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...JUSTICE 9 Months that David Hicks will serve in an Australian jail, after five years held without trial at Guantánamo Bay, upon pleading guilty to providing material support to terrorism 20 Years American John Walker Lindh is serving in federal prison for serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. Lindh's lawyers are seeking a reduced sentence in light of Hicks' punishment
Power, the Lindh professor of practice of global leadership and public policy, took a leave of absence from the Kennedy School last year to advise Obama on foreign policy...
...Lindh, now 26, converted to Islam and then joined the Taliban in the summer of 2001 in Afghanistan, where he was later captured by U.S. forces, becoming the first person charged in an American court on terrorism charges in the wake of 9/11. Lindh's lawyers have drawn a comparison between the treatment of their client and that of David Hicks, the Australian who admitted to fighting alongside the Taliban and training with al-Qaeda. Hicks's internment at Guantanamo amid allegations of torture and other mistreatment had become an issue in Australia, where Prime Minister John Howard - a strong...
...another case cited by Lindh's lawyers, Yasser Hamdi, an American citizen also held at Guantanamo, was allowed to renounce his citizenship and move to his native Saudi Arabia in 2004, after three years of being held as an enemy combatant...
...Despite the inequality between his sentence and that of Hicks, Lindh's release would face strong opposition - most notably from Johnny Spann, whose son, CIA officer Michael Spann, was killed in an uprising at the prison in Afghanistan where Lindh was initially taken after his capture. Spann has declared publicly that he believes Lindh should have been given a life sentence, and that he should serve his full 20-year term. He argues that Lindh could and should have warned his son of the danger presented by the prison uprising, but did not. At his trial, Lindh claimed to have...