Australian told family about 'lovely' Bin Laden, court hears

Taliban foot soldier David Hicks described Osama bin Laden as “lovely” and trained with al-Qaida a month before the 9/11attacks on the US, police told an Australian court today.

The Australian Federal Police have applied to a court in Adelaide for an order to restrict the movements of Hicks – a convicted al-Qaida supporter and former inmate at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – once he is released from an Adelaide prison on December 29.