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| ’Taliban John’ Attacked in Prison |
| 2003-03-06 |
| Edited for brevity VICTORVILLE, Calif. — John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" who is serving a 20-year sentence in federal prison, may have been attacked behind bars by one or more white supremacists in this desert community northeast of Los Angeles, it was reported Thursday. FBI officials said they have been alerted and do not know if Lindh, 21, had been injured. "I can confirm there was an incident regarding Lindh Monday night," FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley told the San Bernardino Sun. "There was a report that Lindh was assaulted by another inmate but I cannot disclose any details beyond that." George Harris, an attorney with the San Francisco firm that represents Lindh, said he was not aware of any incident regarding his client and was concerned for his safety. "I don't know anything about an attack," Harris said. "We would be concerned if my client would be in danger." Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Dan Dunne told the newspaper that the agency does not release information about inmates unless a crime has been committed within prison walls that is prosecutable... Lindh was placed in general population last month at the request of his attorneys and was working as an orderly cleaning indoors where guards could watch him closely, an anonymous source told the newspaper. Lindh had been in special housing similar to solitary confinement for his protection since Monday, the source said. Here's a clarifying excerpt from the orginal FoxNews article...The FBI is investigating an attack by a federal prison inmate on John Walker Lindh, who is imprisoned for helping the Taliban in Afghanistan. "There was an assault and we have a pending investigation," FBI spokesman Ed Cogswell said. He said he couldn't comment on the details of an ongoing probe. FBI's involved because it's a federal prison... Another law enforcement source said Lindh was uninjured. "It was a minor incident, a prison fight. He got a little scraped up, but he's fine. One guy was picking on him," said this source, speaking on condition of anonymity. The source said it wasn't possible to immediately provide information on Lindh's attacker. Note that it's just "one guy," not Heinrich Himmler, Jr... The San Bernardino Sun received an anonymous tip early Tuesday that Lindh had been attacked, possibly by white supremacists. The brownshirts come in via the anomymous tipster, who could well have an ax to grind... "Yes, I'd like to inform your newspaper that John Lindh Walker, who is incarcerated in Victorville, was assaulted this night by a white supremacist organization that is imprisoned there. Thank you," the male caller said in a voice message. There aren't any organizations imprisoned in federal prisons, though there are lots of members of same. It could be so, it could also be that one man's Rotary Club is another man's white supremacist organization... |
| Posted by:Dar Steckelberg |
| #11 Was it ever discovered that he actually knew beforehand about the prison revolt during which Michael Spann was killed? |
| Posted by: RW 2003-03-06 15:23:33 |
| #10 Well, I didn't start watching OZ until late last season, but shouldn't the Muslims have been a little more protective of "Johnny Taliban"... or did they just get tired of his Cat Stevens collection running 24/7? Sorry Johhny, that ain't a "moonshadow" that's following you! |
| Posted by: capsu78 2003-03-06 14:56:02 |
| #9 Scooter, in that light it all changes. Having been there (prison) and having known white supremacist, I would make this observation, he may have been the american taliban, but any non-white or race traitor is "fair game." John Walker Lindh was just another "insert racial slur here". CitizenX |
| Posted by: CitizenX 2003-03-06 14:15:48 |
| #8 See clarifying comments, above. The white supremacist presence isn't quite so heavy in the original article. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-03-06 14:08:18 |
| #7 CitizenX, in prison I think being a "white supremacist" has less to do with bigoted racial theory and more to do with not being identified as a "race traitor" by the hard-core lifers. Survival in prision means cliqueing up with your own kind. In the context of this story I just understood it to mean it wasn't the Bloods or Mexican Mafia who attacked ol' John. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-03-06 13:59:57 |
| #6 Hmm, damn digital sympathy meter is reading "OSL". What the hell does that mean? *roots around for manual*. Ah, here it is. Oh., Off scale low. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-03-06 13:55:34 |
| #5 uhhhh... actually most real "white supremacist" are not in prison for their "patriotic" activities unless drug dealing, murder, burglary, robbery, rape , etc. have become patriotic. point number 2 is that a white supremacist thinks the country has gone to hell, want to change it totally (including armed revolt), and barring that, want to secede and set up their own sovereign country, neither of which are are patriotic. CitizenX |
| Posted by: CitizenX 2003-03-06 12:43:42 |
| #4 Curious. The report identifies "white supremacists" as the perps of the Taliban John assault. The reporter knows this how? Substitute the words " patriotic felons" for "white supremacists". |
| Posted by: Mark 2003-03-06 12:36:15 |
| #3 Why is the FBI alerted on this? He's inside. Surprised to see he's supposedly in the general population at what appears to be his own request. If he is, this has Office Pool potential. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-03-06 11:08:01 |
| #2 I'm no expert on prison society but I suspect being a traitor to your country puts someone in pretty much the same catagory as a jailhouse "snitch". Which is about the same level as child molesters: prey for all the other inmates. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-03-06 11:07:58 |
| #1 All those of you who feel sorry for Johnny Taliban, raise your hands. C'mon, there must be someone out there . . . . Anybody . . . ? |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-03-06 11:05:27 |