Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:23:53 -0700 (MST)
From: snail 
Subject: [azsecularhumanists] government wants to fry lindh
To: azsecularhumanists@yahoogroups.com
Reply-To: azsecularhumanists@yahoogroups.com




arizona republic
wed feb 6, 2002

taliban fighter lindh indicted on 10 counts

The California man captured with
Taliban forces in Afghanistan was
indicted Tuesday on charges of
conspiring to kill U.S. nationals
abroad and providing services and
material support to terrorists, as
well as new firearms and conspiracy
counts

<snip>

John Walker Lindh ... could face up
to three life sentences plus an
additional 90 years.

The indictment was handed up the 
same day that Lindh's defense
team launched an attack on the 
cornerstone of the public evidence
in the case: two statements that
Lindh gave to the FBI on Dec. 9
and 10. Lindh was in no condition to
waive his right to remain silent,
they said, because he had been
threatened, shackled, blindfolded,
stripped naked and tied to a cot 
with duct tape.

<snip>

Under federal law, defendants facing 
this type of gun charge must be
held without bond unless the
defense can show that special
circumstances apply, U.S. Attorney
Paul NcNulty said.


The Defense team, led by James Brosnahan, 
declined to comment

<snip>

The defense contended that Lindh was
phusically mistreated by Americans at
"Camp Rhino" in Kandahar after he 
surrendered in the November fall of
Kundz.

About Dec. 7. "he was blindfolded and 
bound with plastic cuffs so tight that
his hands turned blue," the defense
wrote. "Soldiers transporting him
threatened him with death and torture."

He was promised a lawyer, but instead
was "held incommunicado ... for
aproximately eight days ... and given
minimal food and medical attention,"
Lindh's attorneys alleged in their
memo.

The defense als alleges that Lindh 
repeatedly asked for a lawyer but
was told by an FBI agent that none
was available. He was not told that
his parents had hired a lawyer who
was trying to contact him until
he received letters through the
Red Cross on Jan. 6, the defense
filing said.

"Mr Lindh believed that the  only
way to escape the torture of his
current circumstances was to do
whatever the agent wanted," the
filing said.

But Ashcroft strongly defended
the governments handling of Lindh.

<snip>

--
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; 
when the government fears the people, there is liberty "
                             Thomas Jefferson

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