John Walker Lindh
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• citizen who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001
• He was captured and detained at Qala-i-Jangi fortress, used as a prison
• He took part in the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi, a violent uprising of the Taliban prisoners, during which the CIA officer Johnny "Mike" Spann was killed, together with all but 86 of the estimated 300–500 prisoners
• Brought to trial in United States federal court in February 2002, Lindh accepted a plea bargain; he pleaded guilty to two charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole
• A convert to Islam in California at age 16, Lindh traveled to Yemen in 1998 to study Arabic and stayed there for 10 months
• He later returned in 2000, then went to Afghanistan to aid the Taliban
• He received training at Al-Farouq, a training camp associated with al-Qaeda, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and other countries
• While at the camp, he attended a lecture by Osama bin Laden
• After the 9/11 attacks, he remained there to join opposing military forces after he learned that the U