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...Walker's childhood neighbors said the things neighbors always say in these situations. "They were an average American family," and John "was a sweet, quiet boy." It happens to be true. John Walker Lindh was a middle child named after John Lennon and Chief Justice John Marshall. He spent his first 10 years in Silver Spring, Md., in the happy, unremarkable manner that most parents wish for their children. "We were loud, normal kids," says Andrew Cleverdon, a boyhood friend of Walker's. "We played football and basketball, rode our bikes." John's father, attorney Frank Lindh, took...
...Apparently it was The Autobiography of Malcolm X that inspired Walker to convert to Islam. He talked with his parents about his plans. Frank Lindh, now a lawyer with Pacific Gas & Electric, was accepting. Marilyn Walker had reservations. "She was concerned," says Marilyn's friend Stephanie Hendricks. "You have a 16-year-old kid who gets involved in any kind of religion in a passionate way, and you're going to want to know more about it, right...
...Walker passed a proficiency exam and graduated early from Tamiscal High. He asked that the name on his diploma be changed to Sulayman Al-Lindh. He never picked up the certificate. Soon he told Nana that he had found an Arabic-language school in San'a, Yemen, on the Internet. "The language spoken in Yemen is closer to the holy language of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet," explains Nana. Walker also felt it would be easier to practice Islam in a Muslim country. In December 1998 he left for the Middle East...
...Macedonia the lead actor for now is the European Union. The full panoply of the E.U.'s unwieldy foreign policy apparatus was funneled into Skopje last week: High Representative Javier Solana, Commissioner Chris Patten, Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh and Bodo Hombach, special coordiNATOr of the Stability Pact. All left behind strong messages of support for the Macedonian government, while urging it to speed up its desultory efforts to meet longstanding Albanian demands for better political and economic standing in the country...
...Angeles court heard the first legal challenge to the detention of 158 prisoners held there. District Judge Howard Matz gave government lawyers until Jan. 31 to respond to the petition, which claims the detentions violate international law and the U.S. Constitution. In Virginia, "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, charged with supporting terrorism, made his first appearance in a federal court and was remanded in custody until...