terror threat-very convenient, page-12

There are a number of possibilities. One is that Howie/ASIO/CIA are planning something to wet their chops; two is that any further Hickses along the way will be immediately arrested!
The yanks might be thinking that they'll have to release him to OZ but they've verballed our "government" to get their laws "in order" before his release so that he will have his chains back on again the moment he steps on this soil. With a bit of luck, he won't be tortured here as he was in Guantanamo!