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American Taliban Fighter in U.S. Custody - Report
Reuters ^ | Sunday December 2 5:42 PM ET | Reuters

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abdulhamid; anotherabdul; johnlindh; liberalthink; mazarisharif; michaelspann; mikespann; talibanjohnny
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HANG HIM HIGH!
1 posted on 12/02/2001 2:09:35 PM PST by mdittmar
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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 . . .

A traitor should always be hanged. He is a traitor.

2 posted on 12/02/2001 2:14:29 PM PST by nicmarlo
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Sorry about the large image size, but I think I found his picture. Does anybody think he looks familiar?
3 posted on 12/02/2001 2:15:05 PM PST by Andy from Beaverton
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Saw him interviewed on CNN & they said his name was "John Walker." He's from Baton Rouge LA by way of Washington DC.

And now he's in the hands of our Special Forces? Good luck, John. Hope you like Guam.

4 posted on 12/02/2001 2:15:39 PM PST by Catspaw
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I heard on CNN that Abdul Hamid's real name is John Walker. Can anyone else confirm this?
5 posted on 12/02/2001 2:15:44 PM PST by SpringheelJack
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Yep, just heard the report not 30 seconds ago.
6 posted on 12/02/2001 2:16:25 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
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I guess he won't get the chance to have some DIN-O-MITE! straped to his chest.
7 posted on 12/02/2001 2:17:43 PM PST by Tree of Liberty
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You just know their going to let this bastard back into the states, he will probably get a 10yr sentance and be released on probation after a year and a half. I hope they at least beat the crap out of him when they picked his worthless ass up.
8 posted on 12/02/2001 2:17:47 PM PST by Husker24
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Hang him!
9 posted on 12/02/2001 2:17:57 PM PST by isthisnickcool
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I heard his name was Bert, I don't recall his last name.


10 posted on 12/02/2001 2:18:58 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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Isn't treason defined as giving aid and comfort to the enemy? Sounds like treason to me. Hang him.
11 posted on 12/02/2001 2:19:25 PM PST by IronJack
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13 posted on 12/02/2001 2:20:35 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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he will probably get a 10yr sentance and be released on probation after a year and a half.

traitor tommie daschle will be leading the parade of the bleeding heart liberals to preserve this traitor's life and set him free.

14 posted on 12/02/2001 2:20:44 PM PST by nicmarlo
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Bring 'em to New York City. The NYPD and FDNY will know what to do with this piece of sh!t.
15 posted on 12/02/2001 2:21:15 PM PST by F16Fighter
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I say give him to the Northern Alliance and let them deal with him
16 posted on 12/02/2001 2:21:45 PM PST by South Dakota
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Bring him to New York City first. We would like to see his Head on a stick! Then you can send what's left of the Traitor to Guam!
17 posted on 12/02/2001 2:22:16 PM PST by areafiftyone
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What a fool. Where will his Taliban brethren be when he becomes the sweet little b!tch of C block?
18 posted on 12/02/2001 2:23:26 PM PST by GiovannaNicoletta
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I say give him to the Northern Alliance and let them deal with him

Yep, would guarantee to eliminate the Daschle concept of justice (which is, if you think about it, injustice; but that's typical among the dems: right is wrong and wrong is right).

19 posted on 12/02/2001 2:24:26 PM PST by nicmarlo
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I've been jumping around from movies to news this afternoon and I haven't heard it in CNN or MSNBC. Has anybody?
20 posted on 12/02/2001 2:25:31 PM PST by johnny7
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