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John Walker Lindh attacked in prison
Justin Pritchard

Posted on 03/06/2003 4:25:21 PM PST by Lizavetta

SAN FRANCISCO - John Walker Lindh, the American imprisoned for taking up arms for the Taliban in Afghanistan (news - web sites), was attacked by a fellow inmate and slightly bruised, his lawyer said Thursday.

Law enforcement authorities confirmed the 21-year-old Lindh was attacked but would not disclose a possible motive.

The incident happened Monday night at the medium-security federal prison in Victorville as Lindh was preparing to pray, said his lawyer Tony West.

"Our understanding is that the inmate tackled John and began hitting him while screaming obscenities before running off," West said in a statement. Lindh suffered a bruise on his forehead, the lawyer said.

"John is fine," West said. "He's in very good spirits."

A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: "It was a minor incident, a prison fight. He got a little scraped up, but he's fine. One guy was picking on him."

The official had no information on Lindh's attacker.

The FBI (news - web sites) said Thursday it was investigating.

The investigation started after the San Bernardino County Sun received an anonymous tip early Tuesday.

"Yes, I'd like to inform your newspaper that John Lindh Walker, who is incarcerated in Victorville, was assaulted this night by a white supremacist organization that is imprisoned there. Thank you," the male caller said in a voice message.

Lindh was sentenced in October to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to supplying services to Afghanistan's Taliban government and carrying explosives in commission of a felony.

He has been at the prison northeast of Los Angeles since January. Before arriving there, Lindh had been held at a federal lockup in Virginia. He was moved to be closer to his parents, who live in Northern California.

Lindh was placed in the general prison population last month at his attorneys' request and was working as an orderly, cleaning indoors where guards could watch him, the Sun reported, citing an unidentified prison source. The source said that since Monday, Lindh had been in special housing, similar to solitary confinement, for his protection.

Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Dan Dunne said Lindh "is housed in a unit which is consistent with his individual safety and security needs."

The prison has more than 1,650 inmates.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: lindh; taliban; talibastard; traitor
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1 posted on 03/06/2003 4:25:21 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Lizavetta
With all of the other important things the FBI is doing I sure hope they can get to this investigation with all the dispatch that is due.
2 posted on 03/06/2003 4:30:23 PM PST by kcar
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To: Lizavetta
Just like with Jeffrey Dahmer... It takes the other prisoners to carry out the proper justice...

Perhaps we could mail his attacker a knife...

FReegards,

3 posted on 03/06/2003 4:31:01 PM PST by Capitalist Eric
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To: kcar
Who is John Lindh Walker, If you are referring to the socalled american Taliban, his name is adubl bin screwup.

Remember that.

4 posted on 03/06/2003 4:36:10 PM PST by dts32041 (Do not attend a gunfight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with a "4".)
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To: Lizavetta
Law enforcement authorities confirmed the 21-year-old Lindh was attacked but would not disclose a possible motive.

You don't suppose that it was because he was lily-livered traitorous weasel, do you?

5 posted on 03/06/2003 4:36:53 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Capitalist Eric
It didn't take a knife to take out Dahmer. It took an industrial mop and a couple metal pails.
6 posted on 03/06/2003 4:39:40 PM PST by Catspaw
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To: Lizavetta
I'm only sorry to learn he didn't turn up dead today.
7 posted on 03/06/2003 4:40:16 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: Capitalist Eric
Perhaps we could mail his attacker a knife...

Like this?


8 posted on 03/06/2003 4:42:38 PM PST by Paleo Conservative (This space left intentionally blank.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Yep.
9 posted on 03/06/2003 4:45:44 PM PST by Capitalist Eric
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To: Lizavetta
Bet he doesn't make it to his first probation hearing which you KNOW he'll be set free.
10 posted on 03/06/2003 4:51:00 PM PST by caisson71
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To: caisson71
Considering his first probation hearing will be in about 19 years, I agree!
11 posted on 03/06/2003 4:54:01 PM PST by BullDog108 (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: fhayek
"You don't suppose that it was because he was lily-livered traitorous weasel, do you?"

He probably spurned the romantic advances of a talibone.

12 posted on 03/06/2003 4:59:03 PM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: Capitalist Eric
It takes the other prisoners to carry out the proper justice...

Ponder that. When law abiding men look to scum for justice and even celebrate such lawless "justice" what does that say about the "law"? Our culture? Our Country?

13 posted on 03/06/2003 5:00:10 PM PST by Burkeman1
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To: Burkeman1
It means we're far removed from a Constitutional Republic. I dislike Lindh as much as the next guy, but he has been deprived of his Right to Self Defense by due process of law, and the authorities are now responsible for defending him from attack.

I don't like the ongoing celebrations on some of these threads. It's almost as if some people don't understand what the contract between a free citizen and his government consists of.

14 posted on 03/06/2003 5:23:35 PM PST by an amused spectator
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To: Burkeman1
That we have too many liberal weenies running the show, to be able to mete out the proper amount of justice as a society.

If I can get a name of the guy who smacked Jihad Johnny, I might send him a carton of cigarettes.

15 posted on 03/06/2003 5:23:43 PM PST by hunter112
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To: Burkeman1
maybe we should all send the attacker some cigs? something to show we appreciate the effort.
16 posted on 03/06/2003 5:24:30 PM PST by Kewlhand`tek
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To: Catspaw
Dahmer was baptized about a year before he died. He never tried to shift blame for his crimes. He resisted his sick appetites for much of his life, and after giving in to them for several years, resisted them until the end of his life. He died repentant of his sins, and since he was baptized so late in life, and professed faith in Christ, there is every reason to believe he is in heaven.

There was no "justice" about his being murdered. Your suggestion that when prisoners commit crimes in prison, they are carrying out "justice" is sick.

17 posted on 03/06/2003 5:24:38 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Burkeman1
Lindh belongs in Oz: too bad its last season just ended.
18 posted on 03/06/2003 5:24:53 PM PST by Nick Thimmesch
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To: Kewlhand`tek
i wonder what will happen with leeboy malvo :)
19 posted on 03/06/2003 5:25:27 PM PST by Kewlhand`tek
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To: hunter112
I have reported you and the other people on this thread who express approval of beatings, murder, and rape in prison. FR does not need scum and garbage like that--people who applaud the rape of other men.
20 posted on 03/06/2003 5:27:42 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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