I knew I shoulda taken that left toin at Albequoique.
Posted on 09/28/2004 11:42:55 AM PDT by GeneD
Filed at 2:14 p.m. ET
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Tuesday to commute his 20-year prison sentence for aiding the Taliban.
His lawyer, James Brosnahan, said Lindh was a young man in the wrong place at the wrong time. He said that Lindh was fighting alongside the Taliban in a civil war against the Northern Alliance, that he is not a terrorist and that he never fought against U.S. troops.
Brosnahan said the sentence should be reduced because Yaser Esam Hamdi, another American citizen captured in Afghanistan on suspicion of aiding the Taliban, is being released after being held for three years as an enemy combatant.
Hamdi will not be charged with any crime under an agreement with federal officials made public Monday. Hamdi will be required to give up his American citizenship and will be sent to Saudi Arabia, where he grew up.
``Comparable conduct should be treated in comparable ways in terms of sentencing,'' Brosnahan said at a news conference.
The request does not specify how much of a reduction Lindh is seeking.
Lindh's mother, Marilyn Walker, said her son ``has never had any sympathy or involvement in terrorist activity.''
Lindh, a California native, pleaded guilty in civilian court to supplying services to the now-defunct Taliban government and carrying explosives for them. He and Hamdi were both captured in late 2001.
Brosnahan said he negotiated the 20-year sentence during a time when a ``highest state of fear'' was affecting U.S. juries and he thought it was the best deal he could get at the time.
Yeah. That's going to happen.
Uh huh. Yet another "misguided" youth deserving of mercy. Enjoy your time in the service of the state, Johnny boy...
I knew I shoulda taken that left toin at Albequoique.
Except for, you know, FIGHTING WITH THEM!!!!
Unfrigginbelieveable. This "mother" should not be allowed to reproduce.
Perhaps Mike Spann's family might have an opinion concerning this.
Spann was killed by the people who Lindh was with at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Good grief is John Kerry using this same attorney for his slogans?
Why not? U.S. policy is releasing Gitmo killers to kill Americans again.
Let the putzfaced traitor loose---cannot be any more reprehensible than Kutnrun, a candidate for President.
Looks like he's pretty sure W will win the election! Otherwise, why not wait for Osama-John to grant the commutation? It'd just about be an automatic.
I bet he gets his ass whupped on a daily basis, if he's not someone's bitch already.
It's the "John Kerry Defense."
Screw him.
I think Lindt would be the perfect cellmate for Charlie Manson.
Tell me he was that stupid to use the phrase, wrong place, wrong time?
She's a Marin Country dingbat rusty Volvo wagon-driving DU.com earth hippie faux-Buddhist pothead MOVEON.org ctrystal healer who married a fairy and produced a Taliban-loving ratboy who adopted fundamentalist Islam during a 'phase they though he'd grow out of on his own'.
What can you do? She's an acolyte of Barbara Boxer.
I think he would be the perfect cellmate for John Kerry.
He was giving it up in Afghanistan! Now he is a Nazi Low Rider beetch
Yeah, teens are incorrigable when they are in their Islamist phase.
You know, Michael Savage's blasts against Ratboy were some of the best shows he ever had!
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