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Hicks drops Islamic faith
 DAVID Hicks has renounced Islam, his American military lawyer confirmed yesterday. Major Michael Mori declined to say why Hicks was no longer a Muslim, saying it was a personal issue for the suspected terrorist. What is he this week? A Jew or a Hindoo? Hicks adopted the name Dawood when he converted to Islam in Adelaide in the late 1990s. Maybe he's adopted Shinto and changed his name to Chirigami...
"Arrrrr! He must be killed!" Major Mori, who spoke to 300 delegates at a human rights conference in Melbourne yesterday, later condemned Australia's law officers. "Liars and thieves, the lot of 'em!" He described as "strange and foreign" comments by Solicitor-General David Bennett, QC, in the Federal Court that a general obligation for the Federal Government to protect citizens abroad "is simply something that the law has never recognised". Consulates are for bringing citizens cigarettes in jug when said citizen happens to get his/her scrotum/bosom in a wringer. They're not for springing people who're actually guilty of crimes in other countries, believe it or not. Nor are they for the purpose of retrieving citizens who've been caught fighting for the other side on the field of battle. "It's frustrating for me to see an Australian being abandoned and being pushed towards a cliff for this system that is not acceptable for Americans," he said. It's frustrating for us to see him still using up oxygen. Major Mori said Hicks might have to wait another three years to face trial if there were a Supreme Court challenge to the legitimacy of the military commission. Major Mori will speak to Victorian MPs today. Posted by: Fred 2007-02-28 |
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