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[ddeubel]

5 years later, the first prisoner tried under the new military Commissions Act is quickly found guilty of giving material support to terrorists. Sentencing in a few weeks.....

Kudos to defense council Mori, a brave American Marine and his explicit description of these as "kangaroo courts" and his calling out of prosecutor Col Davis. who in turn called for him to be charged for using "contemptuous " words about higher ups (the prez and others) and bringing disrespect to the uniform. I am sure Mori will end up like Swift. Sent out on his ass, with as little noise as possible......

But it seems this has all been arranged by higher powers. Too bad for all the other detainees who are in line behind the "whitey". Also too bad for all the other hundreds of detainees who still have not been charged with whatsoever.......

My question to others here. How many years do you think Hicks should get? Has his 5 years with assorted tortures and beatings been enough? What do you decide and what do you think the judge will decide?

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/27/news/web-0327gitmo.php

[Summer Wine]

Hard to say. If he was really supporting the Taliban and desired to support Al Qaeda in its attacks against Australia then he is still guilty of treason under Australian law.

If not, then maybe he's done his time. Though would be curious as to whether he would still be interested in following hard core islamic ideas.

I mean he was captured in Afghanistan supposedly working with the Taliban, it wasn't like he was in Saudia Arabia, Malaysia, Indonesia or France learning the Koran and developing his moderate islamic identity.

[happeningthang]

I haven't really been following the case, but it seems to me this guy is just a well motivated misfit adventurist, who thought it would be exciting to join up with Al Queda and shoot guns.

He was training with them, and wether he knew it or not I don't know, but I'd guess the purpose of that was for him to be planted back in Australia or elsewhere as terrorist.

Doesn't mean he wanted that, or he was going to do it, so all he's really guilty of is associating with a terrorist group. Is that what "giving material support" means? It's another piece of Orwellian newspeak used in every article to describe his charges with no information on what that actually is.

Hicks seems guilty of that much at least and deserves detention, although a trial before that detention would have been nice. He's confessed to as much, but it could well have been to get it over with and out of Guantanamo. He'll be doing a bit longer in the relative comfort of an Australian jail. Another 2-5 years seems about right. At least until after the Australian election.