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 SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Confessed Australian al-Qaida supporter David Hicks was transferred to a maximum security prison in his hometown on Sunday after spending more than five years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Hicks, the first of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees to face a U.S. military tribunal, made the flight from Cuba in Gulfstream G550 jet chartered by the Australian government with an entourage of Australian police, prison officers and a lawyer.
He was taken to the Yatala Labor Prison in South Australia state, near his hometown of Adelaide. Hikcs will serve the final seven months of his sentence in the facility's highest security wing, alongside serial murderers and rapists.
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