Johnny Walker Taliban | Free a qualified jihadist …

John Walker Lindh, a Californian known as the "American Taliban" and captured in 2001 in Afghanistan for loaning aid to the Taliban, was released yesterday. His release took place after 17 years spent in a federal prison in Terre Haute, in the state of Indiana. The plea agreement imposed a 20-year sentence, but managed to leave three years earlier for good behavior. In addition to being targeted for offering help to the Taliban, Lindh has also been accused of plotting to badbadinate former CIA chief Johnny. Spann, who had questioned him. Spann was killed in 2002 in Afghanistan by a prisoner riot.

The head of the American diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, repudiated the judicial decision while affirming that it was risky because he affirmed that he remained related to the extremism.

Unlike the citizens of other countries that were captured by US troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the then 20 year old Lindh was tried by a federal court in the United States and did not go to court. is not found in the Guantánamo detention camp. . A judge imposed additional restrictions on the monitoring of Lindh's freedom, fearing that the Taliban still do not retain radical ideology and that it is also forbidden to him to have and see " extremist documents ".