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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.
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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.
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
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* John Walker Lindh ( born 1981 ), aka John Walker, imprisoned American captured as an enemy combatant in 2001, in Afghanistan
The album's song John Walker's Blues, about the captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh created controversy.
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As shown on British Channel 4 news, Spann asks Lindh, " Are you a member of the IRA?
While on the USS Bataan, Attorney General John Ashcroft, on January 16, 2002, announced that Lindh would be tried in the United States.
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.
According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.
In 2010, Lindh and Syrian-American prisoner Enaam Arnaout sued to lift restrictions on group prayer by Muslim inmates in the Communication Management Unit.
* Hugo Race and the True Spirit recorded a song about Lindh entitled " Walker " on the " Taoist Priests " album ,( 2006 Glitterhouse )
* 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.
A young American named John Walker Lindh is found in the midst of the rebellion and extradited to the US on terrorism charges.
Two other new members appeared on this album: lead guitarist Lars Johansson and drummer Jan Lindh.
Anna Lindh died on the early morning of 11 September 2003, following a knife attack in Stockholm on the afternoon of September 10.
Anna Lindh was an outspoken campaigner for Sweden to join the euro in the referendum held on 14 September.
A number of commemorative gatherings were held for Lindh throughout Sweden and worldwide through the Church of Sweden Abroad, on 12 – 13 September.
The meeting room number 50. 4 on the fifth floor of the Justus Lipsius European Council building in Brussels was named Anna Lindh in her honour.
Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh was stabbed in the NK Stockholm store on September 10, 2003.
His appointment as acting Minister for Foreign Affairs following the death of Anna Lindh on September 11, 2003, was a short term solution.
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.
Mijailović had met Lindh at the entrance of the NK department store, when Lindh was on her way in.
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* 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.
Bo Lindor Holmberg ( 17 November 1942 – 10 February 2010 ), born in Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden, was a Swedish politician, Governor of Södermanland, and widower of former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh.
* After arriving in Konduz on 9 November 2001, he joined a group which included John Walker Lindh ( the " American Taliban ").
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Björn J: son Lindh ( born Björn Johansson Lindh, 25 October 1944 in Arvika, Sweden ) is a Swedish flautist, keyboardist and composer.
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