This is a long posting from the Australian.
It's about the "Australian Taliban," David Hicks.
The United States held Mr. Hicks without a trial for over 4 years. Finally charged with a crime and given a trial, Mr. Hicks entered into a plea bargain. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
Among the original allegations? Mr. Hicks helped plan the 9/11 attacks. Mr. Hicks was a immediate member of the bin Laden private circle. Mr. Hicks knew the shoe bomber, Reid. Mr. Hicks knew the American Taliban, John Walker Lind.
The United States agreed in the plea bargain that Hicks was a foot soldier in the Taliban fighting against the Northern Alliance. Not even fighting against U.S. troops. No connection to acts of terrorism committed by bin Laden or al-Qaeda.
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