Former Guantanamo Bay detainee (David Hicks) weds in Australia

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Source: AP

CANBERRA, Australia — The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be convicted under the U.S. military commission system was married over the weekend in a Christian wedding in Australia, his father said Monday.

David Hicks, 34, who was released from prison in 2007, was married by a Uniting Church pastor in a Sydney chapel on Saturday to university student Aloysia Brooks, said father Terry Hicks, who attended the private ceremony.

David Hicks, an Australia-born Muslim convert who was captured by the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in late 2001, gave up his Islamic beliefs during his 5 1/2 years as a prisoner at the U.S. naval base on Cuba, his father said.

"He did that ages ago," Terry Hicks said of his only son reverting to Christianity.

The wedding guests included Michael Mori, the Pentagon-appointed Marine Corps defense lawyer who brokered David Hicks' plea bargain on terrorism charges in March 2007, Terry Hicks said.

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1. "The Worst of the Worst" said the war criminal Dick Cheney.

Why does he still walk as a free man?

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2. thanks for this news

I did not know he'd been released from the Australian prison. goodonhim.