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To: John Hunt who wrote (11681)	12/13/2001 6:37:01 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (1) of 27666

Aussie Taliban [ How Adelaide schoolboy David Hicks became Mohammed and joined bin Laden ADELAIDE "soldier of fortune", David Hicks, went from a mischievous northern suburbs schoolboy to a fighter for Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. The father of two and former jackaroo adopted the name Mohammed Dawood and, for the past three months, has fought alongside other Taliban fighters in the war against the allies in Afghanistan. The Islamic convert, 26, was captured by Northern Alliance troops in Afghanistan on Saturday. His father, Terry Hicks, said yesterday his son called him on September 28 – 17 days after the terrorist attacks against the US – and told him he was fighting for the Taliban. "That's when I picked myself up from the floor," Mr Hicks, a Salisbury Defence Department surveillance research laboratory worker, said. "I think of a terrorist as someone with a bomb strapped to him, but he's a terrorist in our eyes as he's fighting against his own kind. "I told him what I thought of what he was doing." ] Continued at the link... theadvertiser.news.com.au

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