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...long hair has been closely cropped and his beard shaved clean, but John Walker Lindh is still a believer. In his jail cell in northern Virginia, he has been telling his religious adviser how he came to realize that Allah had a plan...
...come to believe that he witnessed two modern miracles. But for Lindh, 21--raised amid the mellow comforts of California's Marin County and charged with betraying his country--another miracle came to pass last week in a northern Virginia courtroom, where defense lawyers and federal prosecutors announced a plea bargain. The deal abruptly ended the case against Lindh, who pleaded guilty to charges of aiding the Taliban and possessing explosives; in exchange, the government dropped terrorism and conspiracy charges that could have brought him three life terms plus 90 years. Federal District Judge T.S. Ellis III must approve...
...years, U.S. citizens living in northern border states from Maine to Washington have been slipping into Canada to pick up prescription drugs at cut-rate prices. The Senate passed a proposal last week that would make it easier to ship Canadian drugs directly to the U.S. But opposition from the drug industry is fierce, and Washington handicappers give the measure little chance of becoming...
DIED. COLONEL FLOYD J. THOMPSON, 69, the longest-serving prisoner of war in American history; of unknown causes; in Key West, Fla. After his plane was shot down in northern South Vietnam in 1964, Thompson endured physical and mental torture, including being hung by his thumbs, and five years in solitary. He stayed sane, he said, by building an imaginary house he and his wife would live in once he was freed by the Viet Cong--which he finally was, after nine years...
...deaths. Diplomats noted that Palestinians had been close to a deal to end attacks on Israeli civilians. Now all bets are off. UNITED KINGDOM I.R.A. Warned The British Government warned the Irish Republican Army that its political wing Sinn Féin could be thrown out of power in Northern Ireland if paramilitary violence persists. The warning came as the government pledged a stricter approach to assessing cease-fire breaches. Prime Minister Tony Blair told M.P.s that particular weight would be given to any evidence that paramilitaries are engaged in training and targeting and the acquisition or development of weapons...