American Taliban Asks Bush To Commute Sentence
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The so-called &quot;American Taliban&quot; wants President George W. Bush to let him out of prison early. John Walker Lindh is asking the president to commute his 20-year term for helping the Taliban.
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A German who says he was kidnapped three years ago, held by the CIA and tortured for months in Afghanistan on Wednesday sought an apology from the U.S. government and an explanation for his arrest.
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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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Zalmay Khalilzad, US ambassador to Afghanistan, called on the Taliban to lay down their arms yesterday and said non-criminal elements could rejoin society without fear of arrest by the US military.
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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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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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President Bush vowed yesterday to make a sustained new military and political effort to beat back resurgent Taliban forces as he turned his attention back to Afghanistan and a conflict that has been overshadowed for the past couple of years by the larger war in Iraq.
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Eased-up American military operations could persuade former Taliban militants to return home from countries such as Pakistan, the chief of the U.N. refugee agency said Saturday.
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Indonesia urged Washington on Friday to   provide access to a militant linked to the 2002 Bali bombings   after President Bush said he had been transferred to Guantanamo   Bay.
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Lawyers for three Americans charged with torturing suspects in a private jail during a freelance hunt for terrorists in Afghanistan appealed Wednesday to the US ambassador to help stop their trial.
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European lawmakers demanded on Thursday that their governments reveal the location of secret CIA prisons after U.S. President George Bush admitted Washington held terrorist suspects in jails abroad.
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President George W. Bush, seeking to   stave off a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan, will host a   joint meeting September 27 in Washington with Pakistani   President Pervez Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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A lawyer for one of three Americans jailed in Afghanistan for illegally running a private anti-terror campaign and secret jail has asked for a US Congressional probe to look into bringing the trio home.
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Analysis: President Bush invites the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan for a meal, hoping to force President Musharraf to once again choose between the West and the Taliban
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Some of the 26 Taliban members Afghan militants have demanded freed as part of a deal to release three kidnapped UN workers could be in the US military jail
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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