David Hicks may fight Guantanamo Bay conviction

LONG-TIME Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks is considering challenging his conviction by a US military commission following President Barack Obama's directive that all prosecutions be suspended and the controversial prison be shut.
Hicks's father, Terry Hicks, told The Australian yesterday he had spoken to his son after Mr Obama's inauguration to discuss how the former kangaroo-skinner might have his 2007 conviction overturned. "If it turns out that the challenge can be made, I believe it should be made, and of course David will go along those lines as well," Mr Hicks said. "But it could end up being that you can't challenge it. We don't know yet" Hicks was sent to Guantanamo Bay in January 2002 following his capture by Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan shortly after the US-led invasion. In 2007, he signed a plea agreement in which he pleaded guilty to providing material support to a terror organisation. He was returned to Australia, where he served seven months in Adelaide's Yatala prison before being released. But advocates for Hicks have long expressed concerns about the conditions under which he signed the agreement.
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Freed Gitmo prisoner sues US

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — Muhammad Saad Iqbal is a free man afterserving more than six years at the U.S. military’s detention facility inGuantanamo Bay, Cuba — without any charge.
Now, Iqbal is suing the U.S. government for unlawful detention.
“I am angry in my heart,” Iqbal said in a recent interview. “It’s easyfor the U.S. government to say, ‘There are no charges found and he’s free.’“But who will be responsible for seven years of my life?”