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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Australia's attorney general warned Monday he was prepared to change federal law to ensure that an Australian who pleaded guilty last month to helping al-Qaida fight the United States cannot profit from his story when he returns from Guantanamo Bay.
David Hicks, who was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001, soon will be sent to a prison in his hometown of Adelaide in southern Australia to serve a nine-month sentence. His case marked the first U.S. war crimes conviction since World War II.
Attorney General Philip Ruddock maintains that federal law prohibiting criminals from profiting through media deals will stop the 31-year-old former kangaroo skinner from selling his story about meeting Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan, and his allegations of being tortured in U.S. custody.
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