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Nine months imposed by Howard’s phony deal

David has pleaded guilty to “providing support to a ‘terrorist’ organisation” - a plea bargain very difficult to reject by anyone in his position. His ‘crime’ is unknown in Australian law and was only recently created in the US. Even National Senator Barnaby Joyce said: ‘The only thing that is guilty here is the
judicial process under which [David] was being tried’.

David has been languishing in the hell hole of the US naval base of Guantanamo since 11 January 2002. He was condemned by the Howard government to 5 years of hell. Howard confessed that just a phone call would have freed David from this ordeal, but he refused to do so. In 2004, a military commission, a kangaroo court, was set under US executive orders to determine the fate of those charged at Guantanamo. In June 2006 the MC was found unlawful by the US Supreme Court. Initial charges against David were dismissed. In October 2006 US Congress approved of an unconstitutional MC, currently being challenged in the US Supreme Court.

Nevertheless, David’s new charge: “providing material support for terrorism” was introduced – a retrospective charge non-existent in international law. Howard’s phony deal with the US administration means David has been imposed ‘gag orders’ and another 9 months of imprisonment, not because of
David’s guilt but for Howard to have a smooth run before the next Federal election.

The first detainees arrived in Guantanamo four months to the day after the 9/11 attacks. From the opening of Camp X-Ray--the first site of imprisonment, notorious for its tin-roofed open-air cages--to the recently completed permanent prison known as Camp 6, critics have called for its closure. Even President Bush has said, "I'd like to end Guantanamo. I'd like it to be over with." Yet he refuses to close it because, he says, it holds detainees who "will murder somebody if they are let out on the street."

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