Posted on 05/19/2007 6:44:32 PM PDT by HAL9000
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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 the state.
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Well there’s one off our hands.
What a waste of perfectly good shark food.
Yeah...THANKS!!! (sarc off)
Well at least we know you folks won’t be turning him loose tomorrow.
The Green Party in Australia is complaining that Hicks wasn’t returned home on a commercial flight. They must believe that business travelers and tourists want to fly along with a convicted terrorist.
I feel sorry for our Aussie freepers 500,000 dollars was waste on this piece of crap transport him
It’s causing quite a stir down here!
OH really so Aussies don’t like that flight was pay by taxpaper NO KIDDING
Wouldn't some ROPer prefer to have a girlfriend as a cellmate?
What happened, why wasn’t he in Gitmo until the end of the war? This sets a crazy precedent... doesn’t it?
Not tomorrow, but before Christmas apparently. It’s a pity he wasn’t brought back sooner so he could run in the election for the Greens.
I think the flight was so expensive because he’s put on so much weight in your gulag and they needed extra fuel.
/sarc
No, because he wasn't a Prisoner of War. He was a criminal and put on trial, found guilty (actually he plead guilty in the end) and sentenced.
As a favour to an allied government, the US government agreed to try Hicks first out of all those non-Americans facing criminal charges - that's why he's the first to have been convicted and sentenced. Others will follow. If convicted, they will only be released to other countries if the US has completed a prisoner exchange agreement with those countries that ensures they will serve their sentence. Australia and the United States concluded such an agreement last year.
Just after Christmas, actually. The non-suspended portion of his sentence, imposed by the US Military Tribunal ends on 29th December.
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