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Guantanamo Detainee Returns to Australia

Al-Qaeda supporter goes straight to prison

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted May 19, 2007 9:33 PM CDT

(Newser) – After five years in custody at Guantanamo Bay, David Hicks is back in his native Australia, where the convicted Al-Qaeda supporter will spend the next seven months in a maximum-security prison. His family and other supporters spent years campaigning for his release before Hicks pleaded... Read full story »

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