A joke...a bad joke, but a joke. Bruce Australian Hicks Gets Nine-Month Prison Sentence for Terrorism
By Angela Macdonald-Smith http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081 <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=auf_p1E0.73I&refer=aust ralia> &sid=auf_p1E0.73I&refer=australia March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Australian David Hicks was sentenced to nine months in prison after pleading guilty to terrorism charges, the U.S. Department of Defense said. A panel of military officers recommended a maximum sentence for Hicks of seven years, which was reduced as part of a pre- trial agreement, the department said in a statement yesterday on its Web site. The sentence will be served in Australia as part of an agreement between the two countries, it said. Hicks, 31, pleaded guilty on March 26 to providing material support for terrorism as part of a plea bargain. The Australian and U.S. governments reached an agreement in May 2006 to transfer prisoners sentenced by military tribunals to jails in their own countries. ``Hicks will be transferred to the control of the Australian government within 60 days,'' the department said in the statement. Hicks, captured in Afghanistan in 2001, is the first detainee at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba to be charged under a 2006 U.S. law authorizing military commissions to hold trials for enemy combatants. About 385 inmates are held at the base. Hicks admitted to 35 facts that supported the charge of providing material support to terrorism, the U.S. defense department said. These included training at multiple al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and joining fighters at Kandahar airport and frontline forces in Konduz after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, it said. The Australian government has no power to commute the sentence, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today. ``The sentence would be carried out fully,'' Downer said in an interview on Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio, according to a transcript on the broadcaster's Web site. ``And I say that with a bit of passion, because we take a very strong stand against terrorism.'' Hicks will probably serve the sentence in a prison in Adelaide, Downer said. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. 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