Captured Australian al-Qaeda and Albanian KLA fighter handed over to US army

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[Pericles]

Friday December 14, 5:17 PM

Captured Australian al-Qaeda fighter handed over to US army

CANBERRA, Dec 14 (AFP) - Captured Australian al-Qaeda fighter David Hicks will be handed to United States military forces, the government said Friday.

"This will ensure that Mr Hicks is held in a safe location and will help facilitate access by Australian authorities seeking to interview him," Defence Minister Robert Hill and Attorney General Daryl Williams said in a joint statement.

"The capture of Mr Hicks raises a range of legal questions relating, among other things, to possible offences against Australian law," Hill and Williams added.

"If Mr Hicks has committed a crime against Australian law, the Australian government will do whatever is necessary to bring him to justice."

They said the government was holding ongoing discussions with the US government regarding Hicks.

Hicks, a 26-year-old Adelaide man, is being held by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance in Afghanistan after being captured last week while fighting for Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.

[Pericles]

Before Afghanistan ... Australian David Hicks in the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999. Photo courtesy: Channel Ten (Aussie al-Qaeda Islam convert fought in Kosovo with Albanian KLA)

I hope this Albanian KLA terrorist cadre does not escape like other Albanian terrorists do when taken into custody at the American base in Kosovo's Camp Bondsteel.

The murky aftermath of the so-called Nis Express bombing was further obscured when the chief suspect "escaped" in bizarre circumstances from a high- security American prison in the province. The detective who headed the investigation into the attack has said he does not believe the suspect, a Kosovar Albanian who is also wanted in Germany on manslaughter and attempted murder charges, left the American Bondsteel base unaided. "My opinion is he did not escape," said Detective Stu Kellock, former head of the United Nations Kosovo Mission's regional serious crime squad. "I thought a prisoner could not just walk away from Bondsteel. In my opinion he was taken elsewhere for questioning or something and I still do not understand why we, the police in the investigation who held jurisdiction, were not involved." UN sources believe the suspect, Florim Ejupi, who was wearing a bright orange prison uniform when he vanished and was said to have cut his way through four sets of barbed wire fences with a simple tool, had been working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). His trial would have been a serious embarrassment, they claim. UN officials want to know why Ejupi and three other men arrested on March 20 were taken on May 3 from their detention centre in Pristina, the capital, to Bondsteel, the sprawling base visited last week by President George W Bush.

BIN LADEN GATE

[Pericles]

Was this Aussie Kosovo Liberation Army fighter, a native English speaker, used to call in USA/NATO air strikes?? Was he one of the "English speaking Albanians" used by the KLA as a laison with General Wesley Clark (Ret.) and entrusted with his direct telephone number?

Dare to ask?

[Mixer]

Hang em both

[mvonfr]

Hang em both

I think it is the same guy, the Hicks fellow fought for KLA before. Perhaps,

Hang him twice

[Big Bunyip]

This bloke was a born-in-Oz dinky-di homegrown ratbag. Started reading the koran after splitting with his wife and the next thing you, he's sworn off pork, packed his bags and gone off to play with Allah's butt boys in Kosovo.

Let the Northern Alliance deal with him ("kneel down, please." BANG! One behind the ear. "Next, please"). Australia's got enough ratbags without bringing this dirtbag back.

[gfactor]

send him to a penal colony. Australia.

[BJClinton]

Don't hold back..how do you really feel?

[Landru]

Won't this be interesting to see how the Australians handle this...
I suspect the Liberals down there will attempt to take the guy back with a slap on the hand, a hug, & mug of Fosters.
Then turn around & try to shame the USA into doing likewise??
They try pulling that kinda crap & they'll be asking for some real woe from the Yanks in flyover.

...just the kind of shameless grandstanding their Liberals would do, too.

[Pericles]

The Captured Australian al-Qaeda and Albanian KLA fighter handed over to US army are one and the same.

[Pericles]

fyi 1&2

[Pericles]

fyi 1&2

[vooch]

I'd be interested in seeing the Clintonistas explain how is it that they were helping the KLA mujhadeen in 1998-99 and now at least one of their fighters turns up with Al-Queeda.

Clinton and his Humanitarian Warriors sure have some explaining to do

[Landru]

"I'd be interested in seeing the Clintonistas explain how is it that they were helping the KLA mujhadeen in 1998-99 and now at least one of their fighters turns up with Al-Queeda."

Sure; count me in, too.
That'd be as creative a line of psychobabble as any we'd ever heard before, vooch.
Then the whole point becomes; since when had the Humanitarian Warriors & braintrust behind Clintigula's Meals on Wheels fiascos ever had to explain anything to anyone of any sort anyway?
Really, when?

Don't think for a minute the Aussie Liberal is one iota different than our own, "Stateside Model," either.
Full of Kumbuya Krap, one & all.
If anything?
Methinks the Aussie Leftist is worse than our's, "is."

...& here it was thought all along US Leftists were the worst; geshhh. {g}

[Honorary Serb]

I'd be interested in seeing the Clintonistas explain how is it that they were helping the KLA mujhadeen in 1998-99 and now at least one of their fighters turns up with Al-Qaeda.

There are KNOW Al Qaeda "fighters" with the UCK in FYR Macedonia right now!! And "Bosnians" with al Qaeda in Afghanistan!

Besides that, clinton knew that he was in cahoots with Binny Boy in Bosnia (and later in Kosovo) from the early 1990s on. He has no explaining to do to his Third Way minions--it's old news to them. He just has some explaining to do to The Rest of Us!!!

[Hoplite]

Yawn.

Perhaps you can arrange a meeting between Hicks and Captain Dragan (also Australian...)

[Pericles]

Did that Serbian-Australian named Captain Dragan belong to a US/NATO backed organization like the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK/KLA) and al-Qaeda that ATTACKED THE HEART of America at any time???

DID ANY SERBIAN?YUGOSLAVIAN DO TO AMERICA WHAT THOSE MUSLIMS DID TO US?

Of all people, the Yugoslav Serbs had a reason to want to attack the USA (the USA bombed them for 78 days under Clinton) and the Muslims should be in love with America (we armed and trained them and in the Balkans served as their de facto air force) yet it was the very same forces of Islam that Yugoslavia was fighting that we America was helping that carried out 9/11 and a lot more on us.

Captain Dragan nor any Serb did anything to harm America.

You keep yawning, I will keep posting.

[vooch]

damn that's good agit-prop Hoplite. Take witness testimony from horrific crimes in 1940's Latvia and effortlessly segue to Bosnia.

Clever for mobilizing the sheeple to mindless bloodlust, but really not what FR's think of as responsible journalism.

what about Abdic ?
what about condemning the anti-KLA Albanians murdered 4 days ago in a drive by shooting (Commander Remi's MO)
what about offering some evidence that SPS was a 'massive vote fraud machine'
what about responding to query re: how can refusing to vote and not allowing others to vote be non-violent
what about the detailed list of the Albanian victims of the KLA/NATO ?
what about some reponse to the statistics that murder rate has gone up fourfold since Kfor let the KLA loose upon the population of Kosovo and Metohija ?

[Hoplite]

THOSE MUSLIMS

That, in two words, is your entire problem, Pericles.

You'll figure it out in due time.

[mikhailovich]

Fry them. I tell you who needs to be watched hard - is the Nation of Islam, right here in the US.

I saw them rallying on CSPAN and making excuses for Osama, while taking potshots at the US government. Serious inside risk to this nation. Very serious.