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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A gag order preventing an Australian who was held for five years at Guantanamo Bay from talking to the media for a year likely could not be enforced once he returns to Australia, Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said.
David Hicks, a former outback cowboy who acknowledged aiding al-Qaida during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, will be sent to a prison in his hometown of Adelaide within weeks to serve a nine-month sentence.
An American military tribunal sentenced him last week after he pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism — in the first conviction at a U.S. war-crimes trial since World War II.
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