The convert to Islam met Osama bin Laden and joined the Taliban in Afghanistan before the Sept. 11 attacks.
CNN, the interview took place Dec. 2, 2001. By Rene Sanchez May 22 at 10:10 AM John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban,” is expected to be released from federal prison Thursday after serving 17 years for supporting the militants who harbored Osama bin Laden. This article about the discovery and capture of Lindh ran on the front page of The Washington Post on Dec. 4, 2001.
“I have seen military reporting saying that there are two other Americans in [Northern Alliance] custody — Americans believed to have been fighting for the Taliban,” the official said. “I can’t tell you their names or where they are, but I have seen that in military reporting.” Walker was captured with Taliban forces in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, and he was among a small number of survivors in an uprising by prisoners that took the life of a CIA officer last week. He emerged from the basement of a mud-walled fortress that had been turned into a makeshift prison, giving up only after Northern Alliance troops poured in oil and set it alight, then fired rockets into the underground tunnels and finally flooded them with cold water.
He said he was horrified by what had happened to his son, but added that he also wanted to give him a “little kick in the butt for not telling us what he was up to.” “He must have been brainwashed,” she told Newsweek. “He was isolated. He didn’t know a soul in Pakistan. When you’re young and impressionable, it’s easy to be led by charismatic people.”
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