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Not In Our Name and the World Wide Terrorism WebBy Michael TremoglieFrontPageMagazine.com | March 19, 2003 In the run-up to this war, Not In Our Name became one of the major “peace” organizers and coalitions in the United States. Not In Our Name has spared no cost purchasing ads in newspapers around the world to publish its anti-American Statement of Conscience.  Its signatories include scores of Hate America bigwigs, like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Gloria Steinem and Barbara Kingsolver.  Hollywood icons (and many more has-beens) like Danny Glover, Jessica Lange, Tyne Daly, Martin Sheen and Ed Harris have...

<p>More details have emerged about the information provided to the FBI by the woman accused of calling an Indiana couple and falsely claiming to be their long-lost daughter.</p> <p>Donna L. Walker, who was being held by Kansas authorities in lieu of $100,000 bail, provided tips to authorities about child pornographers.</p>

Walker: Sosa's Explanations Don't Add Up 1 hour, 23 minutes ago By BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer Sammy Sosa said all the right things. It was a mistake. It was for the fans. It was an accident that will not happen again. A lot of explanations and excuses. And about as hard to believe as many of those 500-foot monster shots he launches. On Wednesday, X-rays showed that 76 of Sosa's bats confiscated a day earlier were clean. Which would mean he somehow hit a 1-in-77 chance of bad luck. Hmmmm. Sosa insists he was using a lighter, corked bat...

An increasing number of Democratic hopefuls say they intend to run against Republican freshman U.S. Rep. Max Burns who has only been in his congressional post for four months. Burns, R-Sylvania, is currently serving a two-year term in Congress representing the 12th District, which runs from Athens to Augusta to Savannah. Though qualifying for the 12th District race doesn't start until next April, with the general primary election July 20 and the general election Nov. 2, at least one candidate is getting started well ahead of the game. Athens-Clarke County Commissioner John Barrow, who stated his intention to run this...

VANCOUVER - I wasn't born a Canadian. I was born in Newfoundland and became a Canadian at age four when as a result of a referendum Newfoundland left British colonial status behind to join the Canadian federation. For more than 50 years I have been a Canadian. For more than 50 years I have been proud to be a Canadian. I was proud to be a Canadian when Canadian diplomats helped settle the Suez Crisis. I was proud to be a Canadian when collective action had to be taken the last time an expansionist megalomaniac decided to march down the...

Poll shows Burns leads District 12 Web posted Saturday, November 2, 2002 at 10:03 p.m. EST By Sylvia Cooper Staff Writer In the waning days of one of the state's fiercest political campaigns, Republican 12th Congressional District candidate Max Burns appears to be gaining momentum over his Democratic foe, Charles "Champ" Walker Jr. Mr. Burns' showing in a district drawn for a Democrat is surprising, particularly since many say it was drawn for Mr. Walker, the son of state Sen. Charles Walker Sr., who had a hand in creating the 12th District map. The younger Mr. Walker was expected to...

WASHINGTON - David Walker is the kind of guy who rarely wears jeans and if he does, friends say, they're probably ironed. He likes his numbers precise - usually carried out to the fourth decimal place. One of his biggest heroes in life is Elmer B. Staats, the fifth comptroller general of the United States. Mr. Walker, in other words, might not seem like the kind of person to carry out a rebellion against a sitting presidential administration. But, in fact, he is, of sorts. As head of the normally obscure General Accounting Office, Walker is leading an effort ...

Burns, Walker trade barbs as race in 12th turns testy By Lee Shearer lshearer@onlineathens.com The Max Burns campaign has pulled one of its negative campaign ads off the air as Democrat Charles Walker, Jr. threatens to sue the Republican in the increasingly nasty campaign for Georgia's 12th District congressional seat. The ad accused Walker of gouging families of Georgia inmates by charging ''$10 a minute'' for collect calls made from prisons. But according to a state list of rates, the highest rate charged was a $4.99 connection fee plus 89 cents per minute, and Walker did not help set the...

RECENTLY there was a bit of good news from the Middle East. A little act of kindness and humanity amidst all the gloom and violence generated by the current Palestinian intifada which has been responsible for the death of 1,997 people and the injuring of 24,184. One victim of the current intifada was 19-year-old Jonathan (Yoni) Jesner from Glasgow who died two weeks ago, a day after he was blown up on a Tel Aviv bus by a Hamas suicide bomber. Yoni had been studying at a school for potential Rabbis and had been on the bus when the bomber...

American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh sentenced to 20 years in prison. Details coming.

John Walker Lindh John Walker Lindh had a key role in busting an alleged Buffalo-area terror cell, helping the FBI connect its members to an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan, the Daily News has learned. A source told The News that Lindh - who agreed to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a lighter sentence on terror-related charges - was asked about the alleged terrorist cell in upstate Lackawanna after authorities ran into a dead end. The FBI had gotten a letter in June 2001 from a "concerned Yemenite" alleging that eight U.S. citizens of Yemeni descent were...

<p>September 30, 2002 -- American Taliban John Walker Lindh enjoyed secret gay sex romps with his Muslim mentors, a new report claims.</p> <p>Married Pakistani businessman Khizer Hayat told Time magazine he was 21-year-old Lindh's lover.</p> <p>An imam from the Lindh's madrasah - an Islamic religious school - also hinted that he enjoyed carnal capers with the young zealot.</p>

He reported from their London based newspaper affiliate that Taliban traitor Walker told FBI that at least 50 terrorists were dispatched to this country to carry out parts 2 and 3 in their attacks against us. I cannot find a written newspaper confirmation. He reported that they said part 2 would be much worse than the first attack and part 3 would do us in!! I could only find the following report which lists thousands of terrorists.

Republicans smell blood in the 12th GOP sources in Washington express glee that the 12th Congressional District race -- a newly and Democratically configured district that stretches from the Athens area down to Savannah -- is suddenly looking competitive. When the well-known Barbara Dooley lost by an eyelash to college professor Max Burns in the Republican primary, many political observers all but put the district in the hands of eventual Democratic nominee Champ Walker. But Walker, who claims his own high name ID from being the son of Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker, lost his own hometown of Augusta...

<p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP)--A Muslim scholar who taught American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh for six months in a remote Pakistan village has been arrested by police in a joint U.S.-Pakistan operation, a Muslim leader said Tuesday.</p> <p>Mufti Mohammed Iltimas was arrested near the Afghan border in the village of Bannu, according to Qari Abdullah, a local leader of one of Pakistan's largest Islamic groups, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.</p>

It's too early to call it an avalanche of momentum or even a trend, but it is slowly becoming clear that the federal courts are backing the Bush administration in the legal war on terror. On Friday, the Supreme Court gave the Justice Department two minor victories in the area of immigration detention. The justices agreed to hear two important cases next term. Earlier in the week, a federal appeals court sided with the administration in the case of Yassir Esam Hamdi, an American citizen now currently held incommunicado as an "enemy combatant." Combine those recent rulings with the government's...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Three people who claim to be American citizens and who fought on the side of the Taliban militia are now in control of U.S. forces or U.S.-allied opposition forces in northern Afghanistan, senior defense officials said Monday.</p>

Fifteen thousand feet high in Kashmir and armed with a Kalashnikov–that was not how friends thought Jibreel al-Amreekee would end up. All of 19, the restless kid from Atlanta had grown up in a wealthy family attending Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. A soft-spoken youth with long dreadlocks, al-Amreekee had a passion for sky diving and reading books on the world's religions. One religion that drew his interest was Islam, and while he was at North Carolina Central University, that interest grew into a calling. By 1997, he had converted and was spending his...

'Jihad Johnny' Linked to Flt. 63 Shoe Bomber America's Tailban traitor "Jihad Johnny" Walker and Flight 63 shoe bomber Richard Reid were recruited to do Osama bin Laden's dirty work by the same extremist Muslim group currently operating all over the globe to build an anti-Western army to fight jihad, one Mideast expert contended Friday. "The French newspaper La Provence reported Tuesday that Reid had been an acolyte of Tabligh-i-Jamaat," reports Islamic scholar Steven Schwartz in the New York Post. "U.S. media disclosed last week that Walker had been recruited by a San Francisco cell of the same group." Schwartz ...

PRESIDENT: CALIFORNIA DEMOCRAT WILL FACE DEATH PENALTY IN CIVILIAN COURTS Press Briefing by the President THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I'm here to talk to you about the fate of the young California Democrat, John Walker Lindh, who was apprehended last November fighting alongside Taliban forces near Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Today, after several months of intense debate within my inner circle, I have decided to deprive Mr. Walker the dignity of a televised execution by military firing squad, and decreed that his effetely unshaven and malnourished carcass be thrown to the civilian courts, where he will face the death penalty before ...

Tale of an American Taliban In an exclusive, a U.S. citizen on the horror at Kala Jangi By Colin Soloway NEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE Dec. 1 — Abdul Hamid is tall, thin and barefoot in a filthy black tunic. A prisoner of the Northern Alliance, he sits with his elbows bound behind his back with a strip of cloth, his right leg and left foot bandaged for gunshot wounds. Hamid’s face is almost entirely covered in dirt and black soot, but it is quickly apparent that he is not just another beaten and frightened Taliban warrior. Abdul Hamid, age 20, ...

<p>The Marin, Calif., family of al Qaeda training-camp graduate John Walker has hit a new low. Father Frank Lindh and his wife Marilyn Walker (from whom Mr. Lindh is separated) are "disappointed" with the U.S. government's treatment of their 20-year-old son, who was captured on Dec. 1. In a statement released by family-retained attorneys, they complained they have yet to communicate with him.</p>

<p>KABUL (Reuters) - A 20-year-old American who fought for the Taliban and survived a bloody prison uprising in northern Afghanistan said his heart drew him to the hard-line Islamic movement.</p> <p>A Pentagon official said on Monday U.S. military forces had in their control a man who claimed to be an American who came into their possession in the Mazar-i-Sharif area, near where the prison uprising took place.</p>

Captured: Walker is now being held in an undislcosed location by U.S. forces ‘If He Wants to Die, He’s Going to Die Here’ EXCLUSIVE: Just hours before his death, CIA agent Mike Spann interviewed John Walker, the American Taliban. Here is an excerpt from that videotaped interview By Colin SolowayNEWSWEEK WEB EXCLUSIVE &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dec. 6 — &nbsp;Last week, just hours before Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners began their uprising at the Northern Afghan fortress of Kala Jangi, CIA agents interviewed John Walker, the 20-year-old American from northern California, NEWSWEEK has learned. The interrogation, which took place shortly ...

Lawyers for John Walker Lindh, the American who fought with the Taliban, claim he was systematically brutalised and threatened with 'torture and death' after US troops seized him. The claims come as his lawyers prepare to argue that he was a soldier of the Taliban, not an anti-US terrorist. At the centre of his defence will be his claim that the witness statement he provided to his FBI interrogators was given under duress and in the hope of ending his mistreatment. Lindh is being tried in an ordinary court and will not face the death penalty, unlike foreign prisoners, who...

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...

HASSANI KALAN SURANI, Pakistan (AP) - During his six months of study at an Islamic school here, John Walker Lindh expressed admiration for the Taliban and even talked of taking four wives as permitted under Islam, according to those who knew him. Lindh, known here by his Muslim name, Sulayman al-Faris, is remembered in this Pakistani village 165 miles southwest of Islamabad as a kind and earnest young man devoted to his religious studies. But, according to the recollections of some here, Lindh showed the telltale signs of militancy and even shared some of the radical Taliban interpretations of his ...

<p>December 4, 2001 -- The year 1997 was a critical turning point for high-school student John Walker. That's when he read "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," began wearing a white robe and turban, and changed his name.</p> <p>The conversion of John Phillip Walker Lindh from California teenager to grimy Taliban fighter and U.S. prisoner of war can be traced to the year he spent cramming for his high-school diploma at an alternative independent school in the San Francisco Bay area.</p>

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- John Walker Lindh's parents had the first word in the battle to shape his image, calling him a "good kid," releasing cute family pictures and suggesting he was brainwashed by the Taliban.</p> <p>The government painted a far darker picture based on his interviews with the FBI in Afghanistan, where he was captured in November. Attorney General John Ashcroft suggested Lindh alone decided to take up arms with the Taliban against the United States.</p>

<p>Maybe there will be a smidgen of justice for Johnny "Mike" Spann after all.</p> <p>Spann was the 32-year-old CIA agent who - shortly after interrogating John Walker Lindh - was savagely murdered during a prison riot in Mazar-e-Sharif.</p> <p>Who was responsible for this heinous murder of an American patriot?</p>

On July 15, 2002, Taliban John Walker Lindh pleaded guilty to criminal charges levied against him for his association with the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Heralded as a "surprise deal" by the Associated Press, Lindh's capitulation was anything but a surprise — not to me, nor to readers of Front Page Magazine. Ever since Lindh was flushed out of that prison basement in Afghanistan, I've been predicting that he'd cop a plea because of the strength of the government's case and the lack of a defense. For example, in February I wrote a piece entitled "Reading Brosnahan's Mind," and said: The...

Today's editorial pages are giddy with delight at the plea agreement reached yesterday in the John Walker Lindh case. Lindh agreed to plead guilty to two charges—aiding the Taliban and carrying explosives while doing so. The bargain was good for everyone. The government dropped all the serious charges, including its claim that Lindh had anything to do with the death of Mike Spann, the CIA officer killed in the prison uprising at Mazar-e-Sharif on Nov. 25. Lindh gets more jail time than the flimsy evidence against him warranted, and the government is spared an embarrassing trial and ugly disclosures about...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jul 22, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- The father of a slain CIA agent said Monday he wants to testify at a sentencing hearing for John Walker Lindh to tell the court the American Taliban was responsible for his son's death. Johnny Spann, father of Johnny Micheal Spann, said in court papers that he was not consulted about the plea bargain that would give Lindh a maximum 20-year sentence. The younger Spann tried to interview an uncooperative Lindh shortly before the government agent was killed in a Nov. 25 prison uprising in Afghanistan. Lindh pleaded guilty...

ABUL, Afghanistan, July 15 — They are mostly the faces of men now dead: wild-haired Taliban fighters sitting in rows, their arms tied at the elbow behind their backs, shown on videotape minutes before one of the most desperate battles of the war in Afghanistan. These are the men — among them Arabs, Pakistanis, Uzbeks and at least two American citizens, including John Walker Lindh — who fought in the prisoner uprising at Qala Jangi, the mud-walled 19th-century fort outside the town of Mazar-i-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan. Most were killed.The New York Times has obtained a copy of the...

John Walker Lindh Sunday, July 21, 2002 NASHVILLE — American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh is glorified and called Jesus-like in a country-rock song to be released soon by maverick singer-songwriter Steve Earle. The controversial ballad called "John Walker's Blues" is backed by the chanting of Arabic prayers and praises Allah. Earle's lyrics describe the United States as "the land of the infidel." Those fighting Usama bin Laden's declared jihad against the United States and Jews are said to have hearts "pure and strong." The song says when Lindh dies, he will "rise up to the sky like Jesus." Northern...

American conservatives are cheering Taliban John Lindh’s 20-year sentence (see for example, Washington Times editorial, July16). They would do better to step back and consider that if John Lindh can be coerced into a wrongful plea, so can they. The federal charges against Lindh are trumped up charges. Lindh did not go to Afghanistan as a member of a conspiracy to kill Americans. Lindh was fighting with the Taliban against other Afghans prior to the events of September 11. The Taliban were trying to unify hitherto un-unifiable Afghan tribes under the banner of Islam. The Taliban had nothing to do...

<p>July 17, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - New York Post readers overwhelmingly condemn as too lenient the 20-year prison deal for American Taliban John Walker Lindh, with many saying in an online poll that the traitor should have received the death penalty.</p>

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...

Although it came unexpectedly yesterday morning, John Walker Lindh's guilty plea to two of the lesser charges against him was no surprise to Bay Area Muslims who knew him and had little faith in his escaping punishment from the federal government. "We Muslims didn't have much hope for him," said Ebrahim Nana, who sits on the board of directors at the Islamic Center of Mill Valley, where Lindh studied and converted to Islam in 1997, when he was 16. Lindh, 21, grew up in San Anselmo; his father, Frank Lindh, lives in San Rafael and his mother, Marilyn Walker, lives...

<p>Family is disgusted.</p> <p>July 16, 2002 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The father of slain CIA Agent Johnny "Mike" Spann reacted angrily yesterday to the plea deal for John Walker Lindh - and charged that it's a blow to everyone who died on Sept. 11.</p>

<p>American Taliban John Walker Lindh is shown here on his attendance report card from an Islamic school in Pakistan.</p> <p>July 16, 2002 -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. - American Taliban John Walker Lindh faces 20 years in jail after striking a surprise plea deal, approved by President Bush, in which he admitted yesterday taking up arms with the enemy Taliban.</p>

<p>John Walker Lindh's guilty plea and minimum actual time in prison sentence of 17 years fully meet the demands of justice and the rightful anger of patriotic Americans. At this point, only the prosecuting attorney has been in a position to fully assess all the elements of the case against the despicable Lindh. Those who were expecting full prosecution on all counts and a minimum life in prison sentence should be assuaged by the reputation and track record of the prosecuting attorney, U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty. He is a known and admired quantity in activist conservative circles. As a former senior legal policy adviser to House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde, Mr. McNulty has been well-known as a tough, intellectually rigorous leader of conservative legal activism. If a better result were legally available, Mr. McNulty was the man to see that process through.</p>

WASHINGTON, Jul 16, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- John Walker Lindh took a journey, first in spirit, then in the physical world, that will keep him behind bars for what's left of his youth. He was a dream chaser from an early age. When he liked hip-hop in his early teens, he collected 200 albums. When he turned to Islam, he was transformed and went abroad, alone, to soak himself in the faith. All before age 18. On Monday he spoke as he usually seems to do, quietly, in addressing a judge. "I plead guilty," he said. "I...

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<p>ALEXANDRIA, Va. — John Walker Lindh, the California man captured while fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty to two charges Monday in a surprise deal that will spare him from spending the rest of his life in prison.</p>

<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On the very day last month that Mohamad Hammoud became the first person convicted under a 1996 law that bans aid to terrorist groups, a federal judge in California declared the statute unconstitutional.</p> <p>Though federal prosecutors expect Hammoud's conviction to stand, questions surround the future of the law as the government plans to use it against two major defendants: the alleged ''20th hijacker,'' Zacarias Moussaoui, and John Walker Lindh, the American accused of taking up arms for the Taliban.</p>

Ryan lost his own community in early returns Tuesday Hales Corners Village President Jim Ryan lost his own community as early returns Tuesday night showed Scott Walker leading in the race for Milwaukee County Executive. Ryan lost Hales Corners by a margin of 50 votes with 47% of eligible voters in the community turning up to vote. Early results showed Walker, a Republican member of the State Assembly from Wauwatosa, with a nearly 300-vote edge over Ryan. As of 8:30 p.m. River Hills, West Milwaukee and Hales Corners all went for Walker. With 10 of 463 precincts reporting, Walker had...

Taliban John: The Conventional Wisdom—And the Truth By Henry Mark Holzer FrontPageMagazine.com | April 16, 2002 NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE'S April 15, 2002, issue has published an article by Steven Brill titled, "End of Their Rope," carrying the subtitle "The Feds threw the book at John Walker Lindh, whetting the nation's appetite for vengeance. Too bad the evidence is so weak." Putting aside that the Justice Department has, unfortunately, not thrown the book at the American Taliban - he should have been indicted for treason (see www.talibanjohn.info) - Brill's analysis reveals how little he understands about the law of conspiracy that Lindh...

<p>Government prosecutors have the right charge for the wrong person.</p> <p>In their case against John Walker Lindh, they admit they have no proof that he killed any U.S. citizens in Afghanistan. Instead, they'll settle for an attempt to show that he was part of a "conspiracy to harm Americans."</p>

<p>Walker Lindh lost his bid to force prosecutors to present more specific charges against him yesterday, as US District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III issued ruling after ruling against the so-called American Taliban.</p> <p>Ellis did tell prosecutors that they must inform potential witnesses that Lindh's attorneys want to question them to see whether their testimony would be useful during trial. Potential witnesses who refuse to be questioned - including a confidential informant who may know what role, if any, Lindh played in a prison uprising in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of CIA agent Johnny Michael Spann - could be subpoenaed, Ellis ruled.</p>