Hicks still guilty
DAVID Hicks is set to have his terrorism conviction overturned after the US conceded that the former Guantánamo Bay inmate is innocent, his lawyer says.
What they mean is that at that time there wasn’t a law that said it was illegal to fight for the other side and try and kill westerners.
He is guilty as sin by his own word and will never be accepted by decent Australians as anything else.
Adelaide-born Mr Hicks was 26 when he was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, which believed he was fighting for al-Qaeda.
He was held in the US-run jail in Cuba until 2007, when he pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism and was sent to Adelaide’s Yatala Prison to serve the rest of his seven-year sentence.
He was released under a control order later that year.
Hicks said he only pleaded guilty in an Alford plea agreement to escape the “indefinite solitary confinement I was suffering in Guantanamo Bay”.
“I am just sorry it has taken so long to clear my name.”Believe me Hicks, your name is not cleared.
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The mistake was made the moment he was picked up alive.
Hello 17….,
Kindly read Ray Scott’s history of 9 Squadron and Vietnam and then tell me again how wonderful Ham is as a historian.
Happy to oblige.
Ham is the most successful Australian war historian alive today.
Peter Fitzsimons and Mike Carlton are also pretty successful and eminently readable. I’ve just finished Fitzsimon’s “Gallipoli” – a gift from my imaginary son, and will review it on my blog shortly.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=vjXLAwAAQBAJ
http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/mike-carlton/cruiser-the-life-and-loss-of-hmas-perth-and-her-crew-9781864711332.aspx
Referring to either Fitzsimons or Carlton as “historians” is a bridge too far.
Neither of them will ever be an Antony Beevor. Heck, neither of them will ever be a J.E. MacDonnell. Their stuff is too error riddled and ill researched.
Neither of them will ever write a defining work, or anything new.
They’re too error prone and too lazy. And Fitzsimons doesn’t need to, he’s harvesting too much money from bogans by churning out simple stuff. Heck, it’s easier than having to research the subject, and if the book is big thick, it’ll sit well on loungeroom shelves and make the owner look well read about Aussie “history & shit like that”.
I keep hearing Hick’s lawyer telling us that the US has declared his client innocent but I am yet to see any actual statement by any US official confirming that. Until I do it will just remain speculation and maybe a bit of wishful thinking.