David Hicks - the missing letter.

http://images.smh.com.au/file/2011/08/20/2570403/DavidHicks.pdf?rand=13138512...

Wikileaks Cable
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2006/06/06MELBOURNE244.html#par7

DAVID HICKS was desperate, lonely and scared he would never get out of Guantanamo Bay unless he confessed to crimes he did not commit. The Americans were playing mind games with him. He was forced to make decisions about his future while chained to the floor of a cell. He was coerced into signing a ''plea guilty'' form with ''al Qaida written all over it'' in the belief it would be his ticket home.
Despite his predicament, Hicks believed he had a friend in Guantanamo - a guard named Albert Melise. It was to him, in April 2004, Hicks entrusted a long, handwritten letter to his father, Terry, in the hope it would get to him uncensored and reveal publicly the pressure he was under to falsely confess to war crimes.

But Terry Hicks never received the letter. Melise, believing it was too risky to send, kept it.
Now, seven years later, that never-before-seen letter has surfaced as Hicks prepares for his first day in court. He is defending an action by the federal government to seize, as proceeds of crime, the royalties from his book "Guantanamo: My Journey".

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