Article: SA: Hicks enters fifth year detained at Guantanamo Bay


AAP General News (Australia)
01-10-2007
SA: Hicks enters fifth year detained at Guantanamo Bay

By Steve Larkin

ADELAIDE, Jan 10 AAP - David Hicks, shackled and blindfolded, was frogmarched into
Guantanamo Bay five years ago.

The Adelaide man was described by Australia's then Attorney-General Daryl Williams
"as dangerous as a person can be in modern times."

Hicks and other Guantanamo detainees were "the worst of the worst" according to the
United States' then Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

US President George W Bush simply called Hicks and his fellow inmates "bad people."

But surely none of the politicians would have thought that five years on, Hicks would
still be detained at ...

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