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...residents of the U.S.--connected to al-Qaeda. For years there have been rumors of Americans in the Afghan terrorist camps, and an American, originally from Georgia, is reported to have died in 1998 while fighting with Islamic militias in Kashmir. But with the salient exception of John Walker Lindh, a Taliban soldier captured in Afghanistan last year, most Americans connected with Islamic terrorism were born in Arab lands. Both the CIA and the State Department deny published reports that a number of Americans were arrested in Pakistan last week, though Pakistani officials insist they have two Afghan-Americans...
Bush's treatment of accused terrorists troubles many legal experts, who say the Administration appears to be making up the rules as it goes along. American Taliban John Walker Lindh and foreign suspects Zacarias Moussaoui and Richard Reid all face federal trial, but Yasser Hamdi, the Louisiana-born Saudi captured last December in Afghanistan, is being held in Norfolk as an enemy combatant. Now Padilla is being held as a combatant as well--though the Administration says it has no plans to try him before a tribunal. "The real test case is Padilla," says Duke professor Scott Silliman, who specializes...
...This utter ambiguity distinguishes Padilla's circumstances from those of John Walker Lindh and Zacarias Moussaoui. Walker Lindh, also a U.S. citizen, was captured while fighting alongside Taliban forces in Afghanistan, in an obvious "war zone." Since his detention last fall, he has been transferred over from the military court system to the federal system; a step that will lend a new degree of transparency to Lindh's legal proceedings. Moussaoui, the suspected "20th hijacker," will also be tried in federal court, although he is not a U.S. citizen...
...outside the Russian consulate in New York City. On May 12, the group held a meeting at New York City's Brooklyn College, complete with videos of alleged atrocities committed against Muslims worldwide. Fahad Hashmi, a Pakistani-American student, spoke at the meeting, praising the American Taliban, John Walker Lindh. "America is directly involved in exterminating Muslims," said Hashmi. "America is the biggest terrorist in the world...
There doesn't seem to be much doubt now that Yasser Esam Hamdi was born on the bayou. Or that Hamdi and alleged Taliban turncoat John Walker Lindh were among the holdouts in the Qala-i-Jangi prison riot that day, raising the possibility that the two knew each other. But they were separated immediately after capture because Lindh needed medical attention and Hamdi didn't appear to be injured. In February Hamdi was shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with other suspected al-Qaeda men. "From the very beginning, there was a possibility in everyone's mind that...