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The ‘American Taliban’: A Case Study

The ‘American Taliban’: A Case Study
This combination of pictures created on April 17, 2019, shows at left a police file photo made available Feb. 6, 2002, of the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh and at right a Feb. 11, 2002, photograph of him as seen from the records of the Arabia Hassani Kalan Surani Bannu madrassa (religious school) in Pakistan's northwestern city of Bannu. TARIQ MAHMOOD,---/AFP/Getty Images
Ronald J. Rychlak
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You have probably heard that John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban,” has been released from prison. He served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for joining and supporting a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist military organization in Afghanistan known as the Taliban. He got three years off for good behavior.

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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