Guantanamo ex-inmate still called a threat

Former Guantanamo inmate David Hicks remains a threat and will have to regularly report to police and stay indoors from midnight to dawn when he is released from prison Dec. 29, an Australian magistrate ruled.

Hicks, a Muslim convert and former kangaroo skinner, pleaded guilty to supporting Al Qaeda at a U.S. military tribunal after being captured in 2001 in Afghanistan.

He was held for more than five years without trial at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was sentenced in March to seven years in prison, with all but nine months suspended, and under a plea bargain was returned to Australia to serve the remainder of his term.