Posted on 07/09/2011 9:29:22 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
John Walker Lindh following his capture by US troops in December 2001.
John Phillip Walker Lindh, my son, was raised a Roman Catholic, but converted to Islam when he was 16 years old. He has an older brother and a younger sister. John is scholarly and devout, devoted to his family, and blessed with a powerful intellect, a curious mind, and a wry sense of humour.
Labelled by the American government as "Detainee 001" in the "war on terror", John occupies a prison cell in Terre Haute, Indiana. He has been a prisoner of the American government since 1 December 2001, less than three months after the terror attacks of 9/11.
John is entirely innocent of any involvement in the terror attacks, or any allegiance to terrorism. That is not disputed by the American government. Indeed, all accusations of terrorism against John were dropped by the government in a plea bargain, which in turn was approved by the US district court in which the case was brought.
Despite its proud history as a stable constitutional democracy, the US has, for 10 years, been affected by post-traumatic shock, following the horrific events of 11 September 2001. I can find no other explanation for the barbaric mistreatment and continued detention of a gentle young man like John Lindh.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
The Truth about John Walker Lindh
By: Robert Young Pelton (b. July 25, 1955, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), is an author, journalist and documentary filmmaker
John Walker Lindh aka John Walker aka Suleiman Ferris aka Abdul Hamid aka The American Taliban is a person that I will mostly likely to be associated for some time to come. I am sure on my obituary there will be a bombastic note that I was “the journalist who “discovered” Lindh after the battle at Qali Jangi” (the afghans have that dubious honor) Many have told me that Lindh’s story was a big deal back in the States. I will never know. I was in Afghanistan covering combat operations with in the ongoing war against the Taliban for CNN so I will never have the chance to the get the full impact of finding an American professing his love for the Taliban.
To me Lindh was just an unpleasant arrogant kid who preferred to stay with his murdering friends. He was, in fact, the second Irish-American Jihadi I have met and interviewed. The first one was a one-legged psychopath who had been trained in the same camps and had fought in Kashmir, Kosovo, Bosnia, Chechnya and Liberia gave me his opinion. When I called him to discuss Lindh’s hejira, Aqil Collins simply called Lindh “a pussy.” When I returned from Afghanistan I was quite aware of the outrage he had caused. In a deliberate effort not to influence his pending case, I did only interviews in which I spoke positively about Lindh.
Privately I warned his lawyers to keep me off the witness stand because I would send their little Johnny to prison. Wisely, Lindh copped a plea and I was spared months of inconvenience. Some people wanted a trial to get to the bottom of Lindh’s nefarious activities, among them the grieving family of Mike Spann. Lindh’s plea bargain denied them and the country of that truth finding.
So it was left to me to set the record straight. My decades of travels with jihadis and terrorists, my time with both the Taliban leadership, the Northern Alliance (aka the United Front), Dostum’s forces — as well as my own time spent during and after talking to the players involved with Qali Jangi — lead me to believe that I am uniquely qualified to pass judgment on Lindh and to accurately describe who he was and what he was doing there.
Now that Lindh’s father has decided to wrongly blame me for his son’s misery and seek clemency under false pretenses, I feel its time to reveal the truth.
Quite simply, in my opinion, Lindh was a terrorist, a member of what we call al Qaeda, and a man who chose to stay with killers even though he was afforded numerous opportunities to separate himself from his murderous associates. Twenty years in jail may be a blessing compared to how many of his friends have been dealt with since.
http://www.honormikespann.org/pdfs/pelton_feb2006.pdf
Excuse me while I wipe the tears away, for this poor,poor victim of circumstance.
Unless he has 24 security, he won’t be around for long once he’s released.
According to other captives interviewed by Robert Young Pelton for CNN, Lindh was fully aware of the planned uprising, yet remained silent and did not cooperate with the Americans.. Lindh did not report his American citizenship to his captors, despite the fact that it might have provided him better treatment.
Lindh was noticed and interviewed by Pelton, who was working as an embedded journalist and stringer for CNN. Lindh initially gave his name as “Abd-al-Hamid” but later gave his birth name. Pelton brought a medic and food for Lindh and interviewed him about how he got there. Lindh stated that he was a member of al-Ansar, a group of Arabic-speaking fighters financed by Osama bin Laden. Lindh said that the prison uprising was sparked by some of the prisoner guards smuggling grenades into the basement, “This is against what we had agreed upon with the Northern Alliance, and this is against Islam. It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations”.
A US Army Special Forces operative, fresh from 3 weeks of combat, then gave up his bed so that the wounded Lindh could sleep there.
Repeatedly Pelton asked Lindh if he wanted to call his parents or have Pelton do so, but Lindh declined. Pelton knew Lindh was receiving his first medical treatment since being shot in the leg and had been given morphine by a medic prior to Pelton’s interview; however, medically speaking, morphine in the doses given as analgesia for a gunshot wound would not be strong enough to produce the mental effects necessary to prevent him from understanding Pelton’s repeated questions as to whether or not he wanted to make contact with them.
These folks, with their scrambled brains, are just hard to take seriously!
I’ll bet his son was a big hit on “man love” Thursday...
My only regret is that Lindh did not survive Afghanistan to wind up sharing a bed with bin Laden when American special forces decided to drop in and pay a visit.
Oh my gosh, I cant’ even read this, but I will go back and read it and then I will know how truly demented this man, Lindh Pere, is.
These people raised this kid with NO VALUES and thought it was hunky dory when he became a jihadi.
Insofar as I’m concerned they should throw the father right in the cell with him, to YES, do the TIME.
Isn’t the father a homosexual who left his family? And he thinks there’s no rift with his son?
Or is that some other convert jihadi I’m thinking of?
I love how he tell his son I think you’ve always been a Muslim. Really? Really?!?! I doubt this man knew one darn thing about Islam.
If my kid ever tells me she’s becoming a Muslim, well that’s not gonna be a good day, let’s put it that way.
Any decent person in his position would have drunk poison by now and left a note of apology to just about everyone on the planet for being world's worst father. I'm sure that all those in Japan who are aware of who Frank Lindh is can't even believe that he's still alive by choice.
I bet the Lindh daughter just can't wait to get married and change her name. Her future in-laws whoever they will be will just be thrilled over the thought of having nationally-loathed Jihad Dad and his gay lover at the wedding with a hundred guests shooting dirty looks at them the whole day. Oh, and just wait until the alcohol starts loosening tongues at the reception.
I'd actually PAY to go to her wedding if her dad shows up and when they get to the part where "Who so objects to this man and woman bonding in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold his peace", I'd shout from the back of the room 'LooLooLooLooLooLooLoo!' like an Arab with a reception dinner tablecloth wrapped around my head like a turban.
Poor girl is probably going to get left at the altar a few times, I expect. Oh thanks Jihad Dad for ruining everyone's lives in this family.
He’ll have the same level of security Farrakhan has. The Islamists have big plans for him when he gets out. They think he’s a superstar.
“Same with O.J. Simpson”
Wait, what? Is OJ gay? Or was his father gay?
Sign me,
Just Curious
Hitler comes to mend
Hitler comes to mind
A firing squad would have been too good for him.
What he deserved was a simple shot to the gut and a slow painful bleed-out on some stony ground.
O.J. Simpson’s father Jimmy Lee came out of the closet and left him and his mother. He became a well-known San Francisco drag queen and ended up dying of AIDS in 1986.
We should have greased that little faggot on the battlefield.
You mean Rat Boy?
And next time, this father of a terrorist traitor ought to read the Constitution, specifically Article 3 Section 3.
He was captured on the battlefield, an American fighting Americans, without a uniform, therefore a traitor. Any treatment of him short of a firing squad is a display of mercy. He isn’t dead. He wakes up each morning, gets to drink coffee and eat breakfast. Be thankful, Dad.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.So how to best redeem the lives of those JWL took . . . ?
The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
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