US Military Charges Aussie Taliban

David Hicks is charged with providing material support for terrorism.

ABCNEWS: WASHINGTON Mar 1, 2007 (AP)— The Bush administration has filed charges against David Hicks, an Australian citizen suspected of aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan and the first terrorism-war era detainee to be charged by the Pentagon under new rules for military commissions.

The decision was made even though officials of Australia already had asked the United States not to bring such charges. Australia has been a steadfast ally to the Bush administration in its war on terrorism.

Hicks is a former kangaroo skinner captured in Afghanistan in December 2001. He has been held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for more than five years without trial.

According to government officials and documents, the Defense Department will announce that Hicks is being charged with "providing material support for terrorism."...

...According to a Pentagon official, who asked not to be identified because the announcement had not been made, the military is expected to file charges soon against another nine detainees.

Once formal charges are filed, a timetable requires preliminary hearings within 30 days and the start of a jury trial within 120 days at Guantanamo Bay, where nearly 400 men are held on suspicion of links to al-Qaida or the Taliban.

He should be sentenced and then held as POW until hostilities with the Taliban cease. Too many people that were released, after signing a pledge not to re-enter the war, have turned up on the battlefield.

David Hicks’ Wiki entry here. I was struck by the claims of abuse. Remember rule #1 of the al-Qaeda/Taliban playbook is to claim abuse even if it did not happen. Real cases of abuse should be punished, but accusations of abuse are part of the enemy’s strategy so they must be investigated carefully.

Remember what the Taliban does to people they consider enemy’s of Islam. No trial, no holding them, just murder.

See here and here and here and here too. Another graphic reminder below the fold. >
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Grapic images below. do not proceed if you are under 18 or under 100 for that matter.
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This is what the Taliban does to their prisoners. But hey, they did give him a rag to bite on as they cut him. I guess you can call that “nice guys” if you want to. You can hear their prisoner gasping as they kill him. They then hold up his head and shout Allahu Akbar. So remember this is what they do. They are appealing to our civility for mercy they would never grant any one else.
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Do not proceed unless you want to know the truth of the “noble savages” the Taliban. I wish I knew of another way to convince the apologists for the murdering terrorists. This is why it upsets me so when we are criticized. We just sentenced one of our men to 100 years in military prison at hard labor for a rape and murder. The Taliban promote rape and murder, yet somehow, they are seen as good? The world is upside down.
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The next image from this Taliban Video is worse than the previous ones.
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Now, just how much mercy should we showing to these people? Eh Dean? If every time we kill a Jihadi we create two jihadis, maybe we should have just killed all three to begin with. Isn't that what war is. Killing the enemy until you destroy all his hope and will to fight? Until all those who would join in the fight see it is futile?

These Mulsimes are killing Muslims. As a group, Jihadis kill more Muslims than anyone. They are the enemy of us all, not just the west.

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