Word: lindh
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James Brosnahan, the chief lawyer for John Walker Lindh, the American accused of supporting the Taliban, had some harsh words for the U.S. government's conduct after his client's first appearance in court this week...
...John Walker Lindh...
...newly-shorn, puffy-faced perp as he stumbled, shackled, toward the Alexandria detention center. We have almost no idea who this guy is, and yet we can't stop talking about him: we speculate about his privileged upbringing, his parents' divorce, his reportedly rocky relationship with his father, Frank Lindh. Two years ago, Walker traveled abroad ostensibly to study Islam, and somewhere along the way he decided it might be a good idea to join up with a radical Muslim group, maybe get some fighting while he was over there. From that moment on, his life, his choices became public...
...Youth is not absolution for treachery," Attorney General John Ashcroft said today in announcing charges against John Walker Lindh. "Misdirected Americans cannot receive direction in murderous ideology." Lindh is in a bad place, but he's not in the worst possible position: The charges he currently faces do not carry the death penalty, although Ashcroft has made it clear the government is investigating other charges that could result in Walker's death...
...likelihood he would be selected by President Bush to face a military tribunal. But where that proceeding would occur and under what ground rules remain to be hammered out. He would probably spend some time in custody at sea aboard a U.S. warship. (American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh is being held aboard the U.S.S. Bataan, an amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Sea.) A shipboard trial for Omar is even possible. Charges would probably involve aiding a terrorist enterprise but not directly engaging in terrorism, which would be harder to prove...