| Tweet |
今日のTVニュースでも出ていたんですが、
2001年にアフガニスタンでつかまって以来6年もグアンタナモでひどい目に
遭っていたデイヴィッド・ヒックス（オーストラリア白人モスリム）に関して
ジョン・ハワードがチェイニーと取り引きしていたという話が出ました。
Davidは帰国と同時に刑務所に入れられて
（最初から有罪が決まっていた裁判前に、決まっていた
本来はまったく無実で、6年もぶちこまれるいわれもないと私は思うのに）
彼を支援するサイトには↓
David Hicks is due for release from
Yatala Prison
on December 30, 2007
http://www.fairgofordavid.org/htmlfiles/main.htm
と出ています。下の話にも出てくるように、
彼が出所するのは今年の総選挙（11月24日が投票日）のあと！
私は、数ヶ月前に野党第一党労働党の党首ケヴィン・ラッドが
わざわざNYCまで出向いて、“あの”マードックとお食事して
“ニッコニコ”笑顔で写真が出ていたので、
「ラッドが大ボスのお墨付きを貰ったな」と思っているのです。
（彼が今度の選挙で首相になるだろう）
そのせいか、それまではどれほどひどいことをしても嘘をついても
メディアはハワードを厳しく叩くことは絶対になかったのに
やれ世論調査でハワードや自由党の支持が減っただの、
色々彼を叩くようになってきているし、ホントあからさまなんです。
＃多くの市民は全然気が付いてないみたいだけど。
いずれにせよ、David Hicksも
同様にGitmoやGuantanamoやその他エジプトにまで
ぶち込まれて拷問にあったマムドゥー・ハビブも、9/11の犠牲者です。
すみませんが、今日は休みますので
冒頭に紹介した話関連、
みつけたサイトから原文だけコピペしておきます。
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Cheney, Howard Cut Deal For The Release Of David Hicks
http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/2007/10/cheney-howard-cut-deal-for-release-of.html
Howard Wanted The Hicks Issue Dealt With Before Election Began, BushCo. Were Happy To Help Out Their 'Man Of Steel' Down Under
If David Hicks was still being held in Guantanamo Bay, it would be just one more political nightmare for John Howard as he faces an uphill battle to win the federal election.
That Hicks was electoral poison for Howard was widely discussed in the media in late 2006, and many speculated that Howard was pushing his White House friends to get the issue off table, and out of the media, before he began his 11 month long election campaign.
Howard didn't want Hicks released, at first, he wanted him to face the military commission at Gitmo. Howard himself admitted that he could get David Hicks released from Gitmo whenever he wanted to, but he wasn't going to do that.
But by the time US Vice President, Dick Cheney, arrived in Australia for a controversial visit,
marred by 'Free David Hicks' protests, Howard knew he couldn't wait a month or two more. Hicks had to be brought home, and locked away somewhere, with no access to the media until after the election was over.
According to this story, Dick Cheney was more than happy to grant Howard's request :
US Vice-President Dick Cheney and Australian Prime Minister John Howard cut a deal to release Australian inmate David Hicks from Guantanamo Bay, according to a report published in the US today.
The report quotes a US military officer.
"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. I kept thinking: this is the sort of thing that used to go on behind the Iron Curtain, not in America. And then it struck me how much this entire process had disintegrated into a political charade."
Hicks is set to be released from an Adelaid prison in December. He agreed to a plea deal in March, where he would take nine months in jail, back home in Australia, in exchange for pleading guilty to the extremely weak charge of 'providing material support for terrorism'.
For years we were told Hicks was an extremely dangerous terrorist, a "murderer" according to President Bush, and "the worst of the worst" according to some of Howard's senior ministers. We were told he would be charged with being a member of Al Qaeda, attempted murder of Australian and/or American soldiers and being involved in the plotting of terrorist attacks.
In the timeline of events, Hicks became a fresh political nightmare for Howard in December, when claims of torture and mistreatment hit the headlines.
When Cheney visited Australian in February, Howard cut a deal with the vice president to get Hicks dealt with as soon as possible. Cheney returned home to the US in late February and kicked the process of getting Hicks before a military commission, on vastly reduced charges, into gear.
Within a month, Hicks was in front of a military commission, cut his down deal, and was heading back to Australia.
The plea deal caused controversy within the legal ranks of the American military because it was negotiated by the military commission's convening authority, Susan J. Crawford, instead of the chief prosecutor, US Colonel Morris Davis, who had previously expressed great confidence that Hicks would go down for his crimes and not surface for decades.
No great surprise that Susan J. Crawford turns out to have once been a senior official in Cheney's Defence Department, when he was secretary of defence during the reign of President George HW Bush, the current president's father.
Howard furiously denied he was involved in a plea bargain for Hicks, or that he had asked Cheney to do him a favour. He said the idea that Hicks finally facing the commission and being sent home to face a greatly reduced sentence, with the proviso that he was not allowed to talk to the media, had anything to do with the coming election was "absurd."
March 2007 : Hicks Admits To 'Backing' 9/11 Attacks In Plea Deal, Is Given Suspended Sentence
February 2007 : Howard Says He Can Get Bush Co. To Release Hicks Whenever He Wants To
December 2006 : David Hicks After Five Years In Gitmo : Unconvicted, Tortured, Broken
Dick Cheney Down Under : Inside The "Violent" Protests
Posted by Darryl Mason at 11:55 AM
投稿コメント全ログ コメント即時配信 スレ建て依頼 削除コメント確認方法
題名には必ず「阿修羅さんへ」と記述してください。
掲示板,ＭＬを含むこのサイトすべての
一切の引用、転載、リンクを許可いたします。確認メールは不要です。
引用元リンクを表示してください。