JAG CENTRAL

From the NY Times, Australia Uneasy About U.S. Detainee Case:

The Australian government, which has been one of the strongest supporters of the Bush administration's policy on the detention and prosecution of people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda, is growing uneasy with the handling of the case of one its citizens who has languished in the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay for more than three years.

In late March, the Australian ambassador to Washington went to the White House and Pentagon to express concerns about the status of David Hicks, 29, who has been at Guantánamo since January 2002, Australian and American officials said.

"We are very frustrated," a senior Australian official said. "The process is taking much longer than people might reasonably have expected."

"We don't want this guy in limbo forever," he added.

NOTE: For a long time, Mr. Hicks' detailed military attorney was Marine Major Michael Mori. I wrote this post about him, THIS MARINE HAS BALLS, on my old blog, which up to now has had the highest traffic of any post on any of my blogs. It's worth reading again.

In other NYT news, To Escape Trial, Hutu Rwandans Flee to Burundi ("Nearly 400 Hutu Rwandans have fled their country for Burundi in the past week in an effort to escape trials on charges stemming from the 1994 genocide, officials said Saturday.").