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AFTER MORE THAN five years of public interest in the David Hicks case, we are still unsure about his reasons for leaving the comforts of suburban Adelaide and travelling to war-ravaged Afghanistan, joining the anti-Western Taliban and receiving military training, taking up arms on behalf of Muslim extremists and fighting against the United States and its allies. It seems such an unlikely thing for an unremarkable young Australian to do.
There is nothing in his early life to suggest such a trajectory. After finishing school, Hicks worked in the Northern Territory and in the rural areas of South Australia before deciding at twenty-three to seek adventure abroad. ...