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Lindh and said
Lindh's attorney, James Brosnahan, said Lindh would be eligible for release in 17 years, with good behavior.

Lindh and prison
His attorney claimed to the press that he asked for a lawyer repeatedly before being interviewed but he did not get one, and that " highly coercive " prison conditions forced Lindh to waive his right to remain silent.
If convicted of these charges, Lindh could have received up to three life sentences and 90 additional years in prison.
* July 15 – In Washington, D. C., " American Taliban " John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to aiding the enemy and possession of explosives during the commission of a felony ; Lindh agrees to serve 10 years in prison for each charge.

Lindh and uprising
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.
Several hundred of the prisoners, among them American John Walker Lindh, came to be held in Qala-i-Jangi, a fort near Mazar-i-Sharif, where they staged a bloody uprising which took several days to quell.
* Got To Decide if He Wants to Live or Die Here ' - The interrogation of John Walker Lindh by Spann, shortly before the uprising in which he died.

Lindh and was
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lindh had been told to say he was " Irish " in order to avoid problems.
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.
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.
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:
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.

Lindh and by
Lindh went by the name Sulayman al-Faris during his time in Afghanistan, but prefers the name Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi today.
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.
On March 3, 2003, Lindh was tackled by inmate Richard Dale Morrison, who assaulted Lindh as he knelt in prayer and then ran away, leaving Lindh with bruises on his forehead.
In January 2009, the Lindh family's petition for clemency was denied by President Bush in one of his final acts in office.
In 2010, Lindh and Syrian-American prisoner Enaam Arnaout sued to lift restrictions on group prayer by Muslim inmates in the Communication Management Unit.
* Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh was assassinated on September 10, 2003, after being stabbed in the chest, stomach, and arms by Serbian national Mijailo Mijailović while shopping in a Stockholm department store.
* The 13 November 2001, Military Order, mentioned above, exempts U. S. citizens from trial by military tribunals to determine if they are " unlawful combatants ", which indicates that Padilla and Yaser Hamdi would end up in the civilian criminal justice system, as happened with John Walker Lindh.
Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt standing next to the bust of Alexander I of Russia | Alexander I, by Johan Erik Lindh ( Copy of original by Carl Fredrik von Breda ).
At the time of the attack, Lindh was not protected by bodyguards from the Swedish Security Service, a controversial predicament similar to that of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, the first murder of a government member in Sweden's modern history.
In April 2004, Lindh was posthumously awarded the ' Statesman of the Year Award ' by the EastWest Institute, a transatlantic think tank that organizes an annual security conference in Brussels.
On 2 December 2004, Mijailović was sentenced by the Supreme Court of Sweden to life imprisonment for the killing of Anna Lindh, overruling the appeals court judgement.
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.
* Volvo Personvagnar-från 20-tal till 80-tal by Björn-Eric Lindh, 1984.

Lindh and some
In 2002, former president George H. W. Bush referred to Lindh as " some misguided Marin County hot-tubber ".
There was some controversy when Dagens Nyheter on 27 September 2003 published the name and picture of Mijailo Mijailović, who was the suspected assassin of Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh.

Lindh and into
After gathering courage for a moment he went into the store looking for Lindh on several floors before he finally found her and carried out the attack.

Lindh and is
* In a National Geographic documentary, Taliban Uprising, the only video of Lindh speaking since his capture is shown.
* 2003 – Anna Lindh, the foreign minister of Sweden, is fatally stabbed while shopping, and dies the following day.
A young American named John Walker Lindh is found in the midst of the rebellion and extradited to the US on terrorism charges.
Lindh criticised the 2003 invasion of Iraq, commenting that " a war being fought without support in the statutes of the United Nations is a major failure ", but praised the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The library at the Swedish National Defence College ( Försvarshögskolan ) is named " The Anna Lindh Library " in her memory.
Mijailo Mijailović ( ; born 6 December 1978 in Stockholm, Sweden ) is the self-confessed and convicted assassin of the Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh, whom he stabbed on 10 September 2003 at the NK department store in Stockholm.
The Anna Lindh Memorial Fund ( Swedish: Anna Lindhs Minnesfond ) is a memorial fund started to commemorate the Swedish politician Anna Lindh, who was assassinated in 2003.
He is possibly most famous for his comic about Per-Olof Svensson, the formerly accused, subsequently acquitted murderer of then Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh.
" This is meant as a reference to John Walker Lindh, an American who fought for the Taliban.
Björn J: son Lindh ( born Björn Johansson Lindh, 25 October 1944 in Arvika, Sweden ) is a Swedish flautist, keyboardist and composer.
She is also the Founding Executive Director and the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
A scholar of foreign policy especially as it relates to human rights, genocide, and AIDS, she is currently the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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