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2006-07-07 Down Under

"I'm a true blue Aussie," Guantanamo detainee tells Howard

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Posted by tu3031 2006-07-07 11:58|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Been a jackeroo in the northern bush and ~~shagged~~ shorn sheep in the south.

There, fixed that one...

Posted by Raj 2006-07-07 12:19|| 2006-07-07 12:19|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm a victim of coicumstances, I tell ya!
Yeah,yeah, that's it. I wuz jus' on a walk about ... looking at da Buddha statues, da Blue Mosque, da poppy fields an' all of a sudden I'm here in Gitmo. I didn't do nuthing I tells ya...

Posted by GK 2006-07-07 12:59|| 2006-07-07 12:59|| Front Page Top

#3 "I keep tryin' ta think, but nuttin' happens!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-07-07 13:28|| 2006-07-07 13:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry sunshine, you converted to the RoP and that means we can't ever take anything you say again at face value. That taqqiya is a real bugger innit?

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-07-07 13:32|| 2006-07-07 13:32|| Front Page Top

#5 With apologies to the traditional Australian ballad, Wild Colonial Boy:

There was an Aussie Jihadi
Dave Hicks it was his name
He fought 'long side the Taliban
An idea that was lame
He wound up with the Gitmo Guyz
This former jackeroo
Now he reads his Koran and gets a tan
With nothing else to do

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-07-07 13:35|| 2006-07-07 13:35|| Front Page Top

#6 As my dear friend MSgt Han (ROK Marines) used to say, "They here, I find, they die". That eliminates all the kind of crap we're seeing now.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-07-07 13:39|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-07 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 A real, live nephew
Of me Uncle Bruce
Born on the 2-6 of Jan...
(with apologies to George M. Cohen)

Posted by eLarson 2006-07-07 14:36|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2006-07-07 14:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Tim Blair directs our attention to poor beleaguered Hicks' other writings:

In his letters to his family, Hicks tells them his training in Pakistan and Afghanistan is designed to ensure "the Western-Jewish domination is finished, so we live under Muslim law again". He denounces the plots of the Jews to divide Muslims and make them think poorly of Osama bin Laden. After reading aloud a letter from his son warning him to ignore "the Jews' propaganda war machine", Terry Hicks smiles affectionately and says: "I think David's told me off in his way there."

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-07 14:51|| 2006-07-07 14:51|| Front Page Top

#9 #5 With apologies to the traditional Australian ballad, Wild Colonial Boy:

There was an Aussie Jihadi
Dave Hicks it was his name
He fought 'long side the Taliban
An idea that was lame
He wound up with the Gitmo Guyz
This former jackeroo
Now he reads his Koran and gets a tan
With nothing else to do

I sit on me rug "True Blue"
With no barbi or lamb in view
I've complained to the chef
But he was with lst MEF
I bugger a ru for some stew!

....apologies as well.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-07 15:06|| 2006-07-07 15:06|| Front Page Top

#10 A true blue aussie? Then he will accept a couple beers isn't it?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2006-07-07 16:16|| 2006-07-07 16:16|| Front Page Top

#11 *happy sigh* I do love when Rantburg's poetry brigade gets up a head of steam!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-07 20:51|| 2006-07-07 20:51|| Front Page Top

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