David Hicks, Australian convert to islam held in Guantanamo Bay:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070223/19/12j28.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday February 24, 10:47 AM
<b>Cheney, Australia's Howard to discuss Iraq, Afghanistan</b>
[...]
Also likely to be on the agenda between the two men is the fate of <b>David Hicks</b>, an Australian arrested in Afghanistan more than five years ago who is currently being held without charges in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->http://au.news.yahoo.com/070223/21/12ixk.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday February 24, 09:42 AM
<b>Howard, Cheney to discuss troop deployments</b>
[...]
Mr Howard will also ask Mr Cheney to ensure that Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks is brought to trial quickly.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->http://au.news.yahoo.com/061219/2/11ths.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday February 24, 05:58 AM
<b>Hicks was al-Qaeda golden boy: Abbasi</b>
Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks was al-Qaeda's "golden boy" who wanted to go back to Australia to rob and kill Jews, a former inmate has claimed.
Feroz Abbasi has written in a document for US government terrorism investigators that Hicks was also willing to undertake suicide missions, including crashing a plane into a building.
The former British detainee wrote that Hicks was the terrorist organisation's "24 carat Golden Boy", their top recruit, according to details in next week's Time magazine and published The Australian newspaper.
But Abbasi, who was released in 2005 without charge, has since signed a statement which repudiates everything he has written about the Australian.
In his original statement, Abbasi also wrote that Hicks wanted to "go out with a last big adrenalin rush".
"He once told me in Afghanistan that if he were to go into a building of Jews with an automatic weapon or as a suicide bomber he would have to say something like 'There is no God but Allah' etc just so he could see the look of fear on their faces before he takes them out," he wrote.
Abbasi was detained in Afghanistan in 2001 after he was found with a hand grenade in his underpants.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><b>ADDED:</b>
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070224/2/12j2k.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday February 24, 11:40 AM
<b>No stone unturned for Hicks: Cheney</b>
US Vice-President Dick Cheney says everything is being done by his government to have Australian terror suspect David Hicks brought to trial as soon as possible.
Mr Cheney was speaking to reporters after holding talks in Sydney with Prime Minister John Howard.
During the one-hour meeting Mr Howard stressed Australia's disappointment at how Hicks had spent five years being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba without having gone to trial.
Mr Cheney said Hicks had now been charged and the US Defence Department was now deciding whether a military commission would be convened to try Hicks.
"Mr Hicks is near the head of the queue," Mr Cheney said.
"We can't interfere with that process.
"It's a judicial process. We can't influence it. That would be a violation of the procedure.
"But I do expect that in the not too distant future that ... will get resolved.
"I can assure you we will be doing everything we can to deal with these matters in as expeditious manner as possible."
<b>Mr Howard said while he did not sympathise with Hicks,</b> he did stress to Mr Cheney his concern about the amount of time it was taking for him to be put on trial.
"I have asked ... that the trial be brought on as soon as humanly possible and that there be no further delay," Mr Howard said.
"I have put that very plainly and I have put that in the context of direct speaking of close friends."
During their talks in Mr Howard's Sydney office, the pair also discussed issues to do with Iraq, Afghanistan, China and Indonesia.
Mr Cheney will join Mr Howard and several senior federal government ministers for lunch at Mr Howard's official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, on Saturday afternoon.
Mr Howard said he expected to again raise the issue of Hicks during their lunch.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(Chances are high that Hicks is indeed an islamterrorist)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070223/19/12j28.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday February 24, 10:47 AM
<b>Cheney, Australia's Howard to discuss Iraq, Afghanistan</b>
[...]
Also likely to be on the agenda between the two men is the fate of <b>David Hicks</b>, an Australian arrested in Afghanistan more than five years ago who is currently being held without charges in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->http://au.news.yahoo.com/070223/21/12ixk.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday February 24, 09:42 AM
<b>Howard, Cheney to discuss troop deployments</b>
[...]
Mr Howard will also ask Mr Cheney to ensure that Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks is brought to trial quickly.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->http://au.news.yahoo.com/061219/2/11ths.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday February 24, 05:58 AM
<b>Hicks was al-Qaeda golden boy: Abbasi</b>
Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks was al-Qaeda's "golden boy" who wanted to go back to Australia to rob and kill Jews, a former inmate has claimed.
Feroz Abbasi has written in a document for US government terrorism investigators that Hicks was also willing to undertake suicide missions, including crashing a plane into a building.
The former British detainee wrote that Hicks was the terrorist organisation's "24 carat Golden Boy", their top recruit, according to details in next week's Time magazine and published The Australian newspaper.
But Abbasi, who was released in 2005 without charge, has since signed a statement which repudiates everything he has written about the Australian.
In his original statement, Abbasi also wrote that Hicks wanted to "go out with a last big adrenalin rush".
"He once told me in Afghanistan that if he were to go into a building of Jews with an automatic weapon or as a suicide bomber he would have to say something like 'There is no God but Allah' etc just so he could see the look of fear on their faces before he takes them out," he wrote.
Abbasi was detained in Afghanistan in 2001 after he was found with a hand grenade in his underpants.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><b>ADDED:</b>
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070224/2/12j2k.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Saturday February 24, 11:40 AM
<b>No stone unturned for Hicks: Cheney</b>
US Vice-President Dick Cheney says everything is being done by his government to have Australian terror suspect David Hicks brought to trial as soon as possible.
Mr Cheney was speaking to reporters after holding talks in Sydney with Prime Minister John Howard.
During the one-hour meeting Mr Howard stressed Australia's disappointment at how Hicks had spent five years being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba without having gone to trial.
Mr Cheney said Hicks had now been charged and the US Defence Department was now deciding whether a military commission would be convened to try Hicks.
"Mr Hicks is near the head of the queue," Mr Cheney said.
"We can't interfere with that process.
"It's a judicial process. We can't influence it. That would be a violation of the procedure.
"But I do expect that in the not too distant future that ... will get resolved.
"I can assure you we will be doing everything we can to deal with these matters in as expeditious manner as possible."
<b>Mr Howard said while he did not sympathise with Hicks,</b> he did stress to Mr Cheney his concern about the amount of time it was taking for him to be put on trial.
"I have asked ... that the trial be brought on as soon as humanly possible and that there be no further delay," Mr Howard said.
"I have put that very plainly and I have put that in the context of direct speaking of close friends."
During their talks in Mr Howard's Sydney office, the pair also discussed issues to do with Iraq, Afghanistan, China and Indonesia.
Mr Cheney will join Mr Howard and several senior federal government ministers for lunch at Mr Howard's official Sydney residence, Kirribilli House, on Saturday afternoon.
Mr Howard said he expected to again raise the issue of Hicks during their lunch.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(Chances are high that Hicks is indeed an islamterrorist)