No death penalty for these poor misunderstood diddums....
Well, there ya go...all of you can give them a Welcome Home parade.....
Think I'm kiddin'??? Anyone want to wager a little something that if and when they are returned here there will be demonstrations of support when they arrive???
Good to know we get to pay the bill for their crimes...
Rekon they should serve their time in one of the famous middle Eastern jails to get true salvation.
Camp X-Ray trials unveiled By Patrick Anidjar in Washington November 27, 2003
TWO years after launching its global war on terrorism, the United States is starting to shed some light on how it will handle the trials of the hundreds of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters kept in secret at Camp X-Ray.
The detention camp on the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been a source of international controversy since it was opened on January 11, 2002 - particularly as the estimated 660 inmates come from 42 different countries, including many such as Australia and Britain which have been strong allies of President George W Bush.
The inmates have not been allowed access to lawyers or their families, and human rights organisations have regularly complained about the detention conditions.
After lengthy talks, the United States and Australia have announced the first deal over the trial of foreigners at Guantanamo. But Britain remains concerned over its nine nationals at Guantanamo.
The US military guaranteed it will not seek the death penalty for Australians David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib and it will consider allowing them to serve any jail sentences in Australia.
Hicks, 29, is among a group of six who have been earmarked as the first to stand trial before a US military tribunal.
According to the US Defence Department, the deal allows for "a full and fair trial for any charged Australian detainees held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station."
Hicks was caught in Afghanistan in November 2001 while fighting with the Taliban against US forces following the September 11 attacks on the United States. Habib, 47, was detained as he crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
US authorities also promised not to listen in on conversations between defendants and their lawyers.
Defendants will also be allowed to remain silent without the court making any inference, the Defence Department said.
It added that "appropriately cleared" foreign lawyers could be used and they would have access to case material "subject to appropriate security clearances and restrictions" to be handled on a case by case basis.
Approved media and government observers may be allowed to attend the trials, and Hicks and Habib can contact relatives by telephone once their trials begin.
The families of the Australian pair said the US concessions were not enough and the United States remains under pressure from other friends over Guantanamo.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today reiterated his country's concern over the nine Britons held at Guantanamo, after Prime Minister Tony Blair failed to obtain any concessions during a London visit by Bush.
"I am concerned about the situation in Guantanamo Bay," Straw said on a visit to Baghdad.
His comments came a day after a senior British judge, Johan Steyn, described the Guantanamo detainees' imprisonment as a "monstrous failure of justice" and said they were being held in conditions of "utter lawlessness".
The US Supreme Court agreed this month to look into whether the Guantanamo detainees can make applications to the American courts over their cases. The government's case is that US courts have no jurisdiction, as the base is not US territory.
Lawyers close to the Guantanamo cases said the Australia precedent would encourage other countries to demand similar treatment.
Eugene Fidell, an expert on military law who is representing a US chaplain who was at Guantanamo, said: "Everybody else is going to seek the same deal, and I don't know how the US government is going to tell other countries, 'Sorry, we aren't going to do what we did for the Aussies
