Cheney says Hicks will be among first detainees tried

[Judi Lynn]

Saturday, February 24, 2007. 7:01pm (AEDT)
Cheney says Hicks will be among first detainees tried

United States Vice-President Dick Cheney says David Hicks is likely to be among the first Guantanamo Bay detainees brought to trial.

Mr Cheney also says that if Hicks is found guilty, he will serve his time in an Australian jail and the time he has already spent in Guantanamo Bay will be deducted from his sentence.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard raised the issue with Mr Cheney this morning, saying he is concerned that Hicks has been held too long without trial.

Mr Cheney says it has taken longer than anyone would have wanted, but he says the process is under way.
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Mr Howard says he is no supporter of Hicks but people should not be held indefinitely without trial.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200702/s1856137.htm

[Judi Lynn]

1. No end in sight to Al-Jazeera cameraman's imprisonment at Guantanamo

Last modified Friday, February 23, 2007 9:10 PM PST
No end in sight to Al-Jazeera cameraman's imprisonment at Guantanamo

By: BEN FOX and ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU - Associated Press Writers

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- A TV cameraman is getting an inside view of life at Guantanamo Bay prison -- only he is unable to get out and tell the story.

Sami al-Hajj, of the Al-Jazeera TV network, was stopped at the Afghanistan border by Pakistani authorities in December 2001, turned over to U.S. forces and hauled in chains six months later to Guantanamo, where about 390 men are held on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

Al-Hajj, a 38-year-old native of Sudan, has been held in this U.S. military prison ever since.

He is believed to be the only journalist from a major international news organization held at Guantanamo.

Colleagues from al-Hajj's Qatar-based network and the Sudanese government want to know why he is being held, but the U.S. government is saying little. The military did not even publicly acknowledge holding al-Hajj until last April, when it released a list of Guantanamo detainees in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by The Associated Press.
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http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/02/24/news/nation/12_74_352_23_07.txt

[MissWaverly]

2. this is just flat out wrong

look at the GITMO detainees turned over to the Saudis, the Saudis released them saying there
was NO EVIDENCE against them, and they had been at GITMO for years.

Cheney, since when has he ever been right about anything?????

[bemildred]

3. When asshole?

You cannot afford to put those people on trial at this point, the truth about what goes on there would come out.