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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- John Walker Lindh, the American convicted of serving with the Taliban, was "roughed up" in a prison inmate attack earlier this week, FBI officials said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/03/06/walker.lindh.prison/
Walker Lindh, 21, was not seriously injured in the attack Monday at the federal prison in Victorville, California, officials said. The prison is about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
FBI officials declined to give details of the incident because of their ongoing investigation.
Dan Dunne, an FBI spokesman in Washington, said the prison had assured him Walker Lindh is "safely housed."
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"I checked with the prison last night and was assured he\'s completely safe," said Dunne. "Lindh is in a unit that is appropriate to his safety and security needs."
Another law enforcement officer, on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press: "It was a minor incident, a prison fight. He got a little scraped up, but he\'s fine. One guy was picking on him." The official could offer no information on the attacker.
The investigation began after someone called the San Bernardino County Sun with an anonymous tip early Tuesday, the AP reported.
"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.
The paper could not identify the caller or the attacker, the AP said.
Lindh was sentenced to 20 years in October after pleading guilty to aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan.
He was moved in January from a federal holding facility in Virginia to the medium-security prison to be closer to his parents, who live in Northern California.
The Sun, citing an anonymous source at the prison, reported authorities placed Lindh in the general inmate population in February at his attorneys request. He was working as a cleaner indoors where guards could keep an eye on him, the source said.
Since Monday, Lindh had been housed in an area similar to solitary confinement for his protection, the source told the Sun.
More than 1,650 people are incarcerated at the prison, which has 362 full-time employees, the AP reported. Two more prisons under construction on the site, including a high-security penitentiary.
CNN\'s Terry Frieden contributed to this story.
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Hmm, just curious, if he were to have get rid of his American citizenship, would he be able to be accused of treason?
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damm right that tradtor should be raped by a big lonly man..lol
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OOPS, I posted something like this on OT and it got Locked.....I have never came in here so i didnt know.....but I am happy lindh got Assaulted!
:hat:ScottyJ:hat:
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that traitor deserved it.
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I love how ppl call him a traitor. IMO he doesnt exactly fit the bill since he denounced being an american citizen and left the country. I think he should have been treated exactly like any other individual tried and convicted of internatinal crimes, treason not being one of them though.
Oliver North, now that was a f\'n traitor. That guy didnt even get charged with treason.... :rolleyes:
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he was a caucasion american fighing along side the taliban against US soldiers
sounds like a traitor to me
he\'s lucky he wasnt shot on sight when they found him hiding in the dirt
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Well, the judicial system doesn\'t exactly work like that mm, we have laws :)
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there are NO laws on the battlefield
i bet there was at least one person who wanted to put a bullet in him right then and there
i would have shot him in the ass for stupidity
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Originally posted by mm
there are NO laws on the battlefield
i bet there was at least one person who wanted to put a bullet in him right then and there
i would have shot him in the ass for stupidity
There are rules on the battlefield. The rules of manly warfare. It\'s against the rules or laws to kill a POW. How does killing a twisted person represent how we have better morals and ideals than the people we wage war against?
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he wasnt a PoW when they found him, was he?
when the first bullet flies past your head, politics and all that bullshit go out the window
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Unless he surrendered (which he did), you can shoot them.