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What a to do about David Hicks : Comments
By Neil James, published 8/3/2007The opinions on David Hicks offered by many Australian lawyers have not helped or informed: this is a dispassionate analysis of his actual legal situation.
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I partially see Hicks as a classic case of a religious follower being harnessed for a covert action program by an intelligence agency.
Bruce Haigh has refered to Pakistan's major intelligence agency (ISI). ISI, or Inter-Services Intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Services_Intelligence , recognises that the Pakistani military, due to its inferiority in conventional arms, has been largely forced away from open fighting against India in the endless disput over Kashmir.
Hick's is partially a product of Pakistan's recuitment drive for Kashmir. Partially using Saudi money ISI has supported a system of "Madrasahs" (Islamic Schools) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrasah#Criticism whose scholars may graduate to paramilitary jihadist training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
One network of such camps led by Osama bin Laden(in which Hicks trained) was associated with ISI and mainly funded by the Saudis.
These military training camps DO produce international terrorists but ISI has successfully sold the idea (to its Government) that they also produce unofficial, hence deniable, recruits to fight the Indians in Kashmir (shades of David Hicks’ career http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21201110-2702,00.html).
All this is what is called a (Pakistani) covert action program. An indication that such programs are not a CIA monopoly.
So Hicks, amongst other things was a sucker of (Muslim) intelligence professionals then thoroughly done over by US intelligence, seeking revenge for 9/11.
Pete
http://spyingbadthings.blogspot.com