Skip Nav | Home | Mobile | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

World

Silence Broken David Hicks tells all - Afghanistan, Guantanamo, politics, guilt.

Liberal Demockracey | 04.04.2007 04:06 | Analysis | Repression | Terror War | World

1. Why I made a guilty plea 2. The guilty plea: how I advised David 3. My island home: first weeks at Guantanamo 4. Ten torture techniques in 12 months 5. Solitary confinement was one thing, just don't get me started on the food 6. I never met a DFAT official I didn't like. Come to think of it, I never met a DFAT official

Special Edition: David Hicks tells all - Afghanistan, Guantanamo, politics, guilt, and redemption

Because we live in a true Liberal democracy, we’ve decided to publish a special edition. A special David Hicks edition.

Containing 21 stories, we present the inside David Hicks story -- by the man himself and by those key figures around him, including his father Terry and Australian Attorney General Phillip Ruddock.

We hope you find this special edition useful in understanding the important legal, political and societal issues in the Hicks case.

It won’t take long to read (because we live in a true liberal democracy).

Because we live in a true Liberal democracy, we’ve decided to publish a special edition. A special David Hicks edition.


The Hicks Case
1. Why I made a guilty plea
2. The guilty plea: how I advised David
3. My island home: first weeks at Guantanamo
4. Ten torture techniques in 12 months
5. Solitary confinement was one thing, just don't get me started on the food
6. I never met a DFAT official I didn't like. Come to think of it, I never met a DFAT official
7. Afternoon tea with Osama: My thoughts on a terrorist mastermind
8. The orange people: The daily grind of Guantanamo
9. After three years in solitary, I lost my mind on a Tuesday
10. Things my son has told me
11. Afghani diary: training for Al-Qaeda, a day by day account
12. How a shy Adelaide boy became an international political pawn
13. The real story of my long hair and those prison pyjamas
14. What the US Senator said when he saw me in chains
15. What the judge said I couldn’t say and when I couldn’t say it
16. How I’ll be voting in this year’s election
17. Why even Adelaide was better than Guantanamo
18. Gitmo diet: How to lose 30 pounds in a month
19. The thrill of war: my Afghan adventure
20. On release: why I'm not planning to take my revenge on the West
Comments
21. Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups

The Hicks Case

1. Why I made a guilty plea


David Hicks writes:






























Back to Top
2. The guilty plea: how I advised David


Major Michael Mori writes:
















































Back to Top
3. My island home: first weeks at Guantanamo


David Hicks writes:




















Back to Top
4. Ten torture techniques in 12 months


David Hicks writes


















































Back to Top
5. Solitary confinement was one thing, just don't get me started on the food


David Hicks writes:












































































Back to Top
6. I never met a DFAT official I didn't like. Come to think of it, I never met a DFAT official


David Hicks writes:




















Back to Top
7. Afternoon tea with Osama: My thoughts on a terrorist mastermind


David Hicks writes:










































Back to Top
8. The orange people: The daily grind of Guantanamo


David Hicks writes:
































Back to Top
9. After three years in solitary, I lost my mind on a Tuesday


David Hicks writes:






















Back to Top
10. Things my son has told me


Terry Hicks writes:












































Back to Top
11. Afghani diary: training for Al-Qaeda, a day by day account


David Hicks writes:




























Back to Top
12. How a shy Adelaide boy became an international political pawn


Phillip Ruddock writes:




































Back to Top
13. The real story of my long hair and those prison pyjamas


David Hicks writes:




















Back to Top
14. What the US Senator said when he saw me in chains


David Hicks writes:


























Back to Top
15. What the judge said I couldn’t say and when I couldn’t say it


David Hicks writes:
























Back to Top
16. How I’ll be voting in this year’s election


David Hicks writes:














































Back to Top
17. Why even Adelaide was better than Guantanamo


David Hicks writes:




















































































































Back to Top
18. Gitmo diet: How to lose 30 pounds in a month


By David Hicks












































Back to Top
19. The thrill of war: my Afghan adventure


David Hicks writes:










































































Back to Top
20. On release: why I'm not planning to take my revenge on the West


David Hicks writes:








































Back to Top

Comments

21. Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups



Malcolm Fraser writes:









Barry Humphries writes:



Robert Richter writes:





Andrew Bolt writes:













John Howard writes:

A 73 year old migrant waits for an overdue privatised bus on an unprofitable route to take her to compulsory English lessons instead of caring for her grandchildren while their parents are working unpaid casual overtime in a factory that is failing to compete with a flood of deliberately unregulated imports....ah Liberal democracy !




...............

Liberal Demockracey

Comments

Hide the following 2 comments

US Supreme Court refuses to hear Guantánamo appeals

04.04.2007 07:07

The US Supreme Court decided in a 6-3 vote Monday not to hear appeals from two groups of prisoners seeking to challenge in federal court their incarceration in the Guantánamo Bay prison camp. The prisoners have been held for as many as five years at the notorious prison and been placed outside the protection of both US and international law.

 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/supr-a04.shtml

Tom Carter


Parents of 'American Taliban' plead for release after Hicks deal

04.04.2007 21:41

The parents of "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh have called on US President George W Bush to free their son, contrasting his treatment with Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.

Lawyers for Lindh's family have told a press conference they will file a petition with Mr Bush and the Justice Department, calling for the 26-year-old's 20-year sentence to be commuted.

They claim Lindh's sentence is unduly harsh compared to the nine-month term Hicks received at a US military hearing last week which saw him agree to plead guilty to a terrorism charge.

"Given the result in the Hicks case we are filing with the President and the Department of Justice a request for commutation of John Walker Lindh's sentence," lawyer Jim Brosnahan said.

"It is very simple. It is a question of proportionality, it is a question of fairness."

Lindh was detained in Afghanistan in December 2001 while fighting for the Taliban against the Northern Alliance forces in the wake of the US-led invasion of the country.

In 2002 he pleaded not guilty to a 10-count indictment which included charges of providing support to foreign terrorist organisations as well as contributing services to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

In a later plea deal, however, all terrorist-related charges were dropped in exchange for Lindh pleading guilty to two counts of serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons.

He was jailed for 20 years without parole in October 2002 and is currently being held at the Supermax maximum-security federal prison in Colorado.

Lindh's mother Marilyn Walker says her son has never fought against US forces and never endorsed terrorism.

"We hope that President Bush will respond today with sympathy and compassion," she said.

"We ask President Bush to please commute John's prison sentence.

"John has been in prison for more than five years and it is time for him to come home."

Lindh's father, Frank Lindh, says his son had been wrongly accused of fighting against America and being involved in terrorism.

"We really do hope the President will commute John's sentence and allow him to come home," he said.

Mr Brosnahan says Lindh has been a victim of the climate of fear that gripped the United States in the months following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

"The time following 9/11 was a time of tremendous turmoil, of concern and worry," he said.

"And there was a feeling that anybody connected to the Taliban should be treated very harshly.

"And John was treated very harshly."

 http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1890216.htm

Parrot Press


Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

/regional publish include --> /regional search include -->

World Topics

Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Server Appeal Radio Page Video Page Indymedia Cinema Offline Newsheet

secure Encrypted Page

You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.

If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech