Parents of 'American Taliban' ask Bush to free him

[kpete]

Source: Associated Press

Parents of 'American Taliban' ask Bush to free him

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The parents of American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh are asking President George W. Bush to set their son free before Bush leaves office next month.

Lindh was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2002 to serving in the Taliban army, which violated U.S. economic sanctions against Afghanistan at that time.

At a news conference in San Francisco Wednesday, Lindh's mother, Marilyn Walker, asked the president to show mercy during the Christmas season by commuting her son's sentence.

Lindh initially asked for a commutation in 2004 and his lawyers have renewed the request each year.

The U.S. Department of Justice has never acted on the petition and a spokeswoman didn't immediately return a telephone call.


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[Dennis Donovan]

1. She's barking up the wrong POTUS...

Bush HAS no mercy for anyone.

[jbane]

2. They should let him go.

He was a dumb-ass kid who got in way over his head with the Taliban, was in the wrong place at the wrong time and paid the price. If he's ready to renounce terrorism then he should be free.

[beachmom]

5. He was also the first person tortured in the war on terror.

Yes, our first torture victim was an American.

[Bigmack]

3. He and Cheney should just change residences! nt

[beachmom]

4. Everybody should read Jessalyn Radack. She was at Justice when

John Walker Lindh was captured. They tortured him and broke rules. Because Radack spoke out, her life was destroyed: forced out of Justice, later fired from her job at a private firm, and they tried to disbar her, but luckily that failed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesselyn_Radack

Her diaries here:

http://jesselyn-radack.dailykos.com/

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Good information. Thanks, beachmom!

:thumbsup:

[Maat]

7. It WAS good information.

Bookmarked.

Thanks.

:patriot: