Posted on 06/01/2002 7:53:08 AM PDT by EggsAckley
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:35 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- The federal government acknowledged Friday that an untold number of U.S. military service members took "souvenir" photographs of John Walker Lindh during the first days of his captivity, but it added that the images were destroyed because they were taken without military approval.
Randy L. Bellows, an assistant U.S. attorney, made the acknowledgment during a hearing in federal court here in which Lindh's defense attorneys had hoped to obtain copies of the photographs and videos. The defense sought to use them as potential evidence that Lindh was intimidated and coerced into making allegedly incriminating statements to U.S. authorities after he was captured late last year fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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Aw, lighten up. He's entitled to American soil . . . about six feet worth, I'd say.
We have fools for posters on Free Republic, which is a sign of God's sense of humor.
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No finer words have been spoken on this subject. All these people, both on FR and elsewhere that refer to him as an American irritate the hell out of me. As far as I'm concerned, the moment you put the uniform on of another country, you are no longer an American, and should not get special treatment if captured. He should be treated like any other enemy POW.
Agreed. There was no doubt about who he was and what he was up to.
He was young, but older than many of our soldiers. And certainly a lot better off and better educated than many of them. He had no excuse.
But he also clearly has no guts, and since Americans are "infracanophiles"(lovers of the underdog), he and his attorneys are trying their best to make him look like the victim, the underdog. And they'll probably get away with it, too.
hell yeah..
He was caught with forces hostile to the United States, not in uniform, and caught with forces whose comrades committed a horrific massacre of American civilians. In effect, Lindh was a co-conspirator by association. Lindh is very lucky, indeed. The pictures could have been of his head on a Marines' bayonet.
He should have been pumped for any information that could be obtained, then led to a wall and executed. Lindh gave up his citizenship when he allied himself with the terrorists. Lindh is a dead man walking.
What if he were fighting for the IDF or the French Foreign Legion? If we went to war with Isreal or France, would all the Americans be stripped of citizenship and killed without trial?
I don't approve of fighting for a country which is contrary to your citizenship. That includes France and, yes, even Isreal.
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