Posted on 05/23/2019 6:21:37 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
(CNN)John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban" whose capture in Afghanistan riveted a country in the early days after the September 11 attacks, has been released from prison, his lawyer said.
After serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence, Lindh, the first US-born detainee in the war on terror, on Thursday walked out of a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, and will join the small, but growing, group of Americans convicted of terror-related charges attempting to re-enter into society.
Lindh will live in Virginia subject to the direction of his probation officer, his lawyer, Bill Cummings, tells CNN. But some are already calling for an investigation into his time in prison -- where he is said in two US government reports to have made pro-ISIS and other extremist statements -- that could send him back into detention.
Reports of Lindh's maintained radicalization, detailed in two 2017 official counterterrorism assessments, are also driving questions about the efforts of the US government to rehabilitate former sympathizers like him, who are expected to complete prison sentences in waves in the coming years.
Raised in the suburbs north of San Francisco, Lindh took an interest in Islam at a young age, converting to the religion at 16 and moving to the Middle East to learn Arabic after finishing high school.
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He better get his ass to Ireland, toute suite.
Someone, anyone
Do the right thing
This is insane !
They omit mention of his father coming out as gay and leaving the family. That's gotta screw up a kid.
He should only have been released to bury his dead carcass. Maybe he’ll pray to Allah while stepping out in front of a bus.
You’d think an @sshole like Lindh might have to worry for his physical safety. But it only ever seems to be high-profile conservatives who get attacked or have assassination attempts from the Left.
At the same time he was captured my son was being deployed to Afghanistan. My son says Johnnie should be dropped off in Afghanistan....from 10,000 ft. Without a parachute.
Sure be a shame if he were to suffer an accident so soon after being released. A whiff of freedom and BAM!
Let’s hope society exits him from life soon.
Deport them. I hear Venus is lovely this time of year.
It surprises me that someone like this survived prison.
What happened to the Neo Nazi gangs in our Federal Prisons?
Have they gone soft?
Most kids, they take up skateboarding or a little graffiti to rebel. JOHN? No way, after his loooowyah dad went gay John got PISSED. And confused.
How confused?
He started wearing flowing arab robes around Marin County --that's where hippies go to live if they luck out and earn a bit of cash.
Later it gets worse and he adds to his get up a sword. No, not a sword --a freaking SCIMITAR. Arab style, see? And sandals. Everything but the camel.
And he goes all over Marin County, like that.
You see him here in IRELAND. Yeah, he went around there like that, too.
He mellowed out in prison, though, right? Nope..! He got WORSE:
Every morning super early he starts shrieking that Good Morning Allah crap, super loud, reminding himself and EVERYONE around him what he is.
Or, historically,
“Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest.”
- King Henry II
"BB gun..? Hmmm. Slingshot? Nah..! Hey, uhh....WHAT ABOUT AN AK..?! Golly, that'd be BOSS..!!"
Um, where in Virginia....?
I hope that Kathy griffins goes a cuts off his head,, that would be funny ..
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