‘US antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan denounced the
Australian government for its participation in the Iraq war and called for the
release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay and the closure of the notorious US
military prison camp at a demonstration in Melbourne last Friday. 

Sheehan rejected US and
Australian government claims that Guantánamo inmates “did not deserve civil
rights” because they were “illegal enemy combatants”. The four-and-a-half-year
incarceration of Hicks, in violation of Geneva Conventions and his basic legal
rights, has been fully endorsed by the Howard government. 

“George Bush and John Howard and
Tony Blair are illegal combatants,” she said, “there’s nothing about this war
on terror that is legal. These people perpetuate the torture and the killing
and they’re still allowed to run free and live in society.”’ 

Cindy Sheehan
Condemns Australian Prime Minister As An "Illegal Combatant"