Posted on 12/02/2001 2:09:35 PM PST by mdittmar
A 20-year-old American who fought with the Taliban and survived a bloody prison uprising near Mazar-i-Sharif last week has been taken into custody by U.S. special forces troops, Newsweek magazine said on its Web site on Sunday.
A spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which is running the military campaign on Afghanistan , confirmed that a man claiming to be an American was in the control of U.S. military forces.
``Military forces in Afghanistan do have in their control a man who calls himself a U.S. citizen,'' Marine Maj. Brad Lowell, a Central Command spokesman, said.
``He was among the al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners; he was held by the Northern Alliance in Mazar-i-Sharif. He is injured and is being given medical assistance by U.S. forces,'' he told Reuters.
The man, described by Newsweek as ``a white, educated-sounding, apparently middle-class American,'' who identified himself only as Abdul Hamid, was taken into custody on Saturday at a hospital where he had been taken for treatment of minor gunshot and shrapnel wounds.
The special forces soldiers who detained Hamid took him aside for treatment and later left with him, doctors told the magazine. A Northern Alliance military source said the U.S. soldiers had taken Hamid to Mazar-i-Sharif, Newsweek said, adding that U.S. forces refused to comment on his whereabouts.
Hamid told Newsweek earlier he was a Washington, D.C., native but indicated he grew up elsewhere in the United States. He said he converted to Islam at age 16 and later went to Pakistan to study the Koran, Newsweek said.
Hamid said he came into contact with Taliban teachings while studying in Pakistan and traveled to Afghanistan six months ago to help ``because the Taliban are the only government that actually provides Islamic law,'' the magazine reported.
He fought with the Taliban at the siege of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan and surrendered along with hundreds of other fighters after the two sides negotiated a deal.
Hamid later was transferred along with hundreds of other prisoners to Qala-i-Jhangi fortress west of Mazar-i-Sharif, where a revolt ensued a week ago. The uprising was violently put down by U.S. warplanes and Northern Alliance ground forces.
Several hundred prisoners were believed to have been killed. A CIA officer was among those killed in the uprising, the first reported American combat death in Afghanistan.
Yep. Hang 'em, publicly, and make the Communist News Network broadcast it on CNN round the clock for 24 hours.
Thanks and I agree--his parents should be held accountable. He is still a minor. And if not held accountable here, I'm sure they'll get an ear-full in the here-after.
Yeah right...that's why he said he supported the 9-11 attacks.
Spin, spin, spin.
bttt
Bumping into 2006, when, unfreepinbelievably . . .
Father defends 'Taliban' son in speech
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Mr. Lindh would have us forget how easy his son is getting off, and that Mike Spann was not so fortunate. . .
http://www.honormikespann.org/help.htm
You might come to this page and ask yourself, "what is it that I can do to help"?The greatest help you can give is by contacting your State and Local Representatives and voice your opinion on Mr. Walker-Lindh's lightweight sentence for crimes against Americans, and America.
I thought the war on terror was to get RID of terrorists (the son) and those who support them (the parents).
No quarter.
If what the father says is true, then why did his son not get killed protecting Mike Spann during the uprising where Spann was murdered?
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