Lindh had previously received training with Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, an internationally designated terrorist organization based in Pakistan.

Frank Lindh stated that they had been effectively separated since 1997.

Despite this assertion, Lindh had multiple opportunities to announce his American citizenship.

Lindh said that the prison uprising was sparked by some of the prisoner guards smuggling grenades into the basement, " This is against what we had agreed upon with the Northern Alliance, and this is against Islam.

Pelton knew Lindh was receiving his first medical treatment since being shot in the leg more than a week prior and had been given morphine by a medic prior to Pelton's interview.

Anna Lindh was married to Bo Holmberg, the governor of Södermanland, her home constituency for over twenty years, with whom she had two sons.

Swedish newspapers have suggested that Mijailović was released from a mental institution just five days before the killing of Lindh, that he has serious mental problems, and had previously been convicted of violent crimes.

On 6 January 2004, after being presented with the evidence against him, Mijailović confessed to the police that he had stabbed Anna Lindh, without the intention to kill her.

Mijailović had met Lindh at the entrance of the NK department store, when Lindh was on her way in.

Mijailović also revealed in the interview that he had wanted to attack the politician Lars Leijonborg the day before the murder of Lindh ( see above ), but that he did not have his knife with him at the time.

On December 7, 2001, John De Pue, a counter-terrorism prosecutor, contacted Radack's office for advice as to whether the FBI could interrogate the recently detained " American Taliban " John Walker Lindh even though his father had retained an attorney for him.

On March 7, 2002, Assistant U. S. Attorney Randy Bellows, the lead prosecutor in the Lindh case, contacted Radack to confirm that he was possession of everything she had written on the Lindh matter.

This had been the case in the convictions of John Walker Lindh and Harold James Nicholson.

However, as of 2010, neither Lindh nor Nicholson have had their crime cases publicized in such a manner.

The Juvenalorden, or " Juvenal Order ", of 1907 was founded on the initiative of then student, later clergyman August Lindh, remembered for his widespread Swedish translation of the German student song O alte Burschenherrlichkeit ( in Swedish: Gamla klang-och jubeltid ), and with a tenuous connection to the original society in the form of the aging physician M. Aspelin, who had during his student days in Uppsala been introduced into the Juvenals by its principal figure, the poet and composer Gunnar Wennerberg ( 1817-1901 ) himself.

Though much has been made of the fact that Lindh did meet Osama bin Laden, his association with bin Laden was only a passing encounter and not an affiliation.

The court scheduled an evidence suppression hearing, at which Lindh would have been able to testify about the details of the torture to which he claimed he was subjected.

For example, John Walker Lindh has been referred to as " an American Taliban ", rather than " an American Talib ".

" It could have been someone other than Anna Lindh.

In one, his father told him about the USS Cole bombing, to which Lindh replied that since the American destroyer was in the Yemen harbor, it was an act of war against Islam and therefore justified.

The judge asked Lindh to say, in his own words, what he was admitting to.

In the second week of January 2002, he was flown to the USS Bataan in the northern Arabian Sea, the ship which was being used to hold eight other notable prisoners, including John Walker Lindh.

John Phillip Walker Lindh ( born February 9, 1981 ) is a United States citizen who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States ' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

Lindh was born in Washington, D. C. to Marilyn Walker and Frank Lindh.

Lindh was captured on November 25, 2001, by Afghan Northern Alliance forces after his Al-Qaeda foreign fighters unit surrendered at Kunduz after retreating from Takar.

" He was asked this question because, when questioned by Spann, an Iraqi in the group identified Lindh as an English speaker.

According to other captives interviewed by Robert Young Pelton for CNN, Lindh was fully aware of the planned uprising, yet remained silent and did not cooperate with the Americans.

Sometime during the initial uprising Lindh was shot in the right upper thigh and found refuge in a basement, hiding with a group of Saudi, Uzbek, and Pakistani detainees.

Shortly after his recapture, Lindh was noticed and interviewed by Pelton, who was working as an embedded journalist and stringer for CNN.

While under the influence of morphine, Lindh stated that he was a member of al-Ansar, a group of Arabic-speaking fighters financed by Osama bin Laden.

Upon his capture, Lindh was given basic first aid and then questioned for a week at Mazār-e Sharīf, before being taken to Camp Rhino on December 7, 2001, the bullet still within his thigh.

When Lindh arrived at Camp Rhino he was stripped and he was restrained to a stretcher, blindfolded and placed in a metal shipping container, which was procedure for dealing with a potentially dangerous detainee associated with a terrorist organization.

Although the FBI asked Jesselyn Radack, a Justice Department ethics advisor, whether Lindh could be questioned without a lawyer present, her advice that this should not be done was not followed.

On February 5, 2002, Lindh was indicted by a federal grand jury on ten charges:

Ellis, III, issued a discovery order in the Lindh case, requiring that the Justice Department's internal communications be turned over to him for determination as to which documents should be provided to the defense team.

Likewise, as part of a plea bargain John Walker Lindh consented to a gag order to not talk to the press or others.

* 2002 – " American Taliban " John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in FBI custody.

* 2002 – " American Taliban " John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.

Lindh received training at Al-Farouq, a training camp in Afghanistan associated with Al-Qaeda.

Lindh went by the name Sulayman al-Faris during his time in Afghanistan, but prefers the name Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi today.

Lindh suffered from an intestinal disorder as a child.

Lindh subsequently left the school and eventually earned an equivalent of a high school diploma by passing the California High School Proficiency Exam at age 16.

As an adolescent, Lindh participated in IRC chat rooms with the IRC nickname Mujahid.

In 1997, Lindh officially converted to Islam and began regularly attending mosques in Mill Valley, and later, in nearby San Francisco.

In 1998 Lindh traveled to Yemen, and stayed for about 10 months to learn Arabic so that he could read the Qur ' an in its original language.

While abroad, Lindh sent numerous emails to his family.