Jailed 'American Taliban' Seeks Early Release
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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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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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John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan after he had joined the Taliban, asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to reduce his 20-year prison sentence
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Description: The United States will release &quot;enemy combatant&quot; detainee Yaser Hamdi, who had been held in a military prison for more than two years.
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A media rights group is urging the U.S. military to charge an Afghan journalist held at the Bagram military prison with a crime or set him free.
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An Iranian-American academic detained in a Tehran prison since May says he expects to be freed soon.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan freed 81  suspected Taliban fighters from military jails across the  country Sunday and some of the released men said they had been  mistreated and tortured in custody.
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Two members of a terrorist gang known for an anarchic season of kidnappings and killings are petitioning to be released from prison early.
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PESHAWAR: The Jaishul Muslimeen has demanded the release of 25 prisoners being held in Afghanistan and at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay before it could consider freeing the three UN election workers kidnapped from Kabul last week.
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Kidnappers threatening to execute three UN hostages in Afghanistan accused the United States on Saturday of delaying their release.
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Taliban-linked militants holding three kidnapped United Nations workers, including a British woman, are demanding the release of 26 prisoners, some possibly held at Guantanamo Bay, in return for sparing the hostagesâ lives.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - An American on trial for allegedly torturing Afghan terror suspects in a private jail claimed Saturday in his first interview from custody that he was hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders when he was arrested on July 5.    Jonathan Idema told The Associated Press he had official sanction from Afghans and Americans to hunt down terrorists and said he has been prevented from showing the evidence in court...
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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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KABUL -- Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages said yesterday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives. Afghan state television reported that President Hamid Karzai had decreed the release of prisoners for Eid, the end of the Muslim fasting month, expected on Sunday. But there was no ...
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The attorney for American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh wants his client's 20-year prison sentence commuted, citing the nation's heightened anxiety when the plea deal was made in 2002 and the fact that another U.S. citizen captured on an Afghanistan battlefield may soon be released.
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Yaser Esam Hamdi, the accused Taliban fighter whose legal battle was fought from Norfolk to the US Supreme Court, will be freed in a matter of days, according to an agreement signed by the US government on today.
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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.