BS: John Walker. What to do?

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 02 - 12:52 PM

What has happened? Where is he now? Why don't we read anything?

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 01:30 AM

Are you sleeping?
Are you sleeping?
Brother John, brother John?

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: InOBU
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 07:40 AM

Could it be they are hiding him in the Walker family compound in Kennybunkport? in hopes that if we loose the war they can make him the leader of the American Taliban, that way the Walker Bush family has a trump either way?
Oh come on, have a chuckle, Larry

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: GUEST,DM
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 08:43 PM

Name a Whiskey after him and sell it in Afganistan.

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 31 Mar 02 - 12:09 AM

In a previous post I was concerned what would happen when he got a PRESS agent. Today's paper is advertising a FUCKING BOOK about him! I guess a LITERARY agent is needed before a press agent. And some may wonder why I'm cynical.

Cheers

Rick

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Apr 02 - 06:04 AM

A Taliban detainee held by U.S. forces in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a U.S. citizen.

The man, identified as Yasser Esam Hamdi, is the second American citizen -- the other is John Walker Lindh, now in U.S. civilian custody -- captured in Afghanistan alongside Taliban and al Qaeda fighters last fall.

The detainee's parents were Saudi nationals employed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where Hamdi was born, the official said. The family moved back to Saudi Arabia when the detainee was a toddler.

According to a defense official, the prisoner has claimed that he was born in Baton Rouge since his capture and has a birth certificate.

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 02 - 04:32 AM

An excerpt from the book:

"Yes, I Supported" the 9/11 Attack on America. - John Walker Lindh

Sweet, shy, sensitive, John Walker Lindh, at age 14, was a confused, unhappy, angry little boy with a fascination for the violent rhythms of hip-hop music. By age 16, his anger was directed at Jews, Gays, Zionists, Christians, and White America. In 1998, after converting to Islam, and while still living in California, John Walker Lindh joined a "Pakistan-based jehadi organization" with suspected links to terrorists and Islamic extremists dedicated to the overthrow of "moderate" Islamic governments and the United States of America. That same year John Walker Lindh left for Yemen to attend language school, but then dropped out and disappeared after just two weeks. For the next eight months he apparently made contact with militants at the Islamic University, only to be apprehended and returned to the U.S.

John Walker Lindh wanted to be a holy warrior. The presence of U.S. forces and U.S. ships off the coast of Yemen and other Muslim nations was "an act of war against Islam" he declared. In the year 2000 he returned to Yemen on a mission which coincided with the bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen--blamed on al-Qaeda and Islamic militants attending Yemen's Islamic University.

Mission accomplished, John Walker left Yemen for Pakistan where he met with Taliban officials, and then journeyed to Afghanistan where he swore allegiance to al-Qeada and Osama bin Laden who personally thanked John Walker for his assistance and his help.

Osama bin Laden had preached: "Death to America!"

But was it the United States which John Walker wished to destroy, or his unknown face?

The story of John Walker, is a story of a young man at war with himself for he hated and repeatedly sought to jettison and destroy his true identity.

John Walker Lindh convinced himself that imitation is reality. "If you imitate a people, you'll be regarded as one of them... even if you commit unimaginable sins."

John Walker Lindh was on a quest for personal purity. He joined a religion that encouraged him to pick up a gun and to kill his fellow Muslims, and American women and men.

Yet imitation is not reality, which is why John Walker Lindh, in picking up the martyr's gun, was aiming not for the "Great Satan" or the United States, but at something far more evil and full of sin... his own unknown face.

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Apr 02 - 11:21 PM

Thread Creep?

>The Hobbit, was clearly the one of those in that tale who were real tragic hero types.

Subject: RE: BS: John Walker. What to do?
From: GUEST,fo
Date: 07 Apr 02 - 08:20 PM

Like it or not, Walker did nothing wrong. He simply expressed his religious freedom through his right to free speech and related expression.