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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: txradioguy on March 19, 2019, 10:15:02 AM
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John Walker Lindh, a former American Taliban militant convicted in 2002 for supporting the terrorist organization, is due to be freed in May.
The former Islamist fighter, dubbed “Detainee 001 in the war on terror,” was arrested in 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan. Then just 20 years old, he was among a group of Taliban fighters who were captured by U.S. forces.
Within a year, Walker Lindh was convicted of supporting the Taliban and sentenced to 20 years in prison -- even as some hardliners urged authorities to consider treason charges that could have resulted in the death penalty.
Walker Lindh’s release later this year is likely to be met with headaches for security services across the globe, especially since he has since acquired Irish citizenship and plans to move there -- even though he hasn’t denounced radical Islamic ideology and has even made pro-Isis comments to the media.
The National Counterterrorism Center penned a document dated Jan. 24, 2017 claiming the former Taliban fighter remains as radicalized now as he was in 2001.
“As of May 2016, John Walker Lindh (USPER) — who is scheduled to be released in May 2019 after being convicted of supporting the Taliban — continued to advocate for global jihad and to write and translate violent extremist texts,” the Foreign Policy magazine reported.
The report added Walker Lindh told “a television news producer that he would continue to spread violent extremist Islam upon his release.”
It appears, however, that the Irish government won’t follow the example of the British government -- which rescinded a Jihadi bride’s British citizenship -- and won’t stop Walker Lindh from entering the country.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/american-ex-taliban-fighter-to-be-released-in-may-seek-to-move-to-ireland-despite-authorities-warning-he-hasnt-denounced-islamism
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Hopefully he'll be shipped to Ireland and have many close encounters with a shillelagh.
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Ireland has lots of experience with people who kill in the name of "religion". I"m sure they'll keep close tabs on him. Besides, he was close to serving his full sentence in U.S. Had he done so, you'd be stuck with him. Credit to Ireland for accepting the responsibility of supervising this individual.
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IMO if he's still hell bent on spreading a message of radical violent Islam...drop his ass off in Syria or back in Afghanistan and let him suffer the same fate as the other Taliban we've turned loosed back into the war zone.
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‘American Taliban’ Terrorist Freed After 17 Years in Prison
https://www.theepochtimes.com/american-taliban-fighter-to-be-released-after-17-years_2933970.html
ALEXANDRIA, Va.—The California man who became known as the “American Taliban” after his capture on an Afghanistan battlefield in late 2001 has been released from prison.
John Walker Lindh, 38, was released on May 23 from the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons. Lindh spent more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty to providing support to the Taliban.
The plea deal called for a 20-year sentence, but Lindh is getting out a few years early for good behavior.
Johnny Taliban is being released. He should of been executed. :mad: :argh: :bird: