Posted on 04/23/2002 10:39:15 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:52:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Attorneys for accused American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh yesterday said he made incriminating statements to U.S. authorities in Afghanistan out of fear he would be turned over to Northern Alliance troops and killed.
In papers filed with U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III, the attorneys said Northern Alliance tribal leaders in Afghanistan killed as many as 300 Taliban and al Qaeda members after Lindh's capture and that he agreed to talk with U.S. authorities out of fear for his life.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
"Defense attorney George C. Harris said the summaries corroborate why Mr. Lindh would have feared return to Northern Alliance captivity at the time that he was interrogated in the area of Mazar-e-Sharif between December 1 and 7, 2001."
"Lindh's attorneys have ... said his statements during his captivity should not be admissible because he had been blindfolded, kept in a freezing metal container and tightly bound with handcuffs."
Well, which is it? The statements (admissions of his traitorous acts) he made were because the traitor/coward feared being handed over to the Northern Alliance, OR because the traitor/coward was cold and hungry? (pooooor baaaaabby, may hell be upon him)
"We sent our sons and our daughters and our husbands and our wives and our fathers and our mothers to a faraway land to fight this terrible evil so we could continue to live and enjoy the freedom that we live in today. As we all know, freedom's not free. Bodies have come home draped with flags. Mike's was the first. ... Americans will not tolerate traitors."
--Johnny Spann (Father of Johnny Micheal Spann)
AMEN.
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