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...Card alerted him on Sept. 30 that someone had opened an account in his name. Johnson called the three major credit bureaus and found that two of his credit reports were riddled with errors. Accounts had been opened by someone who gave the wrong birth date and mother's maiden name. When he turned to his local police, a detective told him nothing could be done unless he had the suspect's name and address--implying that Johnson should do a little digging...
...life. Maybe he is Abdul Hamid, a name he used when he was a Talib, allegedly one who conspired to kill Americans. Or maybe he's John Walker, a suburban '90s kid who lit out for distant territories both geographic and religious, seeking himself (and taking his mother's maiden name) after his parents' estrangement. In his most recent incarnation, at the hearing, he was John Lindh--that's his given surname, now insisted upon by his image-conscious legal team. This version of the 20-year-old is a U.S. citizen who "loves America," as his dad insists...
...lawyer, coaches soccer and works as a private investigator in San Francisco. Police pulled over William, formerly known as General Teko, in his Honda Passport SUV shortly after 8 a.m., as he was driving his kids to school. Emily, a computer consultant who has gone back to using her maiden name, Montague, was stopped near her suburban Los Angeles home. Michael Bortin, who runs Zen Hardwood Floors, was asleep when police called to say they were outside his Victorian house in Portland, Ore. A final suspect, James Kilgore, the only fugitive in the group, vanished decades ago and remains...
...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 the bus to his job at the Department of Justice. Marilyn Walker was a stay-at-home mom who kept her maiden name. They played with their three kids, went to Mass at St. Bernadette's Catholic Church and held a "Kentucky Derby Day" every...
...terrible ordeal indeed. Walker (he goes by his mother’s maiden name) was taken prisoner by the Northern Alliance after the fall of Kunduz and imprisoned in the now-infamous Kala Jangi fortress. At the prison, Newsweek reported recently, he refused to answer questions posed by two CIA agents. Shortly after he was sent back to his cell, one of his interrogators, CIA agent Johnny “Mike” Spann, was killed by Walker’s comrades-in-arms...