&#39;American Taliban&#39; Appeals for Early Release
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The lawyer for an American sentenced to 20 years in a US prison for fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan appealed to President Bush to lessen his sentence after a man in a similar case was freed.
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Three Americans jailed for up to 10 years for torturing Afghans and running a private jail in Kabul begin their appeal.
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The United Nations appealed Thursday to the Taliban-linked kidnappers of three of its staff in Afghanistan to release them in time for a Muslim festival starting this weekend.
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The Taliban kidnappers of 23 Korean hostages on Sunday extended the deadline for the South Korean government to agree to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 24 hours to 10:30 a.m. EST on Monday.
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John Walker Lindh, serving 20  years in jail for fighting alongside the Taliban, asked the  U.S. government on Tuesday to lessen his sentence after it  decided to release a second American captured in Afghanistan.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador to request the charges be dropped,  lawyers for two of them said Wednesday.
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The Taliban kidnappers of 23 Korean hostages on Sunday extended the deadline for the South Korean government to agree to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 24 hours to 10:30 a.m. EDT on Monday.
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The top U.S. official in Afghanistan called Thursday on the Taliban to give up their three-year insurgency against American forces, pledging "non-criminal" fighters will left in peace if they acknowledge the authority of President-elect Hamid Karzai.
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Lawyers for John Walker Lindh, the 23- year-old Californian serving a 20-year sentence for helping the Taliban in Afghanistan, will ask President George W. Bush to reduce Lindh&#39;s sentence.
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Relatives pleaded on Monday for the release of two Americans and a Briton as a deadline loomed for their beheading. In Baghdad, two
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The attorney for American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh wants his clientâs 20-year prison sentence commuted, citing the nationâs heightened anxiety when the plea deal was made in 2002 and the fact that another US citizen
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that the Taliban&#039;s fugitive leader should come out of hiding and face justice. An audio tape allegedly made by Mullah Omar and aired Sunday by a Pakistani television station said the U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan government do not have the ability to solve Afghanistan&#039;s escalating violence.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Some of the 26 Taliban  members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal  to release three kidnapped U.N. workers could be in the U.S.  military jail at Guantanamo Bay, a militant spokesman said on  Monday.
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The tape called for kidnappings to try to force the release of a high-profile Muslim cleric imprisoned in the U.S.
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A Taliban splinter group claiming to be holding three foreign UN workers hostage has said it has extended the deadline for their threatened execution at the request of the Afghan government.
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The top US official in Afghanistan called on the Taliban to give up their three-year insurgency, pledging Thursday that most who surrender will be left in peace
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SEVILLE, Spain  - The United States stepped up pressure on NATO allies on Thursday to send more troops to crush an expected Taliban offensive, saying the next few weeks would be pivotal in battling the insurgency.