He’s already been held 5 years……… term served.

Australian David Hicks has made a plea bargain limiting his jail term for aiding al-Qaeda to seven years, a US tribunal at Guantanamo Bay has heard.
Hicks will serve his term in Australia. It is not clear if it includes the five years already spent at the prison camp.

Hicks pleaded guilty on Monday to providing material support for terrorism, in the first case to be heard by the special tribunals.

The 31-year-old Muslim convert appeared with short hair and in a suit.

A military judge announced the terms of the deal at a hearing on whether to accept Hicks’ guilty plea.

The Australian, who has been held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for five years, was accused of attending al-Qaeda training camps and fighting with the Taleban.

The US and Australia have agreed that he can serve out his sentence in his homeland.

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