David Hicks

Australian David Hicks pleaded guilty Monday to material support of terrorism, securing a symbolic victory for the Bush administration in the first war crimes trial since World War II. After a day of legal wrangling in which two of Hicks' three defense lawyers were barred from representing him, the 31-year-old Muslim convert and soldier of fortune told the military judge in a specially reconvened night session that he had aided a terrorist group.

The Australian government on Tuesday dropped its case against David Hicks in which it sought to block the former Guantanamo detainee from profiting from "Guantanamo: My Journey," a book he wrote about his experiences. Hicks, described as a former kangaroo skinner and Outback cowboy who left Australia for Afghanistan, was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001 and sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, the Associated Press reports . While in Guantanamo, Hicks pleaded guilty to providing material support to Al Qaeda.

Convicted Al Qaeda supporter David Hicks of Australia was transferred to a high-security prison in his hometown, Adelaide, after spending more than five years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After arriving on a private jet, he was taken to the Yatala prison, where he will serve the final seven months of his sentence, officials said.

A British human rights organization says the U.S. used military ships to secretly detain and interrogate terrorism suspects. U.S. officials denied using ships as prisons. The group Reprieve alleged that high-profile detainees, including American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh and Australian Taliban supporter David Hicks, were imprisoned on the vessels. Reprieve says the U.S. has used ships stationed off the Somali coast and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia to detain suspects.

Former Guantanamo inmate David Hicks remains a threat and will have to regularly report to police and stay indoors from midnight to dawn when he is released from prison Dec. 29, an Australian magistrate ruled. Hicks, a Muslim convert and former kangaroo skinner, pleaded guilty to supporting Al Qaeda at a U.S. military tribunal after being captured in 2001 in Afghanistan. He was held for more than five years without trial at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

A British human rights organization says the U.S. used military ships to secretly detain and interrogate terrorism suspects. U.S. officials denied using ships as prisons. The group Reprieve alleged that high-profile detainees, including American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh and Australian Taliban supporter David Hicks, were imprisoned on the vessels. Reprieve says the U.S. has used ships stationed off the Somali coast and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia to detain suspects.

An Alameda County Superior Court judge has ruled the state Labor Department cannot bar employers from hiring children for door-to-door sales work. Judge Winton McKibben issued a 90-day preliminary injunction in Oakland against the Labor Department in a case involving eight children and two firms, Bay Area Careers and Junior Careers.

Australian terrorism suspect David Hicks will make his first appearance before a U.S. military commission March 20, more than five years after he was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Prime Minister John Howard said Thursday. Hicks, the only Australian at the U.S. military prison in Cuba, was charged March 1 with providing material support for terrorism. He will be the first inmate at the camp to face a military commission for alleged crimes in the U.S.-declared war on terrorism.

An Australian who fought alongside the Taliban and later pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism was freed from prison today after completing a sentence imposed by a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. David Hicks, who was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001, served more than five years at the Guantanamo prison before pleading guilty to providing material support to the Al Qaeda terrorist network. He was sent to Australia in March to serve out his sentence.

The Australian government on Tuesday dropped its case against David Hicks in which it sought to block the former Guantanamo detainee from profiting from "Guantanamo: My Journey," a book he wrote about his experiences. Hicks, described as a former kangaroo skinner and Outback cowboy who left Australia for Afghanistan, was captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan in 2001 and sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, the Associated Press reports . While in Guantanamo, Hicks pleaded guilty to providing material support to Al Qaeda.

An Australian who fought alongside the Taliban and later pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism was freed from prison today after completing a sentence imposed by a U.S. military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. David Hicks, who was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001, served more than five years at the Guantanamo prison before pleading guilty to providing material support to the Al Qaeda terrorist network. He was sent to Australia in March to serve out his sentence.

Former Guantanamo inmate David Hicks remains a threat and will have to regularly report to police and stay indoors from midnight to dawn when he is released from prison Dec. 29, an Australian magistrate ruled. Hicks, a Muslim convert and former kangaroo skinner, pleaded guilty to supporting Al Qaeda at a U.S. military tribunal after being captured in 2001 in Afghanistan. He was held for more than five years without trial at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Convicted Al Qaeda supporter David Hicks of Australia was transferred to a high-security prison in his hometown, Adelaide, after spending more than five years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After arriving on a private jet, he was taken to the Yatala prison, where he will serve the final seven months of his sentence, officials said.

The first war-crimes trial here drew outrage Saturday from legal experts who described it as a perversion of the rule of law that may fatally discredit the Pentagon's already disparaged handling of terrorism suspects. Australian detainee David Hicks, whom prosecutors cast as a highly trained and dangerous Al Qaeda operative, will be out of prison before the year ends because of a secret deal cut by the Bush administration appointee overseeing the military commissions.

Detainee David Hicks will be home in Australia within two months and will be free before New Year's Eve despite a decision Friday by the first U.S. war-crimes tribunal here that he should serve seven years in prison in his homeland. Under a secret plea bargain, all but nine months of Hicks' sentence on one count of providing material support for terrorism is to be suspended.

Separated from terrorism suspect David Hicks by nine miles of water and a wall of secrecy, a dozen journalists from his native Australia gathered round a colleague's computer here Wednesday to learn details of his guilty plea -- from an official on the other side of the world. Pens scribbled furiously as footage showed Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer briefing lawmakers on Hicks' confession, which had been hammered out Monday between the U.S.

As the newly reconstituted U.S. military trial system takes up its first case today with the arraignment of Australian terrorism suspect David Hicks, a sense of deja vu prevails in the on-again, off-again effort to prosecute those accused of having a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. A ruling on the legitimacy of the tribunals is pending before the Supreme Court, which in June quashed an earlier system, calling it an abuse of President Bush's wartime powers.

Separated from terrorism suspect David Hicks by nine miles of water and a wall of secrecy, a dozen journalists from his native Australia gathered round a colleague's computer here Wednesday to learn details of his guilty plea -- from an official on the other side of the world. Pens scribbled furiously as footage showed Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer briefing lawmakers on Hicks' confession, which had been hammered out Monday between the U.S.

As a military judge Tuesday reviewed the specific crimes to which Australian terrorism suspect David Hicks had pleaded guilty, proponents of the Bush administration's war crimes tribunal here hailed the plea deal as a successful start in bringing America's enemies to justice.

Australian David Hicks pleaded guilty Monday to material support of terrorism, securing a symbolic victory for the Bush administration in the first war crimes trial since World War II. After a day of legal wrangling in which two of Hicks' three defense lawyers were barred from representing him, the 31-year-old Muslim convert and soldier of fortune told the military judge in a specially reconvened night session that he had aided a terrorist group.