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Now do I really look like a jihadist to you, hmmm?
He doesn't even have a beard -- of course he must have been "deluded" and is now on the "right track." Soon, he will even tell us "his story." Hey, he might even get a book deal and appear on Oprah out of all this. More on "his story", including how he deemed Osama bin Laden a "lovely man" and took orders from him.
"'Australian Taleban' fully free," from the BBC, December 21:
An Australian former inmate of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay is now a free man after Australian police lifted strict controls on his actions.David Hicks spent more than five years at Guantanamo Bay without a trial before admitting to charges of providing material support to al-Qaeda.
In return, he was allowed in May 2007 to serve out the last nine months of his sentence in an Australian prison.
Hicks, a convert to Islam, was captured by US troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
The former kangaroo wrangler was the first "enemy combatant" held at Guantanamo to be convicted by a US military commission.
'Still recovering'
The control orders limiting his movements expired at midnight on Saturday.
Australian police said they would not seek to extend the measures after Hicks made a public appeal to be allowed to "get on with my life".
He was subject to a strict curfew and restrictions on his travel and had to report regularly to police.
His telephone and internet communications were also limited.
Hicks has admitted to training with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and meeting its leader, Osama Bin Laden.
The 33-year-old has said he is recovering still from his ordeal at Guantanamo Bay and is not ready yet to tell his story.
But he has said he will do so.
Posted by Raymond at December 21, 2008 2:31 PM
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Traitor. If I were the Australian authorities, I would never have let him back in the country. Let him live in a Muslim country, see how he likes that.
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at December 21, 2008 3:06 PM
Let's hope a patriotic joey kicks him in his empty head and that's the end of this seditionist scumbag.
Posted by: profitsbeard at December 21, 2008 4:21 PM
He wants to "get on with his life"? Does he also want to "put the past behind him"? Does he also want to be given enough time to "get his head around the whole thing" which he hasn't "quite taken in yet"? And might he, if journalists call him up, be -- like some crooked executive -- "be travelling and unavailable for comment"?
"Get on with his life."
Good god.
Posted by: Hugh at December 21, 2008 5:55 PM
From the article: "The 33-year-old has said he is recovering still from his ordeal at Guantanamo Bay and is not ready yet to tell his story."
Yeah. He's still figuring out which lies will go over best.
"War is deception".
at December 21, 2008 6:45 PM
"The 33-year-old has said he is recovering still from his ordeal at Guantanamo Bay and is not ready yet to tell his story."
Yeah, he put on 15 kilos on weight; it's tough being force fed Duck a L'Orange and other gourmet delicacies three times a day.
at December 22, 2008 1:30 AM
I suppose there will be some people who are interested in his 'story', but I am not one of them...
Posted by: duh_swami at December 22, 2008 2:00 AM
A person who trained with al-Qaida (an organisation bent on destroying everything good) is the victim. What the hell has happened to Western civilization?
Posted by: Daniel D at December 22, 2008 7:34 AM
@ Daniel 7:34 AM. The problem with Western Civilization is the vast majority are too civilized to realize that there are times when being uncivil is the only way to survive.
Just my $.02 worth. Your mileage may vary.
Posted by: LC Revandryn, G.L.O.R. at December 22, 2008 1:41 PM
LC (etc); What you are saying is one of the biggest barriers we anti-jihadists face - an addiction in the West to being nice, to pacifism, to seeing things from the point of view of the "Other" to the extent that we value them more than we value ourselves.
When will we rediscover that necessary element inside us which lashes out at a foe which wants to destroy our children and ourselves?
I remember that old Bergman film, "Silent Spring", when the father prepares himself to take revenge on the man who rapes and kills his daughter. He knew he had to do it.
Posted by: PG
at December 22, 2008 5:04 PM
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