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A Long, Strange Trip to the Taliban( John Walker-complete with baby pictures)
Newsweek
| Dec. 17th
Posted on 12/10/2001 8:51:10 AM PST by Teacup
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Dec. 17 issue
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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To: Teacup
The best decision the US could now make would be to turn over Johnny to the Northern Alliance, who after all have the jurisdiction over such mercenaries, or to India, Pakistan or whatever country in the region, or simply to let him loose right there in Afghanistan. This would work just fine for the Bushies who, one suspect, are dreading a decision that, whatever it is, will result in continuing the performance of the media circus, which, as this article demonstrates, has already started. Johnny needs to disappear one way or another.
To: japaneseghost
"doodoo"And wasn't interested in sex? HMMM? ROFLOL! Very interesting.
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:21:29 AM PST
by
Teacup
To: LizM
That cover photo of Walker gives me the creeps. He looks possessed, doesn't he?
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:22:43 AM PST
by
Teacup
To: Teacup
He wanted to be told precisely how to dress, to eat, to think, to pray. He wanted a value system of absolutes, and he was willing to go to extreme lengths to find it. His father says he was not bothered when his two sons rejected the strict Catholic manner of his own upbringing.
Just a bit of disconnect here. Kids WANT boundaries in their lives. His parents didn't provide them.
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:26:10 AM PST
by
mombonn
To: Revolting cat!
He wanted to be told precisely how to dress, to eat, to think, to pray. He wanted a value system of absolutes, and he was willing to go to extreme lengths to find it. It seems that John Walker got no guidance or discipline from his parents as a child. So he went looking for it in all the wrong places. Had John Walker received parental guidance and discipline as a boy, he might not have been the man he is today.
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:26:10 AM PST
by
Loyalist
To: Teacup
Where is the article on the CIA agent who died and left a family behind. Let's hear about his life instead of this dirtballs.
To: Teacup
I'd like to ask him how he treated women while in the Taliban, you would think that this would e iportant to libs...
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:28:16 AM PST
by
Benrand
To: Teacup
Hell, I bet we could find pictures of Adolph Hitler as a sweet-faced little boy.
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:29:50 AM PST
by
ladtx
To: KSCITYBOY
Where is the article on the CIA agent who died and left a family behind. Exactly! It's Mike Spann's photo that ought to be on covers of magazines.
To: mombonn
That's what I picked up too. These "If it feels good, do it" liberal parents don't want to impose their values on their kids. Look at what happenes. I wonder how many other John Walkers are out there? I have a brother who thinks like this. His oldest son, got his live in girlfriend pregnet. My brother said, he could'nt impose his values on him son and tell him to married his pregnet girlfriend. He might get mad at him,LOL,LOL. Oh PUKE!
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:35:24 AM PST
by
Teacup
To: Teacup
[Walkers Parents] tried to be nonjudgmental, even supportive, about his conversion. They were proud of John for pursuing an alternative course, says his father.
Now, where could they have gone wrong? Arent most teenagers capable of making mature, rational decisions on their own?
Walkers parents were splitting up. Frank went to live with a friend, Bill Jones
Well, certainly, a bright, sensitive boy like John Walker who was given a good solid up bringing and strong mores by his loving parents could be depended on to make logical decisions, right?
He became convinced that he needed to go to Yemen
His parents, though strapped for money because of their separation, agreed to pay for it
Some kids go to summer camp to learn to swim and hike; some kids go to Yemen to prepare for a Jihad. You cant say one is any better than another (unless you want to go against egalitarianism, a tenant of liberalism.)
I dont think John was doing anything wrong,
Exactly, who are we to judge? Whats right and whats wrong? The leftist mind isnt able to comprehend such things and any attempt to is like the insane ramblings of the sighted man in the valley of the blind.
To: ladtx
Hell, I bet we could find pictures of Adolph Hitler as a sweet-faced little boy. Good point! I know, make him the Man of the year, LOL. Oh no, that's Time Magaine, right?
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:37:39 AM PST
by
Teacup
To: KSCITYBOY
Where is the article on the CIA agent who died and left a family behind. Let's hear about his life instead of this dirtballs.Absolutely!!!! I'd much rather hear about the CIA hero, than this pile of DOO-Doo.
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:39:36 AM PST
by
Teacup
To: SpringheelJack
Following up on that, it appears that John Walker's hatred of the military runs very deep. On a newsgroup, rec.music.hip-hop, Walker (signing his name as Disciple Of The Englober), wrote: "I only caught the last few minutes of the interview (on Tom Snyder), but I do remember that she had some subtly racist things to say. Apparently, she had joined the US military earlier in her life, so this is not much of a surprise."
Walker's message is dated August 15, 1995.
To: Right of Buchannan
In October 2000, when suicide bombers blew a hole in the side of the USS Cole as the American destroyer was refueling in the Yemeni harbor of Aden, Frank Lindh e-mailed his son to lament that some of the 17 young sailors killed in the blast were the same age as his son. Walker wrote back that bringing the U.S. destroyer into a Yemeni harbor was an act of war against Islam. His sons message raised my concerns, Frank told NEWSWEEK, but my days of molding him were over. OMG! How about calling the CIA and advising them of what this slim bag just told you, Mr Step dad? I would. I wonder if he was involved in the planning of the USS Cole explostion?
but my days of molding him were over.
What molding?????
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:44:38 AM PST
by
Teacup
To: Teacup
A video taken by an Afghan cameraman shows Walker sitting cross-legged, slumped silently before the two CIA men. Spann squats down and starts asking questions: Who brought you here? Wake up! Who brought you here to Afghanistan?You can still find the original video on the CBS News site. As of today, its on the web page http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,310701-412,00.shtml on the right side Multimedia menu.
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posted on
12/10/2001 9:51:12 AM PST
by
angkor
To: Teacup
I know this guys problem. He is mixing apples and oranges (check the picture)
To: VRWC_minion
Apples and organges, LOL. That's good.
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posted on
12/10/2001 10:11:32 AM PST
by
Teacup
To: Teacup
John Waker as a child. He's the son of a lawyer.
Don't forget to click on the slide show of baby pictures Newsweek has posted.
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posted on
12/10/2001 10:14:48 AM PST
by
Teacup
To: Teacup
He began wearing Islamic dress, a long white robe and pillbox hat, and calling himself Suleyman. His flowing robes raised some eyebrows, even in Marin County, which is deeply tolerant of almost any form of self-expression. And no matter how much he 'acted out', the parents nodded with total approval!
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