7gcbc He is a British citizen now but the British government have declined to ask for his return to the UK as he was an Australian at the time of his capture.
Runaway Gun In letters to his father he is quoted as saying that he was shooting hundreds of rounds at the Americans and it was a just way to overcome "Western Jewery and return the World to the peace of Islam" - not word perfect but pretty close, he knew exactly who he was shooting at.