Posted on 10/19/2004 11:07:43 PM PDT by Calpernia
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Spann [to Walker]: Hey you. Right here with your head down. Look at me. I know you speak English. Look at me. Where did you get the British military sweater?
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Spann: Where are you from? Where are you from? You believe in what you’re doing here that much, you’re willing to be killed here? How were you recruited to come here? Who brought you here? Hey! [He snaps his fingers in front of Walker’s face. Walker is unresponsive]
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Spann: What, are you puzzled?
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Spann: You got to talk to me. All I want to do is talk to you and find out what your story is. I know you speak English.
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Dave: Mike!
Spann [to Dave]: Yeah, he won’t talk to me.
Dave: OK, all right. We explained what the deal is to him.
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Dave [to Spann]: The problem is, he’s got to decide if he wants to live or die and die here. We’re just going to leave him, and he’s going to f—cking sit in prison the rest of his f—cking short life. It’s his decision, man. We can only help the guys who want to talk to us. We can only get the Red Cross to help so many guys.
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Walker does not respond
Dave [to Spann]: That’s all right man. Gotta give him a chance, he got his chance.
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Spann [to Dave]: Did you get a chance to look at any of the passports?
Dave: There’s a couple of Saudis and I didn’t see the others.
Spann: I wonder what this guy’s got?
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Excellent find on this interview. I wish I was able to post it in full. MSN mandates excerpts though.
ping
Heartbreaking -- Thanks for the ping Calpernia.
A you-gotta-be-kiddin' BTT...
Taliban John should be dead instead of Mike Spann. Taliban John ain't nothing but a waste of food & oxygen. Spann was trying to make the world a better place. Taliban John was just trying to f*** it up for his idiotic Islamofascist Jihad.
bump!
And where is Walker Lindh? Sitting safely in some warm prison with three hots and a cot. F*!
Yeh. I don't have a reply that wouldn't get me banned.
Cal, thank you for all the extra work that you do.
Ping
Thanks for posting this. Bump.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr is all I can utter. What a maddening read.
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