Getting Away with Murder: The Real Story Behind American Taliban John Walker Lindh and What the U.S. Government Had to Hide
Hominid Views (Free subscription) | yesterday
... without parole at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. On July 15, 2002, John Walker Lindh entered a plea of guilty to serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. The judge asked Lindh to say, in his own words, what he was admitting to. Lindh’s allocution went as follows: “I plead guilty”, he said. “I provided my services as a soldier to...
US News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... in prison for conspiracy. The Bush administration also successfully prosecuted "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid in civilian courts.
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Last week, former OLC deputy John Yoo argued in the WSJ that the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York was a major mistake. Trying KSM in civilian court will be an intelligence bonanza for al Qaeda and the hostile nations that will view the U.S. intelligence methods and sources that such a trial [...]
Later On (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... terrorists , including “shoe bomber” Richard Reid; al-Qaeda agent Jose Padilla; “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh; the Lackawanna Six; and Zacarias Moussaoui, who was prosecuted for the same conspiracy for which Mohammed is likely to be charged. Many of these terrorists are locked in a supermax prison in Colorado, never to be seen again. In terrorist trials over the past...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... terrorists , including “shoe bomber” Richard Reid; al-Qaeda agent Jose Padilla; “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh; the Lackawanna Six; and Zacarias Moussaoui, who was prosecuted for the same conspiracy for which Mohammed is likely to be charged. Many of these terrorists are locked in a supermax prison in Colorado, never to be seen again. In terrorist trials over the past...
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... terrorists, including “shoe bomber” Richard Reid; al-Qaeda agent Jose Padilla; “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh; the Lackawanna Six; and Zacarias Moussaoui, who was prosecuted for the same conspiracy for which Mohammed is likely to be charged. Many of these terrorists are locked in a supermax prison in Colorado, never to be seen again. [my emphasis] It won’t do any good,...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
American authorities believe the movement incubates jihadists. They say Richard Reid, John Walker Lindh and Jose Padilla are examples. But many educated Pakistanis and some American academics argue that it’s a peaceful group whose reputation has suffered from militants who simply happened to have taken part in its activities. (Jane Perlez discussed the movement and its critics...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, and Omar Abdel-Rahman who was convicted for involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. Since President Bush signed an executive order allowing the indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, Gitmo has become the most noted legal black hole where suspects...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... book I say that Islam is a unitary ideology with multiple appeals. F or impressionable types from John Walker Lindh to the Prince of Wales, its eastern exoticism has more appeal than the dreary occidental faiths; for the likes of Richard Reid and Khalid Kelly, it's the ultimate global gang: Kelly, 42, is an unconventional jihadist. Having grown up a staunch Catholic and trained...
CrimProf Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... trial of Omar Abdel Rahman in 1995, but also of Ramzi Yousef, Zacarias Moussaoui, Jose Padilla, John Walker Lindh and Richard Reid, to name just a few. Not all cases have been perfect, but the outcomes, by and large, have been accepted around the world and have consigned the convicted terrorists to spend many decades or the rest of their lives in the obscurity of federal prison....
The Note (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... The Virginia city of Alexandria – the so-called"rocket docket" where Zacarias Moussaoui and John Walker Lindh were tried - was another possible venue for the trial of GTMO detainees. And Webb argues the trials could set a dangerous precedent. "…we must be especially careful with any decisions to bring onto American soil any of those prisoners who remain a threat to our country...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
There is every evidence, as has been repeated here in many postings, that he was an unswerving, perfectly orthodox Muslim. He was not a recent convert, like Richard Reid or Jose Padilla, or John Walker LIndh, or David Hicks. He was not a seemingly lapsed or indifferent Muslim, as was...
Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... returned to Yemen in 2002, al-Awlaki taught at San’a’s Iman University, the same university that John Walker Lindh, the American caught with the Taliban in Afghanistan, used to visit while living in Yemen. The university is headed by Abdulmajid al-Zindani, a prominent Yemeni cleric often described ( by the US Treasury and the UN’s 1267 committee ) as a religious mentor to bin...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... politics, its dedication to New Age religions, and overall hedonism. The American Taliban, John Walker Lindh, is from Marin, which led President Bush to quip in 2002 that he was "some misguided Marin County hot-tubber." With Mrs. Marathon Pundit behind the wheel, I had the opportunity for to gaze at Marin and notice a few things. My observations are of course not...
War On You (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
... in Springfield, Illinois. Finton also used the name Talib Islam and idolized his pen pal John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban.” Finton had been provided fake explosive materiel by an undercover FBI agent who posed as an al-Qaeda operative. After retreating to a safe distance, Finton twice dialed his cell phone, which he believed would initiate the blast, before being arrested...
