AustLit

'X-Ray is about the detention of David Hicks, one of the alleged illegal combatants held in Cuba since the U.S. led invasion of Afghanistan.

'The Hicks character tells of growing up in Adelaide, the appeal of and his study of Islam, and how he came to find himself bearing arms in Afghanistan.

'Hicks is portrayed as a larrikin character who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, and who has been poorly treated by the Australian government, the only one of forty-one nations whose citizens are detained which has not protested at their detention, which is itself not in accord with The Geneva Convention of 1949.'

Source: ABC Radio National website, http://www.abc.net.au/rn/airplay/stories/2006/1748789.htm
Sighted: 20/11/2006