MIDGET FILTHY BY CHOICE

Major Michael Mori, legal counsel for Guantanamo detainee David Hicks, tells The World Today's Michael Rowland that Hicks is being mistreated:

MICHAEL ROWLAND: Major Mori, who's just returned from Guantanamo Bay, says he was shocked to see David Hicks had been in the same clothes for three weeks.

MICHAEL MORI: His clothes were very soiled and smelled very badly. Obviously it concerned me a great deal. He told me hadn't been changed in three weeks, I brought it up with the JTF command, and we got him new, clean clothes. I'm not sure what was going on with that.

MICHAEL ROWLAND: The commander of the detention centre, Colonel Mike Bumgarner, tells a different story.

MIKE BUMGARNER: Yeah, Mr Hicks had refused to turn his laundry in during the normal course of events. He was upset that he had not been issued a second towel, one beyond that which the other detainees had been issued, and so he refused to turn in his laundry.

Now, I would say that even if he refuses to turn in his laundry with the other detainees, he still would have the possibility to clean his clothes in his cell, which many detainees do, as there is a sink and running water and soap available to them.

Mori also argues that Hick's hasn't been uncooperative and even he was, he's no threat to anyone:

He's a midget. I mean, he's only five-foot-three. He's not giving anybody a hard time, and it's just… they're, you know, trying to distract from the truth, which is that they're locking him up in solitary confinement again, and they want to try to distract from that.

Hey, I've never been headbutted in the groin by a midget and don't ever want to be.