Australian "Terrorist" David Hicks: 9 Months

Hicks has spent more than five years in U.S. custody, most of it on Guantanamo. For the first two and a half years he had no access to a lawyer. For the first five he was not tried. Now he's had his trial.

He's been sentenced to nine months in prison. Nine months.

And he had to agree to certain things:

Australian David Hicks pleaded guilty at the Guant‡namo Bay Navy Base yesterday to supporting terrorism in exchange for a nine-month prison sentence under a plea deal that forbids him from claiming he was abused in U.S. custody.

Can you believe that? A deal, in an American court, that stipulates what he can say? WTF?

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