Disgusting: Hicks only gets a slap on the wrist
Jihadist David Hicks is only getting a nine-month sentence (via Jihad Watch):
A US military tribunal has sentenced confessed terrorism supporter David Hicks to seven years in jail but he will only have to serve nine months.And if indeed, why is he only getting so little? I think an appeal of this ruling is in order here, don't you?
The tribunal judge accepted Hicks's guilty plea as part of an agreement that limited his sentence to seven years in prison, in addition to the five years he has been held at the US base at Guantanamo Bay.
The deal allowed all but nine months of the sentence to be be suspended.
Hicks will serve the sentence in Australia and the United States must send him home by May 29.
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Lead prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Chenail had told the tribunal Hicks had knowingly sought out an organisation bent on attacking the United States and acquired dangerous skills.
The prosecutor, Marine Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Chenail, says Hicks freely joined a band of killers who slaughtered innocents.
"We are face to face with the enemy," he said.
Labels: Australia, war on terror
