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  • DJ Lindh's Former Teacher Arrested In Pakistan

    05/07/2002 9:14:52 AM PDT · by TomGuy · 17 replies · 211+ views
    DowJonesNewsWire ^ | May 7, 2002
    <p>PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP)--A Muslim scholar who taught American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh for six months in a remote Pakistan village has been arrested by police in a joint U.S.-Pakistan operation, a Muslim leader said Tuesday.</p> <p>Mufti Mohammed Iltimas was arrested near the Afghan border in the village of Bannu, according to Qari Abdullah, a local leader of one of Pakistan's largest Islamic groups, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam.</p>
  • Lindh Showed Zeal of Converts, Admired Taliban, Planned to Take Four Wives

    01/25/2002 11:15:48 AM PST · by KQQL · 46 replies · 300+ views
    Ap via TBO ^ | 1/25/2002 | By Hamza Hendawi Associated Press Writer
    HASSANI KALAN SURANI, Pakistan (AP) - During his six months of study at an Islamic school here, John Walker Lindh expressed admiration for the Taliban and even talked of taking four wives as permitted under Islam, according to those who knew him. Lindh, known here by his Muslim name, Sulayman al-Faris, is remembered in this Pakistani village 165 miles southwest of Islamabad as a kind and earnest young man devoted to his religious studies. But, according to the recollections of some here, Lindh showed the telltale signs of militancy and even shared some of the radical Taliban interpretations of his ...