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U.S. Taliban Fighter Pleads Guilty to Charges - CNN
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| 7/15/02
| Reuters
Posted on 07/15/2002 8:11:17 AM PDT by the bottle let me down
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) - John Walker Lindh, an American captured by U.S. forces during the war in Afghanistan ( news - web sites), has agreed to plead guilty to aiding the Taliban fundamentalist movement and carrying explosives, CNN said on Monday.
CNN said the plea deal was announced at a hearing at U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia, where Lindh's case was being heard.
Lindh had originally pleaded not guilty to a 10-count indictment charging him with conspiring with the Taliban and Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network, blamed by the United States for the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: binladen; johnwalkertrial; lindh; obl; plea; terrorist; trial
To: the bottle let me down
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posted on
07/15/2002 8:12:38 AM PDT
by
Bob Evans
To: the bottle let me down
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posted on
07/15/2002 8:12:45 AM PDT
by
Gurn
To: the bottle let me down
The
link to the CNN story.
To: Gurn
Yes. I just like Merle's music.
To: the bottle let me down
I heard one of the charges he plead guilty to was "carrying explosives during the commition (sp?) of a crime."
What juristiction over a 'criminal act' that is criminal in the US does the US have over anyone, including a US Citizen have when the 'crime' was committed in a foreign country?
To: Phantom Lord
By joining the Taliban/al Queda, he joined a conspiracy to commit a crime--terrorism against the US. As part of that crime, he carried explosives. Given that his first crime was joining an anti-US conspiracy, I don't see a problem with the US asserting extra-territorial jurisdiction.
To: the bottle let me down
He'll be out in 15 years :(
To: the bottle let me down
This is really awful news if you're CNN or any other network except Foxnews. It means the guy will get his due and the story will disappear as another opportunity for the media to bash the US.
Michael
To: the bottle let me down
Did he actually have explosives on his person? Or are they reclassifying ammunition as explosives? And if so, what is that going to mean to the rest of us as far as legal jeapordy through our ownership of ammunition?
To: BrooklynGOP
I'm thinking 5 years. Then he'll author a best selling autobiography and get whitewashed by academe. Life is gonna be good for this jerk. :<
To: BrooklynGOP
He'll be out in 15 years :( Or maybe 5! I'm not happy about this -- the guy should have gotten the needle for treason! Does anyone know if he has to serve every day of the 20 years, or if he's eligible for parole in two weeks? Wonder what the wife and child of the CIA person he helped kill thinks about this.
To: Bob Evans
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS............... Oh boy - now he will server 3-5 years and be free to get right back in his anti-USA activities. Lots of Muslim contacts in prison, so he will be primed and ready to go back to war when he gets paroled.
I still say this problem should have been taken care of on the battle field. They had no business bringing that traitor scum back over here. He forfieted any and all rights as a US citizen when he chose to join the army of an enemy state and actively paricipate in a war against the US.
Unfortunately, I think we all knew to expect this limp wristed treatment when they brought him back....
To: TheBattman
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To: Phantom Lord
Did he actually have explosives on his person? Or are they reclassifying ammunition as explosives? I don't know. I'd guess that he was carrying greandes when he was captured, or that in talking to the press he said that he'd received explosives training. But that's a guess.
To: the bottle let me down
If memory serves me right, until his pleading guilty, explosives have never been a part of any of the charges against him. Though it is well known he was armed with a fire arm.
To: TheBattman
Lots of Muslim contacts in prison The adherants of (Pr)Islam do to belong to the same religion as Johnnie Talibani. (Pr)Islam is more like a racist gang than a religion, kind of like a darker version of the Ku Klux Klan carrying Korans. I don't think that little Johnnie will get a very warm reception from them.
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posted on
07/15/2002 8:37:53 AM PDT
by
gridlock
To: KantianBurke
Then he'll author a best selling autobiography Under the terms of the deal, the government gets any of the profits from stuff he publishes. Look for an "as told to" with profits going to his parents.
To: the bottle let me down
They are consecutive sentences not concurrent? If so he'll stay in the slammer for a lot longer then the 3 to 5 years he'd serve if they were concurrent.
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posted on
07/15/2002 9:15:05 AM PDT
by
airedale
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