Posted on 12/13/2005 3:24:34 AM PST by naturalman1975
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 who are British nationals.
Australian authorities have refused to lobby for his release.
this sounds like a flag of convenience.
Ping!
I have some beach front property in Australia that Hicks might like........complete with local Welcome Wagon volunteers.
As a newly minted British citizen,perhaps this clown will choose to settle in the suburbs of Paris.
I think we should agree to turn him over as soon as the Queen agrees to accept him on the front steps of Westminster Abbey.
If they want this clown they should have him in a highly publicised event.
Well, I hope the Home Office doesn't give me any sh!t when I apply for permanent residency in the next few days. If they were to send my application back as 'denied' I would be awfully upset seeings how they gave this guy citizenship.
Dopey Poms. No future in embracing terrorists...
On what grounds was he granted a British passport? Are all Aussies eligible for UK citizenship?
His mother is British. The child of a British mother apparently has an automatic right to register as a British national.
His mother is British. The child of a British mother has an automatic right to register as a British national.
LOL Aussy boy drunk many of you lot under the table, so what does POM stand for Prisoner Of Her Majesty or Product of the Mother Country.
<< 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 who are British subjects. >>
Sorry but the lawyers are comparing apples to an orang, here.
Wannabe mass-murderer, 'Abdul Abulbul Amir' Hicks, has been charged already.
And none of the actual British subjects so far released had yet been.
<< Dopey Poms. No future in embracing terrorists ... >>
Poms are the western world's most practised and accomplished appeasers of terrorists. Real close to being declared a hostile harborer of terrorists by the US Department of State.
Only their troops on the ground keep them off the 'harborer of terrorists' list - but they have a very much more limited relationship with US Intelligence than does even France. Let alone completely in-the-loop, Australia.
Heh heh heh...
Highball has pointed it out - Hick's mother was born in Britain. Anybody with a parent born in the United Kingdom has a right to British citizenship.
LOL Aussy boy drunk many of you lot under the table, so what does POM stand for Prisoner Of Her Majesty or Product of the Mother Country.
Neither.
The actual origin of the word is unknown, but it seems to be to recent to have its origins in convict transportation. Myself, I think the notion that it's rhyming slang (short for "pomegranate", rhymes with "immigrant").
LOL I think thats a bit to much of a mouthful for a Brit like meself to think up never mind a Ozzy boy.
LOL joking
Kinhell allen boy any chance of a bit of a Brit bashing and you jump in with both feet.
LOL I get the feeling you just don't like us.
Would I be correct in assuming you have Irish in you, and least you are not a complete and utter raving nutter like fusion.
I have to admit know your posts lead to a snigger more than a dear sir angry type times response from myself
Highball has pointed it out - Hick's mother was born in Britain. Anybody with a parent born in the United Kingdom has a right to British citizenship.
Not to nitpick, but I don't think that's actually true. I believe his mother is herself British, which is not the same as "born in Britain."
The United Kingdom has a much more complicated citizenship structure than we do. There are citizens by descent, naturalization, registration and more. All different categories, and that citizenship can or cannot be passed on in to one's children based on the category.
"British citizen by birth" means born in Great Britain to at least one parent who is a British citizen or a resident. They don't have anchor babies the way we do.
I think this stems from the colonial heritage, with the Commonwealth and all. It gets pretty complicated pretty quickly, but what it means in this case is that, as the son of a mother who was a certain type of British citizen, Hicks had the legal right to apply for (and was granted) British citizenship himself.
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