{"id":85685,"date":"2019-03-19T12:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85685"},"modified":"2019-03-19T12:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T16:27:29","slug":"john-walker-lindh-american-taliban-fighter-set-for-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85685","title":{"rendered":"John Walker Lindh, American Taliban Fighter, set for Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85723\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-85723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/John-Walker-Lindh-Reuters-500x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/John-Walker-Lindh-Reuters-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/John-Walker-Lindh-Reuters-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/John-Walker-Lindh-Reuters-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/John-Walker-Lindh-Reuters.jpg 1862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">John Walker Lindh, the American that fought for the Taliban, is looking at a May 2019 release. (AP\/Reuters)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>John Walker Lindh, the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, is set to be released in May, 2019. As you guys may remember, John Lindh was captured in Afghanistan. He was fighting for the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>He was put on trial, convicted, and sentenced to serve some prison time. He maintained his radical views while in prison. He even argued that he would continue advocating Islamic extremism after his release.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The National Counterterrorism Center penned a document dated Jan. 24, 2017 claiming the former Taliban fighter remains as radicalized now as he was in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of May 2016, John Walker Lindh (USPER) &#8212; who is scheduled to be released in May 2019 after being convicted of supporting the Taliban &#8211; continued to advocate for global jihad and to write and translate violent extremist texts,&#8221; the Foreign Policy magazine reported.<\/p>\n<p>The report added Walker Lindh told &#8220;a television news producer that he would continue to spread violent extremist Islam upon his release.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He applied for Irish citizenship, and plans to go to Ireland after his release. His argument is that he needs to seek asylum, as his survival in the United States is questionable.<\/p>\n<p>You could read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/american-ex-taliban-fighter-to-be-released-in-may-seek-to-move-to-ireland-despite-authorities-warning-he-hasnt-denounced-islamism\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Walker Lindh, the American caught fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, is set to be &hellip; <a title=\"John Walker Lindh, American Taliban Fighter, set for Release\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85685\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Walker Lindh, American Taliban Fighter, set for Release<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}