism charge.

Terry Hicks told The Age last night from Washington that his son was so desperate he would have done anything to get out of Guantanamo Bay.

"He has had enough," Mr Hicks said. "He was at his wits end, he had to do something.">>>snip


The International Commission of Jurists' Victorian chairman Glenn McGowan, SC, said the guilty plea "should be regarded as the human result of over five years of unjustifiable incarceration in intolerable conditions".

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/highsecurity-plan-for-hicks/2007/03/27/1174761470787.html
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wakeme2008 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-27-07 10:58 AM
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1. IMHO Howard will do anything to stop Hicks coming to his
ground. IMHO from the second he lands in Oz Howard will be asked to pardon him and release him... Howard does not want that IMHO.
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