Talibanny Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree

Steyn Online ^ | 23 May 2019 | Mark Steyn

[Rummyfan]

John Walker Lindh - or Abdul Hamid, as he may well prefer to be styled - comes out of prison today. At the time we were assured he was just a goofy kid who'd gone off to find himself and accidentally found the Taliban instead. But here we are, eighteen years later, and he's even more fully committed to global jihad than before. And, for some reason, the Irish Government chose to confer citizenship on a convicted jihadist while he was in gaol, so we can at least stop calling him the American Talib and instead refer to him as the Shamrock Talib, or the Emerald Imam or Paddy O'Taliban or some such

[PGalt]

Many criminals never stop until incarceration or elimination. Witness rates of recidivism.

[wastoute]

I put $100 on Jihad Johnny running into a guy with the nickname “Jack Ruby” in the next 12 months.

[Lurker]

For later.

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[Don Corleone]

I put $100 on Jihad Johnny running into a guy with the nickname “Jack Ruby” in the next 12 months.

If the CIA or FBI was on our side I might agree.

[Pollard]

[bert]

On being released, he is available to be executed for treason

[Rummyfan]

He should have been executed years ago.

[Rummyfan]

...instead of being full of fearsome Pashtun warriors whose ferocious lineage rings down the centuries, the Omar/Osama ranks were like a novelty Gap ad, "Losers of Many Nations" – misfit Saudis and Pakis, Limeys and LaLaLanders. Anyone can walk in off the street and be assistant supervisor of the third-floor latrine in Tora Bora by nightfall. The only distinguishing feature about John Walker is that he's such an obvious compendium of clapped-out clichés from America's Left Coast the wonder is the mullahs didn't automatically take him for a CIA plant.

Yes indeed, a bunch of losers who never got laid....

[BuffaloJack]

We can only hope that he meets his 72 virgins soon.

[Rummyfan]

I'm not in favour of trying him for treason: Alan Dershowitz and the other high-rent lawyers are already salivating over the possibility of a two-year circus with attendant book deals and TV movies. But there is another way, suggested the other day by The Toronto Sun's Peter Worthington. In 1944, lacking the benefits of an immersion in Bay Area "critical thinking", the teenage Worthington volunteered for the Royal Canadian Navy. Unlike Walker's apologists, he at least treats him as an adult exercising free will. As Mr Worthington notes, on page four of John Walker's US passport, it states that any American who enlists in a foreign army can be stripped of his citizenship. Mr Walker wants to be Abdul Hamid; Mr Bush should honour his wishes. Let us leave him to the Northern Alliance and let his fancypants 'Frisco lawyers petition to appear before the Kabul bar, if there is one. It would, surely, be grossly discriminatory to subject Mr Hamid to non-Islamic justice.

Yes the Bush Admin should have treated this traitor much more harshly.

[petitfour]

But they whisked him back to the US. He would have been killed if left in Afghanistan. Who pulled the strings?

[Future Snake Eater]

Yes the Bush Admin should have treated this traitor much more harshly.

Bush never had the stomach for this war. Not even close.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

A Where in the World is John Walker Lindh/Abdul Hamid? tracking web page should be set up.

If his location is known righteousness may prevail.

[gandalftb]

Will he get a driver’s license?

Might want to keep an eye on that........

[TnTnTn]

He and Bergdahl can form a US based madrassa/ terror cell...the radical freshman house members can join and sponsor them...

[PAR35]

Ireland has always had a soft spot for terrorists.