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American Taliban Released From Prison

esmith

Veteran Member
Seems that good behavior doesn't look at ongoing support for ISIS
According to the NCTC report, as of May 2016, Lindh "continued to advocate for global jihad and to write and translate violent extremist texts." In March 2016, the report says, he "told a television news producer that he would continue to spread violent extremist Islam upon his release."
Lindh had made "pro ISIS statements to various reporters," the Bureau of Prisons report also stated.
In an email to his father included in the BOP report, Lindh said that he was "not interested in renouncing my beliefs or issuing condemnations."
above from: John Walker Lindh: 'American Taliban' released from prison - CNNPolitics
 

We Never Know

No Slack
Seems that good behavior doesn't look at ongoing support for ISIS
According to the NCTC report, as of May 2016, Lindh "continued to advocate for global jihad and to write and translate violent extremist texts." In March 2016, the report says, he "told a television news producer that he would continue to spread violent extremist Islam upon his release."
Lindh had made "pro ISIS statements to various reporters," the Bureau of Prisons report also stated.
In an email to his father included in the BOP report, Lindh said that he was "not interested in renouncing my beliefs or issuing condemnations."
above from: John Walker Lindh: 'American Taliban' released from prison - CNNPolitics

If I remember correctly, even his own father said he shouldn't be released.
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Did he serve his time? Do we believe in the rule of law? Do the rules specify that someone who acted as he did in prison gets released after serving 17 out of 20 years? Those are the only questions that should be asked.

Otherwise we're talking about the law being unimportant and subject to the whims of those in power.
 

Ellen Brown

Well-Known Member
Even a casual student of History will see that there is more than enough guilt to go around. I remember reading about a story that came from before Islam started that complained how the Byzantines attacked the nomads along the Arabian Peninsula. So, perhaps even if early Muslims were murderous bandits, there was a reason for their ire?

Colonial powers were out pillaging and raping from the time of Christ on, and those same powers, in a different form still are. As to Afghanistan, the country seems to have been a nexus for war for a very long time. Russia invaded to get at the heavy metals they hoped would be there. And later, on the pretense of hunting Bin Laden, America did the same thing. Now China seems to be wanting to have their way with Afghanistan.

I can see a reason for the anger at the west because of our ravaging of the Middle East. England did the same with India and was eventually thrown out. Oil Baron interests still vie for the oil there, and likely will until it is all gone. I think that will take less than 100 years.

I can't excuse the actions of people like the Taliban, but I can understand their frustration, and anger.
 
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