Remember Hicks, the Australian reportedly fighting for the Taliban?

The legacy of Afghanistan goes on unreported in the Northern hemisphere. The fallout is read in the wonderful Australian newspaper.

clipped from www.theaustralian.news.com.au Howard and Cheney 'cut Hicks deal' THE US and Australia cut a deal to release David Hicks from Guantanamo Bay, according to a report published in the US today. The report, in Harper's magazine, quotes a US military officer as saying Hicks' freedom was negotiated directly by US Vice President Dick Cheney and Prime Minister John Howard. “One of our staffers was present when Vice-President Cheney interfered directly to get Hicks' plea bargain deal,” the unnamed officer told today's edition of Harper's magazine. “He did it, apparently, as part of a deal cut with Howard. Hicks, 32, is due to be released from Adelaide's Yatala Prison at the end of the year after agreeing to a deal in March. In return for a nine month prison sentence in Australia, the deal required Hicks to plead guilty to a charge of providing material support for terrorism.