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Another One Broken

By The Daily Dish
Dec 14 2006, 4:18 AM ET

The Bush administration is doing a good job of rendering its detained terror suspects mentally ill:

After five years of detention at Guantanamo Bay without trial or sentence, Australian Taliban fighter David Hicks may be too traumatised to take a family phone call before Christmas.

With Hicks' case against the Federal Government listed for a preliminary hearing today in Sydney, his family has learnt that he may refuse the call because he was too psychologically fragile...

In the most recent call in July, Mr Hicks said his son was incoherent and struggling to speak for the first 30 minutes of the call. He also recently sat without speaking during a visit from the Australian consul and had refused to answer questions.

Mission Accomplished.



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