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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The Federal Bureau of Prisons will be able to protect John Walker Lindh from any inmates seeking to avenge his service with Taliban forces in Afghanistan, a bureau spokeswoman said Tuesday. Traci Billingsley, speaking for the agency that administers the nation's 102 federal prisons, said bureau personnel would decide what steps were needed to protect the 21-year-old Californian from inmates. "We consider both types of security when designating the institution that would be best suited for a particular inmate," Billingsley said. "We take all the necessary security precautions to ensure that all our inmates remain safe while...

<p>Washington -- By reaching a plea bargain with a man accused by the attorney general of fighting "side by side with tyrants," the government swiftly eliminated the risk of bringing unwanted attention to the underside of the U.S. war against terror.</p>

<p>Washington -- Raising unprecedented questions about the role of media war correspondents, attorneys for John Walker Lindh asked a judge Tuesday to bar as evidence from his trial an incriminating, widely seen interview Lindh gave to CNN in December.</p> <p>The San Francisco-based attorneys for the 21-year-old Marin County man charged with terrorism argued that the interview with CNN contributor Robert Pelton was coerced out of a frightened, wounded and dazed Lindh.</p>

<p>Washington -- For the first time, federal prosecutors explicitly accused John Walker Lindh on Tuesday of being partly responsible for the slaying of CIA agent Johnny "Mike" Spann during an Afghan prison uprising in November.</p> <p>In a bluntly worded 32-page motion, the prosecutors said the Marin County man accused of participating in a conspiracy to kill Americans overseas and of providing material support for terrorists can be blamed directly for Spann's death under the law of conspiracy.</p>

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - As U.S. troops transferred him to a metal prison container at a primitive base in Afghanistan, captured Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh pleaded, "Please don't kill me," a defense motion says. Lindh was told by a Marine to shut up, a response delivered with an expletive, according to the motion filed Thursday. The defense motion was based on information provided to the government by military guards, and then turned over to the defense under a court order. The defense team wants to subpoena the Marine guard who heard Lindh's comment, along with other U.S. military and...

A decade ago, I never thought I would be Twenty-three On the verge of spontaneous combustion Woe is me But I guess that it comes with the territory An ominous landscape of never-ending calamity. I need you to hear, I need you to see That I have had all I can take And exploding seems like a definite possibility to me So pardon me while I burst into flames. I've had enough of the world, and its people's mindless games So pardon me while I burn, and rise above the flame Pardon me, pardon me. I'll never be the same....

The Associated Press   Web Posted : 05/06/2002 4:34 PM   ALEXANDRIA, Va. _ A federal judge said Monday he is considering a video hookup to allow lawyers for American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh to interview detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said that defense request for interviews with the detainees presented an unprecedented legal conflict between a defense's right to speak with witnesses who could help a defendant and the government's attempt to gather intelligence in the war on terrorism.Lindh's attorneys have demanded face-to-face interviews while the government has rejected such a...

I t is plain that the government has no clue what to do with Yasser Esam Hamdi, the "second American Taliban." Captured last November in Afghanistan, Hamdi was held at the Guantanamo facility until last Friday. Then, on advice from federal lawyers, he was transferred to the brig at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia. Hamdi is a U.S. citizen by birth, but was taken back to Saudi Arabia by his parents soon afterwards. He seems to have "dual citizenship," being both a Saudi and an American. (I have a lot of trouble with this concept. Here's a suggestion for...

Taliban John: The Discovery Motion By Henry Mark Holzer FrontPageMagazine.com | April 5, 2002 ON MONDAY, JOHN WALKER LINDH’S LAWYERS were in Virginia federal court making what lawyers call a “discovery” motion, trying to obtain information from the government bearing on their client’s defense. Apparently treated as routine by the media – Associated Press ran a short wire service story; CNN had little to report – the hearing was anything but routine, especially because of one particular card the defense tried to play. To understand the defense tactics at play in its discovery motion, we have to differentiate between different...

Does anyone know if this will be a jury trial?

An American who fought with the Taliban spoke with the FBI only to escape horrible prision conditions, his lawyers say. The assertion by John Walker Lindh's defense team is the latest challenge to potentially incriminating statements he made during capitvity.Lindh's responses to the FBI formed a major part of the indictment against him.Lindh, 21, is charged with conspiring to kill Americans, providing support to terrorists, including Osama bin Laden's Al Qaida, and using firearms during crimes of violence. Three of the 10 charges carry a maximum life sentence and the other seven could bring an additional 90 years in prision.The...

The American Taliban’s defense team hopes to prove that Lindh stayed with the Taliban out of fear, not love or loyalty Walker Lindh with prosecution and defense lawyers at a Feb. 15 court appearance When John Walker Lindh was captured in Afghanistan last December, ,b>he told reporters that he joined the Taliban because his “heart became attached to them.” But according to documents his lawyers filed in federal court in Virginia on Friday, Lindh actually feared his comrades more than he loved them. After learning of the September 11 attacks, the documents say, Lindh “was obviously disillusioned...and wanted to leave...