The Wire

The case against former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks which aimed to block him from receiving profits from his memoirs has been dropped. The news is good for Hicks and his supporters, including ex-Guantanamo Bay prison guard Brandon Neely, who was ready to testify for the defense at the trial about the conditions he witnessed Hicks suffer in detention.

Neely was a guard at Guantanamo Bay in its first six months of operation and has since become friends with David and several other detainees he was ordered to hold captive.