Posted on 04/04/2007 1:24:59 PM PDT by SmithL
San Francisco (AP) -- The lawyer and parents of John Walker Lindh, the American-born Taliban soldier serving 20 years in prison after his capture in Afghanistan, called on President Bush on Wednesday to commute his sentence and set him free.
The renewed call to shorten the sentence was based on the relatively light term Australian David Hicks received Saturday after pleading guilty to supporting terrorism. Hicks, who had been imprisoned for five years at Guantanamo Bay and acknowledged aiding al-Qaida during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, was given a nine month sentence.
"In the atmosphere of the time, the best John could get was a plea bargain and a 20-year sentence," said Lindh's father Frank Lindh. "We love our son very much, he was wrongly accused when he was found in Afghanistan."
John Walker Lindh, 26, a Marin County native, was captured in Afghanistan in November 2001 by American forces sent to topple the Taliban after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and support terrorists but pleaded guilty in 2002 to lesser offenses, including carrying weapons against U.S. forces.
Attorney James Brosnahan brokered the plea deal and said it was the best he could do amid the political climate immediately after Sept. 11.
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It’s not about what’s best for him. Let him rot!!
Hillary would pardon him.
How many years was Scooter Libby sentenced to?
Yeah, sure...
Lemme put that in a book of Shiite that ain’t gonna happen...
I love the audacity of this kid...
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John Walker Lindh is a traitor to his country, and should have been hung.
I wonder if he killed any of our solders in combat?
Oh yeah, Afghanistan was at the top of my vacation list back in 2001.
Nah - I doubt that Jihad Johnny would ever be interested in the female sex - not that Nancy is, you understand. Elton John? Maybe!
He’ll have to wait for a ‘rat President.
No.
I'd just simply have him executed by firing squad within a month and have his head impaled on a stake in front of the White House as a warning to all terrorists.
“could end up spending many more years in an australian prison as well.”
Doesn’t that just put a smile on my face?
These people are worse than just the enemy. They are our citizens......and traitors.
Screw you, Lindh. You’ll get nothing and like it.
His philandering homosexual father should have walked into the John Muir Woods up in Marin, drunk an entire jug of Prestone ® antifreeze, and then laid down for eternal sleep as a partial apology to all Americans for his part in bringing his rotten son 'Taliban Boy' into the world.
In WWII we were planning on winning.
I wish we’d do that again.
Not only is that not gonna happen, but I'll bet that within a few years we'll have a Hollywood film proclaiming him (and them) great American heroes. Just watch.
Since Hicks gained so much weight, it will take him years, yes, years to loose the weight. Thus, the lighter sentance.
If we hold our own border agents as political prisoners in deference to Mexico we certainly can’t free an actual criminal and traitor!
Since it makes more sense to let Campeon and Ramos out of prison and keep Johnny Taliban in prison I’m assuming Bush will let him go and transfer the border agents to Gitmo.
I heard his lawyer and his father whining on the radio. It’s all Bush’s fault, and anyway, johnny taliban didn’t kill any Americans, according to them.
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