Monday, March 26, 2007
DELAY ALMOST OVER
On January 11, CBS News examined - in their own way - the case of Australian Taliban member and Gitmo homeboy David Hicks:
Today marks five years without a day in court for David Hicks ...
And why might that be? ABC national security correspondent Leigh Sales:
The Hicks defence strategy relies on delaying the process for so long that the Australian Government will be forced to ask for the prisoner’s return.
Hmm. Anyway, despite his lawyers’ delaying tactics, Hicks is shortly due to appear in a Gitmo court. Latest word is he’ll make a deal.
UPDATE. Hicks pleads guilty.
UPDATE II. The Australian reports: “Hicks is short and overweight … He did not look unhealthy and certainly not ‘gaunt’ or ‘hollowed cheeked’ as his legal team have described him in recent months.”
UPDATE III. Alan Grey beats me to the punch!