Do you think David Hicks has been treated fairly?

On the one hand:

• Hicks has been held at Guantanamo Bay for five years and was only recently charged.
• The ‘providing material support for terrorism’ charge he’s pleaded guilty to was not even a law in 2001 when he was arrested.
• Some suggest Hicks has pleaded guilty to simply escape Guantanamo Bay. Held for that long without a trial, wouldn’t you do anything to escape?
• Hicks is an Australian citizen being tried in the US over alleged incidents in Afghanistan. Why wasn’t more pressure exerted to bring one of our citizen’s home earlier?

But on the other hand:

• Hicks has pleaded guilty to the charge of ‘providing material support for terrorism’. If his case was so strong would his legal team have allowed a guilty plea?
• Letters from David Hicks to his father affirmed that he was a ‘Taliban member’, described himself as a ‘well trained and practical soldier’ and said that he was prepared for martyrdom against the ‘friends of Satan’.
• Hicks’ alleged training with the Kosovo Liberation Army in Albania, the Lashkar-e-Tioba terrorist organisation in Pakistan and the Taliban in Afghanistan would’ve taught him skills like weapons firing, landmines, assassination methods, kidnapping techniques and more.

What do you think?