‘The Australian’ on Hicks’ Gitmo
David Hicks at his Adelaide home prior to his incarceration at Gitmo
The Australian provides an interesting glimpse into Guantanamo Bay Naval Base prison where Adelaide-resident David Hicks, 31, has been detained for more than six years on charges of alleged terrorist activities.
It says: “Detainees are glimpsed pacing manically in their cells. Others look calm – as much as you can tell from a distance.
“Guards rove the galley constantly, looking through a sliver of thick glass in the detainee’s door every three minutes. The rapid inspection rate is kept up 24 hours a day.
“Camp 6, a 176-cell facility, each cell measuring 3.6mx2m, is where confessed terrorist David Hicks has recently called home.
“During this pre-sentence lull yesterday, Joint Task Force command escorted under tight security an Australian media contingent around the base’s notorious detention camps, situated on desertscape in a remote part of the Guantanamo Bay base.
“And the media also were told by camp librarian Maggie, who refused to give her last name, that Hicks’s recent reading material included magazines and books on saltwater fishing, the Great Barrier Reef and even surfing. She also claimed that Hicks was into “history, philosophy and intellectual topics”…
I would also recommend another article on the subject by Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian…please click here…
Janet writes: “FINALLY David Hicks, also known as Abu Muslim al Australia, aka Abu Muslim Philippine, aka Muhammad Dawood, has pleaded guilty to the charge of providing material support for terrorism. And now watch as the real PR campaign goes into angelic overdrive. His vociferous cheer squad will proclaim his innocence, declaring the plea was the only way for Hicks to get out of Guantanamo Bay.
“Before the book deals, chat shows, newspaper and television profiles get under way, it’s worth putting emotion to one side. Forget about the photos of an angelic nine-year-old with freckles and a crooked fringe. Forget about the ads where his father, Terry Hicks, declared his love for his son. Let’s come back to the inconvenient aspects of the Hicks saga, those that never make it on to a “Free Hicksâ€? billboard: the law and the facts….”
