American Taliban John Walker Lindh Released From Jail

Daily Mail: John Walker Lindh is released from prison amid outrage at decision to free American Taliban after 17 years

* John Walker Lindh, 38, has been released from the Terre Haute federal prison in Indiana and appears to have walked free just after midnight on Thursday
* He served 17 years of a 20 year sentence for supplying services to a terrorist organization and carrying an explosive device
* The convicted terrorist is now thought to be traveling to Virginia where he is expected to live while serving a three-year probation term
* The Federal Bureau of Prisons has not confirmed Lindh's release but his inmate locator release date was altered shortly after midnight
* He was captured with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in 2001 and failed to warn U.S. forces of a planned uprising at the Qala-i-Jangi jail where he was held
* CIA operative Johnny 'Mike' Spann was killed during the uprising while Lindh himself was injured
* U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Lindh's release 'unexplainable and unconscionable'

'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh was released from an Indiana prison Thursday after serving 17 years of a 20 year sentence for supplying services to a terrorist organization and carrying an explosive device.

Lindh, 38, is believed to have walked free from the medium security federal prison FCI Terre Haute just after midnight local time and was met by his mother Marilyn Walker, 68.

The convicted terrorist is now thought to be traveling to Virginia where he is expected to live while serving a three-year probation term. He adopted the name Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi while in prison. Al-Irlandi means the Irish man.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Lindh's release and his attorney told the Washington Post that the terrorist was free.

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More News On American Taliban John Walker Lindh Being Released From Jail

'American Taliban' Lindh released as Afghan war still boils -- AFP
'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh gets early release from prison, Donald Trump 'doesn't like it at all' -- ABC News Online
'American Taliban' Lindh released from US prison: US media -- Al Jazeera
'I don't like it at all': Trump claims he tried to stop release of American Taliban John Walker Lindh but was told he is powerless and says: 'We'll be watching him closely.' -- Daily Mail
John Walker Lindh: Anger as 'American Taliban' freed -- BBC
Prison Letters From 'American Taliban' Underscore Concerns Over His Supervised Release -- NBC Los Angeles
Daughter and father of CIA agent who was killed after interrogating 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh in Afghanistan say his early release from prison is a 'slap in the face' -- Daily Mail

John Walker Lindh: Detainee #001 In The Global War On Terrorism Will Be Released In Two Years

Foreign Policy: John Walker Lindh, Detainee #001 in the Global War On Terror, Will Go Free In Two Years. What Then?

In leaked correspondence from prison, the ‘American Taliban’ refuses to renounce terrorism, says he wants to move to Ireland.

On Nov. 25, 2001, two CIA officers discovered a bearded 19-year-old English speaker among a group of captured Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

The bedraggled teen stood out. “Irish? Ireland?” a CIA officer asked the prisoner, who gave no reply.

He turned out to be an American. And hours later, one of his CIA interrogators was killed when the captured Taliban prisoners staged an uprising.

Photographed naked and bound, California-born John Walker Lindh became detainee #001 in the global war on terrorism and dubbed the “American Taliban.” Branded a traitor and terrorist back home, he was convicted of supporting the Taliban and sentenced to 20 years in prison in a media firestorm that captured the zeitgeist of the post-9/11 era.

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WNU Editor: He is going to be the first of many as their prison sentences run out. Sighh .... I prefer to remember Johnny Micheal Spann .... Remembering Johnny Micheal Spann (Legal Insurrection).