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Connecticut Magazine
March 22, 2018
When I wrote “John Walker's Blues,” [about John Walker Lindh, a U.S. citizen who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001] I knew I was gonna get shit. Not everybody wants to go through what I went through, but it was important to me. I saw a 20-year-old kid, same age as my son, duct-taped to a board,Ãâà...
Daily Telegraph
March 7, 2018
They met many of their objectives, including capturing the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, where they took infamous American Taliban operative John Walker Lindh, whose identity was later discovered when he was interrogated by the CIA. When Spence's photo was made its way its way to the media in NovemberÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
March 6, 2018
They met many of their objectives, including capturing the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, where they took infamous American Taliban operative John Walker Lindh, whose identity was later discovered when he was interrogated by the CIA. When Spence's photo was made its way its way to the media in NovemberÃâà...
The Australian
March 2, 2018
One, John Walker Lindh, known as the “American Taliban”, was captured in Afghanistan and jailed for 20 years in 2002. Rumours have persisted for months of Islamic State fighters from the Middle East drifting into Afghanistan to join the local franchise of ISIS. However, observers are sceptical EuropeanÃâà...
The Times
March 2, 2018
One, John Walker Lindh, known as the “American Taliban”, was captured in Afghanistan and jailed for 20 years in 2002. Rumours have persisted for months of Islamic State fighters from the Middle East drifting into Afghanistan to join the local franchise of Isis. However, observers are sceptical that EuropeanÃâà...
BBC News
March 1, 2018
While foreign fighters are common in Syria alongside so-called Islamic State (IS) militants, it is rare to find Western nationals in Taliban ranks. The best-known is perhaps John Walker Lindh, who became known as the "American Taliban" and was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Jamaica Observer
February 12, 2018
2002: John Walker Lindh, a US citizen captured fighting alongside Afghanistan's deposed Taliban militia, pleads not guilty to 10 counts of conspiring to kill Americans and abetting terrorist groups. 2004: Chechnya's exiled former President Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, wanted by Russia for terrorism and ties toÃâà...
legal Insurrection (blog)
November 26, 2017
No concrete details on the death emerged in the court case of John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban from Marin County, who had been interrogated by Spann shortly before the CIA agent died. The Afghan prisoners said Lindh shouted out around the time of the prison uprising that he was “anÃâà...
IrishCentral
June 27, 2017
The so-called “American Taliban”, John Walker Lindh, has announced that once free he plans on moving to Ireland. Lindh, a California native, was infamously the first enemy combatant captured during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. He was raised as a Roman Catholic but converted to Islam as aÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
June 23, 2017
Photographed naked and bound, California-born John Walker Lindh became detainee #001 in the global war on terrorism and dubbed the “American Taliban.” Branded a traitor and terrorist back home, he was convicted of supporting the Taliban and sentenced to 20 years in prison in a media firestorm thatÃâà...
Truth-Out
January 5, 2017
In November 2001, 20-year-old John Walker Lindh was captured by Northern Alliance forces in Afghanistan and imprisoned at the Qala-i-Jangi fortress. Once identified as an American, Lindh was transferred to US military forces and subjected to harsh interrogation (in his initial statements, he claimed heÃâà...
New York Times
October 22, 2016
It was faith that induced John Walker Lindh to travel to the Islamic world. A Californian, raised as a Catholic, he converted to Islam at age 16. A year later he studied Arabic and Islam in Yemen, and subsequently, still a teenager, he relocated to Pakistan, where he studied at a madrasa. In the spring of 2001,Ãâà...
The Nation.
August 29, 2014
From the moment the story broke,“John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban,” was denounced by public officials and the news media as a “traitor” and a “terrorist.” Wounded and desperate after being rescued at Qala-i-Jangi, John was brutally mistreated by US soldiers, photographed naked, bound andÃâà...
NBCNews.com
August 28, 2014
Flashback: John Walker Lindh American Taliban. Thu, Aug 28. In the wake of American jihadi Douglas McCain's death, a look at the 2001 case of John Walker Lindh, an American caught fighting for the Taliban. Share Video; Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ E-mail; Embed. Copy this code to your website or blog.
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