http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/davidhicks/ en-us Sun, 4 Jan 2009 02:07:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158325/posts DAVID Hicks is to cash in on his notoriety with a book deal that could pay a six-figure advance. Terry Hicks, father of the former Guantanamo Bay inmate, said a book was in the pipeline. David Hicks's Adelaide-based lawyer, David McLeod, said he had been inundated with expressions of interest. Literary agents said publishers would pay six figures because public interest in Hicks had not waned since he was released a year ago. ..... Hicks cannot profit from any book sales, but his father can. Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158325/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 02:07:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946024/posts DAVID Hicks's family is already bickering over the spoils of his notoriety, delaying a longed-for reunion with his children. Backers of the newly freed terrorism supporter yesterday lashed out at his former wife, Jodie Sparrow, for trying to cash in with her own media deal covering Hicks's contact with histwo teenage children, Bonnie and Terry. Hicks had wanted his children to be among the first people he saw after his release from Adelaide's Yatala prison on Saturday. But his lawyer, David McLeod, told The Australian that Hicks had shied away for fear the emotional reunion would be filmed. "He was... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946024/posts#comment Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:16:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946022/posts DAVID Hicks should not apologise for his actions because he has done nothing wrong, his father Terry said yesterday. Amid national controversy over David's apparent lack of remorse following his release from Yatala prison on Saturday, Mr Hicks backed the decision not to apologise. "What has he got to apologise for?" he said. "He has done nothing wrong; he was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Mr Hicks, who just days ago indicated his son would say sorry to the Australian public, said David wrote a number of drafts of the statement read out by his lawyer David... Adelaide Advertiser http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946022/posts#comment Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:13:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945735/posts A DEFIANT David Hicks was in hiding last night after refusing to apologise for working with Islamic terror groups responsible for killing Australians. Hicks, 32, looking robust and with shoulder-length hair, walked out of Adelaide's Yatala Prison yesterday morning after nearly six years behind bars. Almost a dozen police cars and motorbikes held back traffic and a no-fly zone grounded helicopters as Hicks made a quick getaway. A relative in a Victorian-registered car took him to the first of a series of secret safe houses. As he was taken away, federal police refused to say if they had authorised Hicks... Sunday Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945735/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:25:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945405/posts ADELAIDE, Australia - Confessed terror supporter David Hicks was released from an Australian prison Saturday after completing a U.S.-imposed sentence for aiding al-Qaida. Hicks became the first person convicted at a U.S. war crimes trial since World War II after he pleaded guilty in March to providing material support to a terrorist organization. AP via MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945405/posts#comment Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:32:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945362/posts Confessed terrorism supporter David Hicks has been released from Adelaide's Yatala Prison. Mr Hicks did not stop to speak to reporters, instead he was driven from the facility. His lawyer David McLeod read a statement on his behalf. In it 32-year-old Mr Hicks apologised for not appearing before the media himself, but said that he was not strong enough. He has also agreed not to talk to the media about some matters before the end of next March, as part of his conditions of release from Guantanamo Bay. "It is my intention to honour this agreement as I don't... Australian Broadcasting Corp. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945362/posts#comment Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:36:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859292/posts A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution. Judge Richard Posner, a supposedly liberal-leaning jurist regarded by many as a future US Supreme Court candidate, said traditional concepts of criminal justice were inadequate to deal with the terrorist threat and the US had "over-invested" in them. His proposed "big brother" solutions flabbergasted delegates at the Australian Bar Association's biennial conference, where David Hicks's lawyer, Major Michael Mori,... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859292/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:41:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836541/posts Excerpt - A jet transporting the Australian convicted terrorism supporter David Hicks has landed at the RAAF's Edinburgh base in Adelaide. The aircraft landed at a 9:45am ACST (10:15am AEST). It pulled up near the air base terminal building and two people, believed to be Customs officers, boarded the jet. South Australia's elite police group Star Force will transfer Hicks to Yatala Prison in a convoy of vehicles once he has been processed by Customs at the base in Adelaide's north. Hicks will then be put into a solitary confinement cell in Division G, the highest security prison ward in... Australia Broadcasting Corp. (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836541/posts#comment Sun, 20 May 2007 01:44:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810124/posts SUPPORTERS of David Hicks should remember he is an admitted terrorist supporter who fought against his countrymen, Treasurer Peter Costello says. Mr Costello's comments came as Hicks' lawyers said their client will attempt to live a normal existence on his return to Australia and release from jail. Hicks, who spent five years in a US military prison after he was captured in Afghanistan in late 2001, pleaded guilty to a charge of giving material support to terrorism last week. Under a plea deal negotiated between Hicks' lawyers and the US military commission, he will be returned to Australia from Guantanamo... news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810124/posts#comment Sun, 1 Apr 2007 12:11:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808065/posts DAVID Hicks, already facing the possibility of 20 years' jail on terrorism charges in the US, is the subject of a new investigation by the Indian Government over his attacks on their armed forces in Kashmir. The investigation has been triggered by disclosures in American prosecution files about the involvement of Hicks with a terrorist group that has killed thousands of people in the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir. The prosecution file states that the former kangaroo skinner and father of two who converted to Islam joined the terror group Lashkar-e-Toiba in Pakistan, travelled to the border with Indian Kashmir... News Australia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808065/posts#comment Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:58:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807922/posts Do you believe David Hicks is guilty as charged? Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807922/posts#comment Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:39:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807921/posts Do you believe David Hicks is guilty as charged? Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807921/posts#comment Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:39:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807213/posts TERROR suspect David Hicks has pleaded guilty at a hearing at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807213/posts#comment Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:58:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793810/posts UPPER House MP Bernie Finn has launched an attack on accused Australian terror suspect David Hicks, saying people were trying to turn him into a national living treasure. "I must offer a word of caution to those seeking to elevate Hicks to national hero status," Mr Finn told State Parliament. "David Hicks was not in Afghanistan to judge the Kabul beach babe contest. "He was there fighting for one of the most oppressive regimes on earth, which is and was a supporter and promoter of terrorism both locally and internationally. Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793810/posts#comment Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:42:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778456/posts The U.S. military prepared new charges Friday against three of the best-known detainees at Guantanamo Bay — a key step toward resuming the military tribunals for terrorism suspects that were halted by the U.S. Supreme Court last year. Authorities drafted new charges — including murder, conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism — against Canadian Omar Khadr, Australian David Hicks and Salim Ahmed Hamdan of Yemen, said Air Force Col. Morris Davis, chief prosecutor in the Guantanamo war crimes trials. Under military rules, the charges are not considered formally filed against the detainees until they are approved by a U.S.... AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778456/posts#comment Sat, 3 Feb 2007 05:10:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691137/posts AUSTRALIAN terrorist suspect David Hicks definitely will not face the death penalty if found guilty by a US military commission, new US Ambassador Robert McCallum said today. But Mr McCallum said Hicks, who has been in US custody for four-and-a-half years, could expect a long wait until his hearing. Mr McCallum, who took up his Australian posting last week, said the US Congress would decide sometime after September how to proceed with the military commission process following a court ruling that the set-up was unlawful. "The rule of law, international established law, the law of war, allows the detention of... news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691137/posts#comment Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:05:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658252/posts THE Federal Government today rejected calls for David Hicks to be returned home after The United States' highest court found the military commissions set to try the Australian terror suspect were unlawful. Prime Minister John Howard urged US authorities to find another forum to try Hicks, saying he had no sympathy for the Adelaide-born man accused of training as a terrorist with al-Qaeda. Hicks' father, lawyers and politicians demanded Hicks be brought home after the US Supreme Court ruled overnight that the military commissions set up to try Guantanamo Bay detainees were unlawful. The Supreme Court justices voted five to... news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1658252/posts#comment Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:35:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657850/posts SYDNEY, Australia — A lawyer for an Australian terror suspect detained at Guantanamo Bay expressed satisfaction Friday over a U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down proposed military war crimes tribunals at the U.S. prison camp. "I'm obviously very pleased that the Supreme Court has finally set the record straight on these military commissions, that they don't provide the basic fundamental protections that are required at any criminal trial," said Maj. Michael Mori, the Pentagon-appointed lawyer for David Hicks, Australia's sole inmate at the U.S. military camp in Cuba. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1657850/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:21:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656693/posts AUSTRALIA'S Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks is no longer a Muslim. Hick was also publicly denounced by an al-Qaeda member at Guantanamo Bay for his lack of religious observance, a former British detainee has said. Rumours that Hicks had abandoned his Islamic beliefs were confirmed by British Muslim Moazzam Begg. Mr Begg shared a cell block with Hicks at the US military base in Cuba in 2004. Mr Begg, who was released in January last year after the British government intervened, wrote about his experiences in a new book, Enemy Combatant: A British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back. Mr... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1656693/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:15:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518614/posts SO it wasn't a political stunt. It isn't about Iraq. And the threat of Islamist terror right here is more real than many pretend. How real? If the police are right, they have saved scores of you from being blown up -- as people in Madrid and London were blown up. As NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney put it, the arrest yesterday of 17 Muslim men disrupted "the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack". He said explosive material had already been collected. Yet only last week, Prime Minister John Howard was pilloried by many for having warned of an... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518614/posts#comment Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:30:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/975971/posts A SYDNEY man allegedly telephoned the suspected leader of al-Qa'ida in Spain – Abu Dahdah – seeking help to move a "brother" and his family throughout Europe. The allegation about former Qantas baggage handler Bilal Khazal – made in documents tendered in Mr Dahdah's terrorism trial – contradicts claims by him that he had never spoken to the alleged terror chief, or even knew who he was. As more details of a network of alleged terror supporters in Australia emerged yesterday, it has been claimed a second Australian named in the Spanish court documents, Melbourne cleric Sheikh Mohammed Omran, was... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/975971/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:17:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343860/posts Australia's top investigators claim Mamdouh Habib trained as a terrorist before the September 11 attacks. Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib trained as a terrorist in Pakistan before moving to Afghanistan to serve as a mercenary with al-Qaeda, Australia's top policeman has told a parliamentary inquiry. Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said Mr Habib received firearms training in Pakistan in the days before September 11, 2001 to prepare him for a border crossing into Afghanistan to join Osama bin Laden's terrorist organisation. Habib was arrested by Pakistani police inside Pakistan on October 5, 2001. "The investigators formed the view... The Age (Melbourne) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1343860/posts#comment Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:09:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547479/posts TERROR suspect David Hicks isn't confident his British citizenship will secure his release from detention at Guantanamo Bay, his father said today. The British Government said today it would appeal a British High Court ruling two weeks ago in which a judge ruled there was "no power in law" to deprive Adelaide-born Hicks of British citizenship. Hicks, whose mother is British, has been detained by the US since his capture among Taliban forces in Afghanistan in December 2001. Britain's Home Office said today it would appeal the High Court ruling which granted British citizenship to Hicks, a 30-year-old Muslim convert... news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1547479/posts#comment Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:26:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541614/posts Australian at Guantanamo wins court battle By PAISLEY DODDS ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER photo In this undated photo released by the Hicks family shows Guantanamo Bay detainee Australian David Hicks. Hicks held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay won a court battle in London Tuesday Dec. 13, 2005, to be registered as a British citizen a step he hopes will secure his release. (AP Photo/Hicks family hand out) LONDON -- An Australian being held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay won a court battle Tuesday to be registered as a British citizen - a step he hopes... Seattlle Post Intelligencer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1541614/posts#comment Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:18:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539376/posts AUSTRALIAN terrorist suspect David Hicks, held in the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has won his court battle for British citizenship, which could pave the way for his eventual release. The High Court handed down its decision in London. Hicks, 30, has spent four years at the jail after being arrested among Taliban forces in Afghanistan in the wake of the US-led invasion prompted by the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. His lawyers have said they will argue that as a Briton, Hicks should be freed, as has been the case with all other Guantanamo inmates... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539376/posts#comment Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:24:34 GMT