Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami » Hicks

Sick, just sick

sheikyermami — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:47:35 +0000

Hicks, aka Mahmud Dawood, darling of the glitterati:

Premier considers giving an al Qaeda trainee a $15,000 prize

Andrew Bolt – Tuesday, August 23

On a day when Australia loses its 29th young soldier at the hands of the Taliban, we hear that our very own turbaned freedom fighter, David Hicks, has been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards.

How do you think the Premier responded? “Take his name off the list or take my name off the awards”? Not quite.

Anna Bligh: ”I think it’s important that we not get in the way of that”.

If Hicks wins, he gets a $15,000 prize. That’s money taken from the taxpayers that the al Qaeda terrorists who trained Hicks wanted to kill.

These leftarded loons are endangering us all.

Like this asshole from the Times:

The left’s flagship The New York Pravda’s opinion declares that soldiers aren’t “heroes”, “warriors” or “brave”, and that it’s all just a “cult of the uniform”

Times writer William Deresiewicz disparages having support for the troops as the “cult of the uniform” and criticizes the use of the word “hero” to describe American Troops: (Fox Nation via eye)

Other news from Downunder:

Bobby Brown, Global Loon

The issue has been on the books for a couple of centuries – it is going to get steam as we become a global community and have to find a means for sorting out our global destiny... Why should Australia not be at the centre of what is inevitably going to be a global parliamentary governance down the line - if we human beings are going to live with each other on this marvellous planet of ours as we go on our joy ride of the future? Of course we are going to have make consensus decisions…. MTR today, August 22

Watch Brown for yourself

A Moonbat Hero is Something to Be

sheikyermami — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:54:32 +0000

The left would put this A-sole on a pedestal with Ned Kelly.

Former Gitmo inmate David Hicks’s autobiography was released this week

Update: David Hicks’s book is heavy on his ordeal at Guantanamo Bay, but critics are attacking the lack of detail about his terrorism training. Hicks’s book ‘deceptive, disappointing’ (ABC)

Mahmud Dawoud aka David Hicks: “I reluctantly signed up.”

Hicks is doing what the left does best – re-writing history. The fact that Brigadier McDade thinks so highly of Hicks should preclude her from judging any of our ADF personnel on the basis of a conflict of interest. That’s it’s being condoned by this Australian Government is nothing short of disgraceful. No wonder the soldiers in Afghanistan are so angry.

Army top brass just too eager to prosecute frontline diggers (Islam Monitor)

Brigadier Lyn McDade – the same military prosecutor who described the treatment of David Hicks as abominable. (click here to see what this subversive twat is all about )

Miranda Devine gags at the evasions and deceits in convicted terrorism supporter David Hicks’ autobiography, now being touted by publishers and reporters who should know better:

Then he just happened to go to Pakistan. A new mosque mate happened to give him some addresses. One thing led to another and he ended up in Peshawar on the Afghan border where he just “came upon” members of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

He met Osama bin Laden, a wealthy man, and it was all a boy’s own adventure.

An odd thing happened to Hicks when he popped out for milk (Andrew Bolt)

Hicks skips over his extensive LeT training in a couple of pages, mentioning only that he did “lots of walks”, befriended a goat and that the training was mostly “sport-oriented”.

Pull the other one.

The paragraph that most perfectly captures his attempt to suspend reality has him firing on Kashmir.

“I participated in this exchange (of gunfire) under the orders and supervision of Captain Ali. We did not fire upon Indian soldiers or any other people. We only participated in the symbolic exchange of fire.”

The consequences of this “symbolic exchange of fire”? Two dead children.

Perhaps Hicks’ book is a symbolic telling of the truth.

Our accidental terrorist next finds himself on the wrong bus, and happens to arrive in Kandahar where he mingles with the Taliban.

Somehow he decided to do an eight-week “mountain warfare” course. Then he applied for the “urban warfare” course.

Then, in August, 2001, he took a mysterious course in Kabul. All he says about that is, “Kabul was an interesting and intriguing place”.

He is at pains to draw a distinction between himself and “actual terrorists”, who were trained at “very small and highly secretive” camps.

Hicks, by contrast, says he was at “big, very public mainstream camps” receiving “very casual basic military training”. He had no choice. “I reluctantly signed up.”

Coulda happened to anyone.

Hicks & the Halal Burgers: The Sydney Moonbat Herald really looooves terrorists

sheikyermami — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:28:02 +0000

Andrew Bolt

You mean David Hicks didn’t train with al-Qaeda, enlist with the Taliban and shoot into Kashmir with Lashkar-e-Toiba, all of which he boasted of in a diary and in letters to his family?

So the Sydney Moonbat Herald seems to suggest, and sympathizes just a little too much:

A FREE man seven years after his arrest in Afghanistan, David Hicks (aka Mohound Dawoud) has signalled his wish to clear his name and remove his terrorism conviction from his record.

Hicks has even found God, the New Age way:

Mr Hicks had undertaken volunteer work at a nursery and environmental agencies…

Environmentalism – the last refuge of a scoundrel. Including fascists.

Update:

AFP waits as Hicks controls end

* Muslim ‘chaplain’ James Yee declares: “Hicks not a threat”

Verity Edwards/The Australian

THE control order restricting David Hicks’s movements may have expired yesterday, but the terrorism supporter won’t be completely free until he complies with a long-standing request to be interviewed by the Australian Federal Police.

Mr Hicks, who spent 5 1/2 years in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has so far refused to speak to the AFP, despite agreeing to be interviewed as part of his plea bargain last year. His lawyer, David McLeod, said while his client – returning to Adelaide from Sydney for Christmas this week – would eventually comply with the agreement, he was not ready to speak to the AFP.

“His psychiatric advice is that his rehab will be set back perhaps irreparably if he was subjected to further questioning at the moment,” Mr McLeod said.

A failure to attend interviews requested by Australian or American law enforcement and intelligence agencies could see the US Government “capture and detain” Mr Hicks.

In spite of the agreement, Mr McLeod said the AFP did not have the power to compel Mr Hicks to answer questions.

He said the controversial US military commissions, where Mr Hicks agreed to plead guilty to supporting terrorism in return for being repatriated to Australia, would have to reconvene to consider any breach of agreement before revoking Mr Hicks’s suspended sentence.

Mr McLeod said the US military would be unlikely to seek his return.

The Adelaide-based lawyer said Mr Hicks deserved his freedom because he had been a model prisoner in Australia and at Guantanamo Bay, and he had complied with his control order.

“Whilst what he did and what he is alleged to have done overseas is subject to conjecture, what we know is that since his arrest in Afghanistan he has been a model citizen,” Mr McLeod said. “His track record since that time should give the public every reason to be confident that he will return to society as an ordinary person.”

The 12-month, Federal Magistrates Court-imposed control order prevented Mr Hicks from travelling interstate without permission and using the internet and mobile phones freely, forced him to report to police twice-weekly and imposed a nightly curfew.

Mr Hicks moved from his home town of Adelaide to Sydney several months ago, where his father, Terry, said he was accessing comprehensive rehabilitation services.

He has been working part-time at a nursery and is believed to have a new woman in his life.

Mr Hicks’s longest public statement since the March expiry of his plea bargain’s gag order was in an internet video pleading for the AFP not to apply for a renewed control order.

Terry Hicks said his son planned to focus on improving his mental and physical health before considering whether to tell his story. Mr Hicks said his son was likely to remain in Sydney, where he has been able to live a more private life.

Additional reporting: Pia Akerman

Hicks not a threat: chaplain

‘Not a threat’: David Hicks (AAP: Tom Miletic)

A former United States Army chaplain who regularly counselled convicted terrorism supporter David Hicks at Guantanamo Bay detention centre says he does not believe Mr Hicks poses a threat to the Australian community now that he is free.

Mr Hicks was released from Adelaide’s Yatala prison on Saturday after six years in custody, five of those spent at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

He admitted training with Al Qaeda in Aghanistan in 2001 and joining with pro-Taliban fighters after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The Australian Federal Police successfully argued in court that Mr Hicks should be under a control order because he may be a danger to the public.

The order requires Mr Hicks to obey a curfew and report to police three times a week, but Muslim US Army chaplain James Yee says he does not believe Mr Hicks is dangerous.

“Any American soldier who has been through basic training has had 50 times more training than this guy,” he said.

Mr Yee left the US Army in controversial circumstances after being wrongly accused of spying.

Mr Hicks is in a secret location in Adelaide and has requested privacy while he readjusts to society.

Earlier, former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer said the United States handled Mr Hicks’ case badly, by taking too long to bring him to trial in a military commission.

He defended the former Howard Government’s handling of the case and says he has no regrets.

Mr Downer also said Mr Hicks should apologise for his actions.

Taliban “kangaroo-wrangler” foot loose and fancy free

sheikyermami — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:08:06 +0000

“Every other wrangler would say. I was mighty grand” (Zappa quote)

Taliban “kangaroo-wrangler” set free

Gitmo burgers are the best…

* by myself, I wouldn’t have no boss, but I’d be raising my lonely, dental floss…

He doesn’t even have a beard — of course he must have been “deluded” and is now on the “right track.” Soon, he will even tell us “his story.” Hey, he might even get a book deal and appear on Oprah out of all this. More on “his story”, including how he deemed Osama bin Laden a “lovely man” and took orders from him.

“‘Australian Taleban’ fully free,” from the BBC, (via JW) December 21:

An Australian former inmate of the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay is now a free man after Australian police lifted strict controls on his actions.

David Hicks spent more than five years at Guantanamo Bay without a trial before admitting to charges of providing material support to al-Qaeda.

In return, he was allowed in May 2007 to serve out the last nine months of his sentence in an Australian prison.

Hicks, a convert to Islam, was captured by US troops in Afghanistan in 2001.

The former kangaroo wrangler was the first “enemy combatant” held at Guantanamo to be convicted by a US military commission.

‘Still recovering’

The control orders limiting his movements expired at midnight on Saturday.

Australian police said they would not seek to extend the measures after Hicks made a public appeal to be allowed to “get on with my life“.

He was subject to a strict curfew and restrictions on his travel and had to report regularly to police.

His telephone and internet communications were also limited.

Hicks has admitted to training with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and meeting its leader, Osama Bin Laden.

The 33-year-old has said he is recovering still from his ordeal at Guantanamo Bay and is not ready yet to tell his story.

But he has said he will do so.

“My Jihad” by Mahmud Dawoud aka Hicks

sheikyermami — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:07:57 +0000

Discovered on Andrew Bolt:

Was it through sheer ignorance, or was the Sydney Morning Herald graphic artist pointing out a Jew-hatingconnection?Tim Blair discusses the possibilities.

* Hicks, darling of the deluded left, came out yesterday with ”let me get on with my life”- and the government complies. So what if he “took orders from bin Laden” and deemed the latter “lovely“?

Mahmood Dawoud aka David Hicks needs your help!

sheikyermami — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:57:46 +0000

* The Age is all too willing to provide him with a soapbox:

The halal-burger stuffed Hicks whines about his ordeal in Gitmo and how oppressed he is. Make sure you have a tissue box handy…!

* Newslink: the strangest thing from Khaleej Times Online:

Iraqi Sunni, Shias demonstrate in favour of US pact

“Please don’t leave, who will protect us from each other…”

Flashback:

Australia: Thousands hear US military lawyer for David Hicks

By Richard Phillips
5 September 2006

A recent lecture tour by Major Michael Mori struck a chord with ordinary Australians who turned out in thousands in Sydney, Canberra, Hobart and Adelaide to hear the American military lawyer for Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks.

Mori’s simple message—that the almost five-year incarceration of Hicks is a legal travesty and that the 31-year-old father of two is still in Guantánamo because Canberra refuses to demand his release—powerfully exposed Australia’s political elite. Since late 2001, when Hicks was arrested in Afghanistan, the Howard government and the so-called opposition Labor Party have cynically and callously used the Australian citizen to demonstrate their slavish support for the US-led “war on terror”.

On August 14, a few days after arriving in Sydney, Mori was invited to appear on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Enough Rope”, one of the country’s highest-rating television talk shows.

In an interview that extended for almost 30 minutes, Mori, who claims to be apolitical, explained the brutal, arbitrary and illegal treatment of Hicks and made clear that his opposition to Washington and Canberra was grounded in basic legal principles.

“I see myself as being very close to the middle where everything is supposed to be—equality, due process,” he said. “I just think the administration and the other side have departed so far to the extreme away from our basic values. I don’t think anything I’m saying—to give someone a fair trial—is some novel or radical idea.”

The next day Mori began a round of meetings and lectures that continued throughout the week. He was regularly hailed as a “hero” and “role model” who should “run for US president”.

The military defence lawyer addressed students at the University of New South Wales and later spoke to a standing-room only gathering of over 400 members of Sydney’s legal profession, organised by the New South Wales Bar Association and the Law Society of New South Wales. Twenty-four hours later he travelled to Canberra where he lectured to a capacity audience of 500 at the Australian National University and the next day addressed an 800-strong public meeting in Hobart, a substantial audience for the Tasmanian city.

On August 23, Mori and Terry Hicks, David’s father, addressed a rally of 2,000 in Adelaide and then led a march to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer’s electoral office, where they attempted to present a petition signed by 50,000 people demanding Hicks’s immediate repatriation and release.

Mori’s tour concluded on August 25 with a public meeting of over 1,200 people at Angel Place in Sydney, where he was introduced by John Dowd, a former NSW Attorney-General and state Liberal Party leader. Dowd told the crowd the Howard government had become “an international embarrassment” over its unconditional support for the US-led “war on terror”.

Mori, who received a sustained standing ovation, gave a power-point presentation detailing the violations of Hicks’s basic democratic rights and the illegal nature of the US military tribunals. He pointed out that while Hicks was incarcerated in Guantánamo, the Bush administration had released and repatriated over 200 prisoners, including Afghan Taliban members. Mori said Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, a former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban, was, in fact, now studying at Yale on a US student visa.

Hicks’s detention, he said, was continuing because the Australian citizen “had not violated any international law, but because the US had to invent charges and then create an unfair system that would rubber stamp the charges without question”.

“Every time the Australian government says ‘we cannot charge Hicks’,” he continued, “they are admitting that David has not violated any law. But instead of demanding his immediate return, they use this as a reason to abandon him.”

Mori punctured ongoing government assertions that his client was an Islamic terrorist and accused the Australian government of “blindly following” the US Defense Department and “deliberately rejecting overwhelming evidence that the military tribunal system was illegal”. He warned that the new system being prepared in Washington to try Guantánamo prisoners would not be any fairer and would not even begin hearings for at least another 12 months.

Isolated and deeply concerned by the popular response to Mori’s tour, senior government ministers, who have collaborated with Washington in denying the physical and psychological torture and other crimes being committed in Guantánamo, categorically refused to meet him. Instead, an ashen-faced Attorney General Philip Ruddock told the media that Hicks should be compared to a gang rapist and desperately claimed that he had been afforded fair legal treatment by the US military. Ruddock’s comments produced a rash of angry letters to the press denouncing both the attorney general and the government.

War crimes
Mori’s tour has served to underscore the yawning chasm between the Howard government’s embrace of the so-called “war on terror” and the most elementary legal principles. This divergence has increasingly brought Canberra into conflict with key sections of the local legal establishment.

Every state and federal lawyers’ body in the country, including the Law Council of Australia, has denounced the Guantánamo military concentration camp and the now illegal military tribunals. Former high court judges and other senior members of the judiciary concerned about the long-term legal implications of the Howard government’s refusal to defend Hicks’s basic rights have spoken out and demanded the Australian’s immediate release.

In the midst of Mori’s tour, Geoffrey Robertson, QC, Australia’s highest-profile human rights lawyer, delivered a special address to the National Library of Australia in Canberra, in which he warned the Howard government it could face war crime charges for “wilfully depriving a prisoner of war or other protected person of the right of fair and regular trial”. Robertson is a leading figure in international legal circles and has worked for the European Court of Human Rights and as a UN war crimes judge.

“The Supreme Court has now declared Hicks to be a person to be protected by the Geneva Convention,” Robertson said, “and there must come a point at which Australian law officers who wilfully authorise or approve an unfair and irregular trial of an Australian citizen become complicit in a grave breach of international law.”

“No doubt Australia’s Attorney General, Philip Ruddock… has merely accepted the advice of US Government lawyers that Guantánamo proceedings were lawful. From now on, that excuse will be unavailing,” Robertson told his audience. Needless to say, there was no response from the Howard government, and the corporate media virtually ignored Robertson’s speech, with only one daily newspaper reporting it.

The popular response to Mori’s visit also exposed the venal role of the Labor Party. That Mori, a member of the US Marine Corp, America’s military elite, has been able to reach tens of thousands of people through his powerful defence of Hicks’s basic legal rights highlights the party’s cowardly nature.

Ever since Hicks’s arrest in December 2001, the Labor leadership has marched in lock step with the Howard government, refusing to call for Hicks’s repatriation and attempting to present itself as an even more militant advocate of the “war on terror”. More recently and in line with Howard, Labor leader Kim Beazley responded to the US Supreme Court ruling against the military commission tribunals by demanding that Hicks be put on trial in an American civilian court.

None of the “opposition” parties—Labor, Democrats or Greens—have raised any suggestion that Howard, Ruddock and Downer be indicted for war crimes under the Geneva Conventions.

No doubt the Howard government will respond to the growing demands for Hicks’s immediate release in the only way it knows—with more slander and innuendo. But as the popular response to Mori’s public meetings and lectures makes clear, a definite shift has taken place in public sentiment that will only deepen in the coming period.