Former kangaroo skinner Al Qaeda guy at Gitmo got 9 months

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/March/theworld_March812.xml§ion=theworld

GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Australian Al Qaeda foot soldier David Hicks was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday but will only serve nine months, a US military tribunal said. snip

The deal allowed all but nine months of the sentence to be be suspended, meaning he could be free by New Year’s. Hicks will serve his sentence in Australia. The United States will send him home by May 29 after holding him for more than five years at the Guantanamo base in Cuba.

In Australia, Hicks’ father said Saturday he was relieved his son would soon be home. ‘The bottom line of all this is that at least he’s back home. He’s out of that hell hole,’ Terry Hicks told local media.

The younger Hicks, a former kangaroo skinner from Adelaide, acknowledged that he trained with Al Qaeda, fought US allies in Afghanistan in late 2001 for two hours, and then sold his gun to raise cab fare and tried to flee by taxi to Pakistan.

Hicks, 31, denied having advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks. His attorney, Marine Maj. Michael Mori, portrayed him as a now-apologetic soldier wannabe who never shot at anyone and ran away when he got a taste of battle.

[MissWaverly]

1. ran away when He got a taste of battle

why would we need to torture someone like this, he fought US allies in Afghanistan for 2
hours, what top level military information did he have. We have held this man since 2001
for what?

[rgbecker]

2. And how many....

have been captured, tried and convicted of plotting 911 attacks?

Top priority: Shut down Gitmo now.

[Random_Australian]

3. Someone kept in prison for years agrees to the only thing that will let him out.

:eyes: what a fucking good way of telling if someone is innocent or guilty.

Bah.

I just love those checks and balances, so when it is ruled unlawful for an American to be treated in one way, the infamous shrubs goes and uses it on non-Americans. :eyes:

Bah again.

[Turbineguy]

4. "...ran away when he got a taste of battle."

Now if he'd been a good republican he would have run away BEFORE he got a taste of battle.