Australian Senate Vetoes Hicks Inquiry

Hicks went to Afghanistan to fight with islamist forces and following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US, he was captured by the pro-US Northern Alliance.
In April 2007, he returned to Australia to serve the remaining nine months of his sentence. He was released in late 2007 and has since married and lives in Sydney.He subsequently spent five years in the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay and eventually pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism. MORE