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Australian in Guantanamo to serve 9 months

Australian al Qaeda foot soldier David Hicks was sentenced to seven years in prison on Friday but will only serve nine months, a U.S. military tribunal said. Hicks, who became the first war crimes convict among the hundreds of foreign captives held for years at the Guantanamo prison camp, had pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorism in an agreement with U.S. military prosecutors. The deal allowed all but nine months of the sentence to be be suspended, meaning he could be free by New Year’s. Full Story