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American Taliban' tortured: dadFrom: Reuters By Adam Tanner by San Francisco January 20, 2006 THE father of an American jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan said this morning his son had been tortured and unjustly punished amid public hysteria over the September 11 attacks. "The maltreatment and imprisonment of John Lindh was – and is – a human rights violation," Frank Lindh told the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. "It was based purely on an emotional response to the 9/11 attacks, not on an objective assessment of the facts of John's case." A 24-year-old Californian dubbed the...

American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh has asked President Bush again to reduce his 20-year prison sentence by an unspecified amount, Lindh's attorney said Tuesday. Lindh, now in his early 20s, wrote a first-person account to the Justice Department's pardon attorneys arguing why he believes Bush should reduce his sentence. Lindh's attorney said the document could not be publicly released under U.S. government restrictions intended to prevent Lindh from disclosing national secrets. Lindh, a native of Marin County, Calif., who is now imprisoned in southern California, was captured in Afghanistan weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He pleaded...

FOUR years after his capture in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, John Walker Lindh - "the Marin Taliban" - is quietly serving out his 20-year sentence in a medium-security federal prison in Victorville on the edge of the Mojave Desert. Lindh is a model prisoner, said his father, Frank Lindh of San Rafael, and his spirits are good. He is "as well adjusted as one can be, given the circumstances," West said. ....He was labeled a terrorist and a traitor to the United States, which had invaded Afghanistan to find Osama bin Laden and avenge the horrors of 9/11. Lindh...

Some TV program that combines practical jokes with "Fear Factor" hired a PETA moonbat to work in a research lab that was "experimenting with combining rat and human dna"...hysterically funny!

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Left-wing "comedian" Al Franken got tripped up by some big fat lies this week. He's sorry he got caught, but smugly silent about making fun of countless American kids who have taken abstinence vows.Thanks to Court TV's Smoking Gun Web site (www.thesmokinggun.com), we now know that the Saturday Night Live leftover abused his position as an "academic fellow" (now that's funny) at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy in a puerile attempt to trick Attorney General John Ashcroft into publicly sharing his personal experience with abstinence.Franken urged Ashcroft to share...

Sir Winston Churchill, the remarkably witty and inspirational British Prime Minster, once stated, ''A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.'' Certainly, that description would apply to anti-war activists, who attempt to seize every opportunity to vent their hatred of our military and President Bush. Such is the case in the town of Mill Valley, California, where the sacrifice of the brave and selfless in the defense of our nation is to be tarnished by the cowardly and selfish. On the morning of Memorial Day, the Marin Peace and Justice Coalition, protesting its exclusion...

American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh sentenced to 20 years in prison. Details coming.

Secret interrogation notes show that Taliban American fighter believed Sept. 11 attacks were beginning of three-phase terror offensive.

Here is a picture of the future of Maine under John Baldacci (Rat-ME)candidate for governor The Mama Baldacci's,Skohegan Maine John (I was partying with the babes on capital hill 2 days after 9/11) Baldacci still lists his occupation as Restaurant Manager, Mama Baldacci's, Skohegan Maine. He can't even get the grass cut.

Although it came unexpectedly yesterday morning, John Walker Lindh's guilty plea to two of the lesser charges against him was no surprise to Bay Area Muslims who knew him and had little faith in his escaping punishment from the federal government. "We Muslims didn't have much hope for him," said Ebrahim Nana, who sits on the board of directors at the Islamic Center of Mill Valley, where Lindh studied and converted to Islam in 1997, when he was 16. Lindh, 21, grew up in San Anselmo; his father, Frank Lindh, lives in San Rafael and his mother, Marilyn Walker, lives...

<p>Family is disgusted.</p> <p>July 16, 2002 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The father of slain CIA Agent Johnny "Mike" Spann reacted angrily yesterday to the plea deal for John Walker Lindh - and charged that it's a blow to everyone who died on Sept. 11.</p>

<p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP)--A Muslim scholar who taught American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh for six months in a remote Pakistan village has been arrested by police in a joint U.S.-Pakistan operation, a Muslim leader said Tuesday.</p> <p>Mufti Mohammed Iltimas was arrested near the Afghan border in the village of Bannu, according to Qari Abdullah, a local leader of one of Pakistan's largest Islamic groups, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.</p>

Does anyone know if this will be a jury trial?

An American who fought with the Taliban spoke with the FBI only to escape horrible prision conditions, his lawyers say. The assertion by John Walker Lindh's defense team is the latest challenge to potentially incriminating statements he made during capitvity.Lindh's responses to the FBI formed a major part of the indictment against him.Lindh, 21, is charged with conspiring to kill Americans, providing support to terrorists, including Osama bin Laden's Al Qaida, and using firearms during crimes of violence. Three of the 10 charges carry a maximum life sentence and the other seven could bring an additional 90 years in prision.The...