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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - The United States and Australia have finalized plans to repatriate Australian al-Qaida supporter David Hicks from Guantanamo Bay but the timetable will remain secret, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Thursday.
Hicks will be sent to a maximum security prison in his hometown of Adelaide when he arrives by chartered jet as early as next week from the U.S. military prison in Cuba where he has spent more than five years.
The 31-year-old former kangaroo skinner must be repatriated by May 29 under the conditions of a plea deal struck in March. His case marked the first U.S. war crimes conviction since World War II.
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