'American Taliban' Father Urges Clemency

Yahoo News (AP) ^ | 1/19/06 | MARTHA MENDOZA

[PzLdr]

Only if he has enough scratch, in small, nosequential, untraceable bills.

[PzLdr]

I think you've confused father , who I read somewhere, left Mom and Osama Wanna for another man [without being consecrated as an Esiscopal Bishop].

[Doogle]

According to the federal government, Lindh fought terrorism by signing up with the Taliban, attending al Qaeda seminars on how to kill Americans, staying in guesthouses funded by Osama bin Laden, sharing campfire tales about suicide terrorists being dispatched against the United States (just before 9/11 and practicing his anti-terrorism skills with rocket-launchers, pistols and Molotov cocktails (a favorite tool of anti-terrorism forces everywhere). During the summer of 2001, Osama bin Laden personally thanked Lindh for everything he had done to "fight terrorism and oppression." However, when Lindh was invited to take the fight against terrorism to U.S. soil, he declined in favor of a Rambo-style battlefield experience.

...*sniff*

[MediaMole]

While it was never proven in court, Lindh may well have had a hand in the death of Mike Spann during the prison uprising at Qala-i-Jangi.

Lindh deserves no clemency. He was and is a traitor to this country.

[newcthem]

How about letting the little creep out and post his location, in case a few Americans want to impress upon him, their views of his actions.

[martin_fierro]

"In simple terms, this is the story of a decent and honorable young man embarked on a spiritual quest," said Frank Lindh

In reality, nothing like that happened.

Better shut up while you're ahead, Lindh. Your boy's lucky to be alive.

[LibWhacker]

Hang him by his thumbs in the lobby of the CIA's headquarters for a year, no cameras or nannies of any kind watching over him. Let every employee give him a piece of their mind -- er, umm, or whatever -- each time they walk in or out of the place. What happens in CIA's headquarters, stays in CIA's headquarters.

[jocko12]

Just hang him.

[El Gato]

I don't know, sounds kinda liberal from their history, but here's the Commonwealth Club Website, figure it out for yourself.

[TexasCajun]

Frank Lindh said his son thought he had been rescued by U.S. soldiers until he was taken into custody and tortured.

What is torture to a 20 yr old kid from Kalifornia, No Eminem CDs?

[oldleft]

Even if that's true, how does that indemnify him over gleefully supporting the shooting in the head of women who had committed such heinous crimes as working or going outside, in the middle of a soccer stadium no less? This guy's a walking piece of s**t who should have been shot with the rest of them.

After an extended period of torture.

[GBA]

Either way, you're right about him being a traitor. 20 years is getting off easy.

[bkepley]

Well I know I'll catch flak for this but I could see Bush pardoning him on leaving office. I don't know if there's any evidence that he fired on US troops. If there is, then Bush probably shouldn't. I think the kid was mostly rebelling against his father over leaving his family for a homosexual life.

[SoldiersPrayingMom]

Oh...Really!! Let him out and he probably try to enlist to help OBL blow up some sight here in the US....just as the last OBL message to US suggested !!

[VOA]

Until now, his parents have mostly maintained a public silence about
the case, hoping to avoid a media barrage that could be detrimental
to their son.

Maybe more likely, Papa doesn't want any more scrutiny of his ditching
his wife and running off with his boyfriend. That was rumored to
be a factor in sending Taliban John on his strange odyssey.
IIRC, this surfaced when Taliban John was a news item.

[SoldiersPrayingMom]

Hear...Hear!!

[definitelynotaliberal]

I don't know about being "dressed as a Muslim" but he sure faked an Arab accent in speaking to his co-national captors. What an idiot!

[SoldiersPrayingMom]

I Agree...20 years is too lenient...he should have to hang high as a traitor!!

Even so, he'll still end up doing his 20+ years with all of the appeals, before they would actually get around to stretching his scrawny little neck!!

[usflagwaver]

It may lean liberal, I am not sure, but I have seen ads for some big conservatives there too. It is the place in San Francisco that most authors and others on the "speaking tour" will go and charge a fee to hear them speak.