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Article: A nation's anger toward John Walker Lindh softens.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2002
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Byline: Steve Goldstein
John Walker Lindh, 21, former Taliban member, felon.
John Walker Lindh, a.k.a. Abdul Hamid. Johnny Walker Yellow. The American Taliban. "The Rat." The hippie Benedict Arnold. Currently a convicted felon, awaiting formal sentencing next month to a 20-year plea-deal prison term.
Is this the outcome we wanted?
The nation was still white-hot with anger and sadness when we saw the images of a begrimed, wounded Taliban fighter, revealed under long hair and malnutrition to be the pampered son of upper middle-class Californians. Solemn and certain was Attorney General John Ashcroft, promising retribution for waging war ...