“The Islamic State is clearly very sincere and serious about fulfilling the long-neglected religious obligation to establish a caliphate through armed struggle, which is the only correct method.” Abdul Hamid aka Abu Sulayman nee John Walker Lindh.
We’ve come full circle. One terrible, awful circle. If ever one wanted a reason to forbid the return of Islamic fighters this is it. Abdul Hamid aka Abu Sulayman (nee John Walker Lindh) was one of the earliest stories I covered when I began this news site back in 2004. Sulayman nee Lindh was a U.S. citizen who had converted to Islam and joined the Taliban. He was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States’ invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001. He was captured and detained at Qala-i-Jangi fortress. He took part against the US in the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, a violent uprising of Taliban prisoners, during which the CIA officer Johnny “Mike” Spann was killed. Just hours before his death, CIA agent and America hero Mike Spann interviewed this traitor. Not long after, Spann was killed when Muslim prisoners emerging from the fortress rushed the guards, throwing grenades and grabbing their captors’ rifles.
The first American killed in … Afghanistan… on November 25, 2001. Spann was a CIA operative, one of a small number of Americans who landed in Afghanistan, helped coordinate local forces hostile to the Taliban, and directed bombing and other military action. The story of this small band of men has been told, but not told enough. Spann was killed during the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi when Taliban prisoners gained access to weapons and attacked. Spann was killed during that uprising (see video). One of the prisoners was the so-called American Taliban, John Walker Lindh, who Spann interrogated shortly before Spann’s death. Legal Insurrection)
Story continues below advertisement‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh wrote in letter that ISIS was ‘doing a spectacular job’
By Yaron Steinbuch, NY Post, May 23, 219:
Notorious “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, who was released from prison Thursday, has expressed support for ISIS, saying the terror group was “doing a spectacular job,” according to a newly released letter.
“The Islamic State is clearly very sincere and serious about fulfilling the long-neglected religious obligation to establish a caliphate through armed struggle, which is the only correct method,” Lindh wrote in a 2015 letter from prison to NBC’s KNBC in Los Angeles.The 38-year-old, who was captured fighting with the Afghan Taliban shortly after the 9/11 attacks, is expected to be sprung Thursday from a prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, after serving more than 17 years.
His plea deal called for a 20-year sentence, but he was released a few years early for good behavior amid concerns by US authorities that he remains a potentially violent extremist.
Lindh expressed remorse and denounced terrorism when he was sentenced in 2002, saying he did not support terrorism and that he had made a “mistake by joining the Taliban.”
But in his correspondence to the LA station, he expressed vastly different sentiments, saying he was proud “to take part in the Afghan jihad,” according to NBC News. In his letters, he signed his name as Yahya.
Among those who oppose his release is the family of CIA officer Johnny Spann, who was killed in Afghanistan during an uprising of Taliban prisoners. Spann had interrogated Lindh shortly before the attack.
Lindh expressed his sentiment about ISIS in response to a question from KNBC about whether the terror group represents Islam after the jihadists had beheaded Americans, including journalist James Foley in 2014.
In his fourth and final letter to the station, Lindh said he would no longer respond to a reporter’s question about ISIS.
Based on Lindh’s correspondence with journalists and other statements he made behind bars, the National Counter Terrorism Center said in a 2016 intelligence document that he “continued to advocate for global jihad and to write and translate violent extremist texts.”
A US official told NBC News that Lindh will live in Northern Virginia, where he will be subject to strict monitoring of his internet use, banned from international travel and undergo mental health counseling.
“It is one of the most restrictive sets of conditions I’ve seen in a terrorism case, and it probably speaks to their concerns about him,” former US intelligence official Seamus Hughes told NBC News.
Although the terms of his supervised release last three years, officials told the network that the FBI is likely to keep a close eye on him.
Worries about Lindh’s radical views were the subject of a 2017 piece in Foreign Policy magazine, but they have not been widely publicized.
One expert said Lindh should clarify his views about ISIS.
“John Walker Lindh served his time. Given the support for ISIS expressed in this letter from four years ago, it would be important for Lindh to go on record declaring his intentions to live a peaceful and constructive life and to renounce terrorism and violence,” said Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham University’s Center on National Security, told NBC.
“Without that, allegations, confusion and anger will likely continue to surround him.”
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I think I’d give a 100 to 1 odds that he’s a democrat.
I’m sure the Democrats want him to be free to exercise his “right to vote”. With his continued advocacy for global jihad and his writing/translating violent extremist texts, he’s a walking poster boy for why felons should not have that legal right.
Sometimes people just disappear without a trace. Anyone ever watch the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes”?
I agree; Fried Green Tomatoes is an awesome movie. The POS in the movie got his just reward, as should Lindh. I am sure there are those out there who wouldn’t pause a second to send him to Paradise, so he can get his reward 72 male virgins.
Secret’s in the sauce…
Pork or bacon gravy you say?????
Also, there’s always tar and feathers….if it was good enough for our forefathers, why not bring it back?
But how can you fry a tomatoe?
Fried green tomatoes is a wonderful side dish of the South. Basically it’s taking tomatoes that are still green, slicing them, breading and frying. Delicious.
So they’re not ripe. Is it similar to fried zucchini or onion rings?
Closer fried zucchini. You want the tomatoes to be ready to start turning, not too green.
I’ll have to try some, although I have no idea where I’d get it.
Grow some tomatos. Pick em green. Slice. Let sit 30 minutes with a slight bit of sugar on them (cuts the acid). Dredge in milk and flour and fry. They’re best with some kind of sour cream and maybe dill sauce….. we only fry them in the fall when they won’t turn red and you still have lots on the vine.
I’m not much of a cook, I could ruin oatmeal.
And sometimes people who disappear, are never missed.
Wanda and Maryann were the best of friends….. and Earl ended up in that tarp too. A missing person who nobody missed at all.
How long before he does his next attack on Americans. We are the stupidest country.
Only three words to describe him, “Dead Man Walking”.
Bang.
He’ll be showing up as a darling of leftist media before you can count to three, all the talk shows, specials, interviews, etc., just watch.
Maybe he’ll get an appointment to one of the fine, islamic indoctrination camps that are unis and colleges today!
This is sick and perverse considering the kind of sentence Pollard received.
I call him ….. The Man of a Journey …
his life is very inspiring .. how he made such a long dangerous journey to find words of God ..
I believe he is inspiring many people …
That’s because you are deluded with years of donkey spunk polluting your brain.
well …he made such a long dangerous journey to find God’s words …while you spent your time watching & making porn in your hometown ..day in ..day out ..year in ..year out …since teenage ….
don’t you notice the contrast ???
LOL …
The only “contrast” I noticed, cowboy, was how you responded before and after you ingested donkey spunk. Cheers!
yeah … your vocabulary isn’t far from those ‘spunk’ stuff …
look at how your lifetime porn journey has benefitted your spunk filled head …
Porn must always rears its ugly head with you, eh sport? That’s ok. That’s all you’ve ever known. Keep up the fellatio skills. Maybe someday you can get someone other than your dad to pay you for it. Cheers!
LOL.
On the donkey spunk, you have to cut semen jerkoff some slack. His male offspring weren’t around for him to blow.
Yes, they were probably out that day doing Bachi Baza, or whatever they call it, duties.
You never notice the difference between a goat’s rectum and a sheep’s rectum….you just go right in there and go to work, don’t you, semen ???
of course i never notice it ….
btw .. your personal expertise to distinct goat’s and sheep’s rectum is not uncommon in rectum lifestyled society ..
semen….your beastiality expertise is by far above and beyond anyone else’s in this world or any other…..your parents must be so proud of their little goathumper !!!!!
Just what happens in the daily life of a resident of a “rectum lifestyle society.” Besides, you know. Do you people have time for other things, like cleaning your spunk-stained night shirts, or do you people just go at it 24/7?
LOL, he admits it…
I’m sure the many ladyboys of Indonesiastian know everything there is to know about muslum rectums — and not because they’re trained proctologists.
He would never find Gods word where he went or who he hung out with Muzzies the very incarnate of the devil and hell. Islam is not Gods Word but the raving of a vicious and corrupt mind that fomented a backward cult.
Yes, quite the contrast. The moslem didn’t suck off his own offspring … as he didn’t have any. You, were very, very, very busy, sucking your own male offspring’s penis, as you BRAGGED about doing on this very site. A human being would run away and hide in shame. A moslem? They BRAG about it. “LOL”
Seen movies of you “servicing” a bunch of male donkeys, horses and elephants..
Be sure to get some heavy duty mouthwash, douche bag..
well …he made such a long dangerous journey to find God’s words …while you spent your time watching & making porn in your hometown ..day in ..day out ..year in ..year out …since teenage ….
don’t you notice the contrast ???
LOL …
You’re a f*cking idiot.
Then you won’t mind if the citizens of the US deport this muslum POS to Indonesiastain?
so you don’t mind deporting this spiritual man … and exchange it with ladyboys & perverts from around the world ????
You mean like the young boys you goat humpers dress up like girls and cornhole because you stink so bad that women do not want anything to do with you.
That thing already IS a ladyboy, as ALL male moslems are homosexuals. That thing would fit right in, in indosneezia.
Are you pals with Mayor Pete Buttplug? You sound like you want to suck Johnny’s dick.
I believe you and this scumbag should be fed to wild hogs..
“A US official told NBC News that Lindh will live in Northern Virginia,
where he will be subject to strict monitoring of his internet use,
banned from international travel and undergo mental health counseling.” Oh yes, STRICT monitioring. Why, the feds may even drop in on him once in a while unanounced, for some tea and war stories too. Perhaps they can lecture him on how he really needs to live a ‘peaceful’ life and to be a nice boy now. On account he’s been released early and all. Yes, I’m sure ‘Jihad Johnny’ will throw away his Koran and prayer rug as soon as he gets home and go on the lecture and book tour circuit, declaring he was ‘persecuted’ and that it was really all a misunderstanding.
The left is defending this man, I presume. So typical of them.
Are they really that insanely naive????
Radical Extremists will always be a threat when released because their ideology has not changed, its doctrine will not change and their prophets and immams will never give up the fight to conquer the west.
The chess game is placing its pawns in strategic nations, cities, communities and employment to fullfill the plans for global jihad!
If they need to be monitored, restricted and isolated then they are still an obvious risk and danger to society. They should be executed as a traitor to their nation and an enemy. This is war and he is collateral damage.
they don’t fight to conquer the west …
they just filling in the vacuum at very core of the society …
Most moslems are too busy, sucking on their own male offspring’s penis, as YOU BRAGGED about doing, on this very site. ALL male moslems are homosexuals.
Muslums know allah about vacuums don’t they Semen? Because they all suck or blow…
a typical judeoPORNistian response ….lol
Maybe he can squat at Theresa May, Justin Tradau and Emmanuel Macrons houses!
The die is cast, this jackwad does not have enough sense to survive in the free world.
Having worked at a Texas state pen, trust me when I say there is no brilliance behind bars.
No brilliance but, somehow so many of them are able to find God in there.
Maybe he should be whacked when he gets out? By a daddy wielding a BELT!
Hang it as a traitor to America!
There is no greater piece of filth than a person who fights against his own country men voluntarily. There should be mandatory death penalties for all and any that do so. Including women
Although the sentence is not mandatory, treason is a capital crime. The court could have sentenced it to being hanged by the neck until dead. If there was any justice, that would have been the sentence.
He fought against his own people and country. I thought that was treason. Yet they sent him to prison instead of shooting him, and now he’s free. This is insanity.
I wonder what kind of ” allegations,confusion and anger ” will SURROUND him when we goes on the jihad path in Va –
‘ STRICT MONITORING ” yeah right –
My bet is that LIndh will land a cushy job with a LibTard “Think Tank” as an “expert of terrorism.”
Pamela, I remember this like it was yesterday. My heart goes out to the Spanns. JWL is a traitor and a terrorist and I hope something really bad happens to him. But he’s in Indiana, you say? Perhaps Mayor Pete should invite him on over to stay at his own home awhile?
I hope, not facetiously, that his jailers had him on a soy based diet.
Somebody will “put down” this scumbag. Soon..