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...Meanwhile, new evidence has surfaced that's likely to provide further grist to anti-Lindh sentiment. In an e-mail Lindh sent to his mother, Marilyn Walker, in February 2000, he urges her to move to England. "I really don't know what your big attachement (sic) to America is all about. What has America ever done for anybody...
...other messages, Lindh expresses his belief that the United States was responsible for starting the Gulf War and that the bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa "seemed far more likely to have been carried out by the American government than by Muslims...
...Lindh's parents and lawyers maintain he "loves America," but Ashcroft dismisses their claims, saying, "Americans who love their country don't dedicate themselves to killing Americans...
...None of this is helping Lindh's defense team; attorney James Brosnahan is not having much luck finding an audience for his case, i.e. that Lindh is being used by the U.S. Justice Department as a sacrificial lamb in the war on terrorism. "In my view," he told reporters outside the Virginia courthouse, "they have brought out the cannon to shoot the mouse." The defense team will likely counter government claims that Lindh willingly joined in a jihad against Americans by arguing that when Lindh joined the Taliban, they were engaged in fighting the Northern Alliance - at the time...
...enthusiasm for the prosecution of this case as evidence the government is not dedicated to conducting a fair trial. He also told reporters his client was denied access to an attorney and subjected to "highly coercive" conditions while in custody of the U.S. military. Ashcroft bridled at the suggestion: Lindh's legal rights, the AG told reporters Tuesday, "have been carefully, scrupulously honored...