He will get a fair trail. Why wouldn't he?
Little more info...
1)
http://www.campxray.net/page7.html
In early 2000 David rang his father and told him that he was travelling to Kosovo to support the Kosovo Liberation Army. He was there for about 6 weeks before returning to Adelaide following the end of the fighting.
2)
http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/w...e.asp?nid=2679
He returned to Australia in late 1999 and claimed to have been through six weeks training, boasted he had been in the trenches, killed a few Serbs....
3)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3044386.stm
One day in 1998, he phoned his parents to tell them he had decided to join an organisation called the KLA.
"I thought it was an airline," his father Terry reportedly said.
But David Hicks was actually going to the Balkans, to fight against the Serbians with the Kosovo Liberation Army.
His parents said he had found out how to join up on the internet.
4)
http://www.brookesnews.com/032702ramseyhicks.html
Hicks found his way to Afghanistan when he fought with the Kosovo Liberation Army (ethnic Albanians) against the Serbs, converting to Islam and taking the name Mohammed Dawood. That al Qaeda had operatives in Kosovo fuelled suspicions that Hicks links with this group of terrorists is closer than he had admitted.
5)
http://www.dfat.gov.au/media/transcr...0720_nine.html
LAURIE OAKES: Now, David Hicks fought in Kosovo as a mercenary. Isn't that illegal under Australian law?
6)
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2003/542/542p8.htm
David Hicks
While David Hicks now languishes in a cage at Guantanamo Bay as an alleged terrorist without legal any status, he must be pondering past adventures when he was on the side of the angels.
Hicks fought for a while with the Kosovo Liberation Army, the Albanian Muslim outfit which played a big part in pushing the minority Serbs out of what had been the historically Serbian province of Kosovo.
In these endeavours he was an ally of the US and NATO. He moved to Afghanistan and joined the Taliban, which had received covert US aid in its push to power.
Hicks did not become an official enemy until the US turned on the Taliban after the cataclysmic events of September 11. Now he's marooned in no-man's land, unloved and forgotten.
Phil Robins
Toorak Gardens SA
7)
http://www.coolabah.com/oz/southafrica/index31.cfm
David Hicks isn't a nice person. He's a mercenary (the basest form of soldiering) who fought in the former Yugoslavia as part of the Kosovo Liberation Army before plying his trade for the Taliban. As a mercenary, David Hicks can be charged under Australian law. But it's interesting that the fact that he fought with the KLA barely raises an eyebrow in this country. But of course, we like the Kosovars. We even brought a whole bunch of them for an Australian holiday when the war was raging in their country.
8)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/20...783356110.html
Hicks is dubbed the "Aussie Taliban" by the tabloids, and has spent much of his adult life in a world where the rule of law meant very little, fighting unconventional wars in the Balkans with the Kosovo Liberation Army, in Kashmir with Islamic separatists and in Afghanistan with the Taliban and - allegedly - al-Qaeda.
9)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/National/story_50397.asp
Hicks has been detained without charge since being captured fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2001. He is alleged to have acted as a mercenary, also fighting for Islamic forces in Kosovo.
10)
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/02/20/ne...arificat.shtml
Hicks left school at age 14 and held a string of odd jobs, according to the Australian media. At 21, he was the father of two children. A convert to Islam, he fought in Kosovo against Christian Serbs, then took off for Afghanistan, where he was captured.