Andrei.Hicks wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 11:59am:


You’re a Yarpie from the UK and have never been to war.

You don’t count.

David Hicks is more Aussie than you. Believe it or not, he now gets a vote.

Dirty Paki Khunt wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 12:03pm:


Funnily enough ive been to war as many times as you then....

Difference is, i dont pretend i have.

Howard Govt Knew Hicks Would Not Get Fair Trial.

And all the conservatives support this ???

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 12:51pm:


Holiday, my arse! When is he gonna publish those selfies he took with the AK-47's and the grenade launchers? Hmmm, I wonder...

Armchair_Politician wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 1:00pm:

Lashkar-e-Taiba[edit]

On 11 November 1999, Hicks travelled to Pakistan to study Islam[24][30] and began training with Lashkar-e-Taiba in early 2000.[31][32] In the U.S. Military Commission charges presented in 2004, the U.S. accused Hicks of training at the Mosqua Aqsa camp in Pakistan, after which he "travelled to a border region between Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Indian-controlled Kashmir, where he engaged in hostile action against Indian forces."[13]

In a March 2000 letter to his family, Hicks wrote:


don't ask what's happened, I can't be bothered explaining the outcome of these strange events has put me in Pakistan-Kashmir in a training camp. Three months training. After which it is my decision whether to cross the line of control into Indian occupied Kashmir.

In another letter on 10 August 2000, Hicks wrote from Kashmir claiming to have been a guest of Pakistan's army for two weeks at the front in the "controlled war" with India:


I got to fire hundreds of bullets. Most Muslim countries impose hanging for civilians arming themselves for conflict. There are not many countries in the world where a tourist, according to his visa, can go to stay with the army and shoot across the border at its enemy, legally.[33]

During this period, Hicks kept a notebook to document his training in weapon use, explosives, and military tactics, in which he wrote that guerrilla warfare involved "sacrifice for Allah". He took extensive notes on, and made sketches of, various weaponry mechanisms and attack strategies (including Heckler & Koch submachine guns, the M16 assault rifle, RPG-7 grenade launcher, anti-tank rockets, and VIP security infiltration).[34] Letters to his family detailed his training:


I learnt about weapons such as ballistic missiles, surface to surface and shoulder fired missiles, anti aircraft and anti-tank rockets, rapid fire heavy and light machine guns, pistols, AK47s, mines and explosives. After three months everybody leaves capable and war-ready being able to use all of these weapons capably and responsibly. I am now very well trained for jihad in weapons some serious like anti-aircraft missiles.[35]

In January 2001, Hicks was provided with funding and an introductory letter from Lashkar-e-Taiba. He travelled to Afghanistan to attend training.[13] According to Hicks' autobiography Guantanamo: My Journey, he was unfamiliar with the name Al-Qaeda until after his detainment in Guantanamo Bay.[36]

Afghanistan[edit]

Al-Qaeda were training people like Hicks so they could slip through the airport and not be racially profiled. An arab would get noticed.

viewpoint wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 1:23pm:



He was caught by the northern alliance trying to leave Afghanistan and he was unarmed. He never took part in the hostilities and was therefore not an enemy combatant. He was unwilling to fight against Australia.

Dnarever wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 1:39pm:
White guy training with terrorists in Afghanistan.