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Guantanamo detainees' Australian father campaigns in NY:

Terry Hicks, the father of Guantanamo Bay detaine, David Hicks, has been retracing his son's steps through Afghanistan and Pakistan and he says he's now convinced that his son was not a member of al-Qaeda.
He admits David may have trained with the organization, but stresses he would have received only military training, not terrorist training.
Terry Hicks made the distinction as he took his protest about his son's imprisonment to the streets of New York City"

[Reports are that Mr Hicks was getting a lot of abuse from passers bye. Comments were typified by the following: "I'd like to see him try to do this in front of a fire house and see what happens, and down near ground zero. His son has finally got some (inaudible) it's too bad".]