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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: John Walker Lindh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Walker was first captured on November 25, 2001, by Afghan Northern Alliance forces, and questioned by CIA agent Mike Spann and another agent at General Dostum's military garrison named Qali Jangi near Mazar-e Sharif.
The Real Story of John Walker Lindh, an address to the Commonwealth Club of California in which Lindh's father contrasts his son's actual activities and the circumstances of his capture with the portrayal of same in the media and statements by public officials in the wake of 9/11.
Walker Lindh was sentenced to 20 years in prison as part of an agreement reached in July under which he pled guilty to one count of supplying services to the Taliban and a criminal information charge that he carried a rifle and two hand grenades while fighting against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Walker-Lindh   (3238 words)

  
 John Anthony Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Anthony Walker Junior (born July 28, 1937) was a Chief Warrant Officer and communications specialist for the U.S. Navy, who sold his services as a spy to the Soviet Union from 1968 to 1985, the height of the Cold War era.
Walker was a flamboyant, hard-drinking womanizer and there were reports that he neglected his wife and children.
His son, Michael Walker, who had a relatively minor role in the ring and turned state's evidence in exchange for a reduced sentence, was released from prison on parole in February 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Anthony_Walker   (723 words)

  
 NewsHour Extra: American Taliban John Walker Lindh - January 16, 2002
Walker was a Taliban soldier, a part of the Islamic militia that ruled Afghanistan until U.S.-led forces defeated them in November.
Although Walker was a prisoner, he was found hiding in the basement of the prison and his role in the fighting is unclear.
Walker would be guilty of treason if he had any substantial knowledge of the September 11 attacks or if he took up arms against American troops after the U.S. began military strikes.
www.pbs.org /newshour/extra/features/jan-june02/walker_john_1-2.html   (932 words)

  
 CNN.com - John Walker Lindh makes first court appearance - January 26, 2002
Walker Lindh is being held at Alexandria Detention Center in a walled cell about 7.5 feet square until a preliminary hearing set for February 6.
Walker Lindh's return Wednesday to the United States came two years after he left the country as a teen-ager for Yemen to study Arabic and Islam -- a journey that the U.S. government alleges eventually took him to al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.
Walker Lindh was taken into custody by the U.S. military after a bloody prison uprising, which began November 25 in northern Afghanistan.
www.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/24/walker.court/index.html   (831 words)

  
 An American story?
John Walker himself is not a trivial human, of course.
Repetitive coverage of John Walker hardly suggests that he and a few odd Brits snared among the Taliban were a reprise of the Lincoln Brigade, the 2, 800 American idealists and adventurers who fought from 1936 to 1939 for the Spanish Republic against Franco's fascist rebellion.
John Walker's capture was news for a while, but always it was human- interest trivia.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/02/06/ED36342.DTL&type=printable   (721 words)

  
 Prof. John Walker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Bentlage, H.A.C.M., Janssen, A.J.M., Chomyn, A., Attardi, G., Walker, J.E., Schägger, H., Sengers, R.C.A. and Trijbels, F.J.M. Multiple deficiencies of mitochondrial DNA- and nuclear- encoded subunits of respiratory NADH dehydrogenase detected with peptide- and subunit-specific antibodies in mitochondrial myopathies.
Walker, J.E. Determination of the structures of respiratory enzyme complexes from mammalian mitochondria.
Walker, J.E. The regulation of catalysis in ATP synthase.
www.mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk /research/walker.html   (2029 words)

  
 Who Is To Say That John Walker Lindh Is Evil?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Walker followed his beliefs of Islam up to the point of joining the Taliban in their war against America.
John Walker is shunned simply because his belief is radically different from the run-of-the-mill patriotic American's.
John Walker made changes in his life that served his means alone, not anyone else's.
www.earlham.edu /%7Eorrme/whoistosaythatjohnwalkerlindhisevil.htm   (631 words)

  
 CNN.com - Walker charged with murder conspiracy - January 15, 2002
Walker was captured in early December fighting alongside the Taliban.
The criminal complaint said Walker signed a waiver and agreed to be questioned by a special agent of the FBI on December 9 or December 10.
Walker was taken into custody in early December by the U.S. military following a bloody prison uprising in Mazar-e Sharif in northern Afghanistan that began November 25.
archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/15/ret.walker.charges/index.html   (904 words)

  
 CNN Programs - People in the News
John Walker Lindh, a 20-year-old American from California, was captured while fighting for the Taliban.
Walker Lindh said one of his instructors had said the attacks were the first in three waves of attacks against U.S. interests.
Walker Lindh survived a week in a cramped prison basement that was flooded by Northern Alliance fighters.
www.cnn.com /CNN/Programs/people/shows/walker/profile.html   (2176 words)

  
 Walker, Robert John - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As a Democratic Senator (1836-45) from Mississippi, Walker was an ardent advocate of U.S. expansion and became a leader in the drive to annex Texas.
Walker was committed to Stephen A. Douglas's popular sovereignty theory, and believed that the majority of Kansans favored admission to the Union as a free state.
When President Buchanan refused to support Walker's contention that the proslavery Lecompton Constitution (see under Lecompton) was fraudulently adopted and should be put to popular vote, he resigned (Dec., 1857).
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/W/Walker-RJ.asp   (465 words)

  
 Dave Kopel on Ashcroft & John Walker Lindh on National Review Online
John Ashcroft’s John Walker Lindh comments were inappropriate.
Because the Lindh case is being brought in federal district court in the Eastern District of Virginia, all attorneys in the case are bound by Virginia's rules of legal ethics.
John Walker Lindh is a despicable person, and Attorney General Ashcroft was accurate in labeling Lindh an enemy of America and American values.
www.nationalreview.com /kopel/kopel021902.shtml   (1112 words)

  
 American Track and Field -- Feature Article
Jelley explained to Walker that some of the other boys that he was running against were running up to 100 miles a week and if he wanted to continue his winning ways he would have to do some training.
In July of 1973 Walker made the first of what was to become an annual sojourn to Europe and improved his times to 1 minute 46.3 seconds for the 800 metres and 3 minutes 38 seconds for 1500 metres.
Walker was now doing up to 90 miles a week and proved he was ready with a 3 minute 55.8 second mile.
www.american-trackandfield.com /features/winter02_jellywalker.html   (3275 words)

  
 Player Bio: John Walker :: Football
2005: Walker was moved back to cornerback prior to 2005 spring practice (after spending the last half of 2004 at wide receiver) and he will be a backup there as a senior in 2005.
2004: Walker, who began his 2004 junior season as a reserve cornerback, was moved to wide receiver by midseason and served as a reserve there.
2002: Walker was a backup free safety (he also was available at cornerback) and played on special teams as a redshirt freshman in 2002.
usctrojans.cstv.com /sports/m-footbl/mtt/walker_john00.html   (528 words)

  
 Spinsanity - The John Walker Attack on Liberalism
Cohen points out that while Walker's upbringing is surely an important influence, it's totally unreasonable to hold the "relativism of Marin County" or a broader post-60s liberal movement responsible for his decision to fight with the Taliban.
After all, Walker is but one single person, the only American yet found fighting against his country, while thousands of young people who grew up in the same era as Walker, some even with similar upbringings, are now part of the US military.
Reports have indicated that Walker's parents supported what they called their son's "spiritual journey", but this is not enough evidence to assume that they encouraged him in every choice he made.
www.spinsanity.org /columns/20011217.html   (1106 words)

  
 Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!
Basically "John Walker's Blues" is an expression of defiance against the "good vs. evil," "our fundamentalism vs. their fundamentalism," mentality polluting the country.
And the juxtaposition of Walker's story told in blues to this Islamic prayer asks the listener to consider the similarities between cultures and, at the same time, raises some questions about the power of fundamentalist religious faith to lure people onto a bad path.
Just for the record, "John Walker's Blues" uses the time-honored artistic technique of story-telling -- putting the listener in the shoes of this young man and exploring the road he travelled down to get to a place where "fighting the Jihad" seemed to be the best option.
www.artistsnetwork.org /news5/news201.html   (3339 words)

  
 John Earl Walker's - Plum Nelly Days
It was at this time that John Murphy replaced Bob Feit, who went on to become Tina Turner's bass player, and superseded original "Plum Nelly" member Peter Harris on bass guitar.
Walker and Feit at Grant's in Macon, Ga.
Walker and Cissy Houston arranged the vocal parts and Chris Lloyd wrote the lyrics, for this soulful ballad.
www.johnearlwalkerband.com /plumnelly.html   (491 words)

  
 Family of Spies: The John Walker Jr. Spy Case
Walker’s first thought was that the FBI had finally discovered him, but he was confused because no one had tried to arrest him in the dead drop area.
Walker’s arrest shattered that illusion and sparked what the media quickly dubbed “The Year of The Spy.” Following Walker’s arrest, seven other U.S. citizens would be accused of spying before the yearend.
John Walker gave away the “keys to your most secret code machines,” Solomatin bragged, “giving us the equivalent of a seat inside your Pentagon where we could read your most vital secrets.” KGB officer Vitaly Yurchenko was more blunt: “Walker was the greatest case in KGB history.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/spies/walker/1.html   (1986 words)

  
 The John Earl Walker Band - Official Website
John Earl Walker, the founder, lead guitarist and lead vocalist of the band, took up the guitar at age thirteen.
John cites Freddie and Albert King, T-Bone Walker and Magic Sam as his main influences as he developed his own unique style.
He first met John Earl in 1984 when one of Walker's earlier bands The Safecrackers shared a recording studio with Byrne and Infante's The Housepainters.
www.johnearlwalkerband.com /main.html   (616 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | Profile: John Walker Lindh
Named after the former Beatle John Lennon, John Walker Lindh was born in Washington DC in February 1981.
When John was 10, the family moved to Marin County, one of California's wealthiest counties and often caricaturised as "hot-tub haven".
John Walker then told his parents he would enrol at a madrassa (a religious school) in the village of Bannu, in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier province.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1779455.stm   (838 words)

  
 Jonah Goldberg’s Goldberg File on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John Walker, Andrew Sullivan, and the libertarian threat.
Well, John Walker's father has told various interviewers that he was just delighted that his son believed in something.
Someone threw John Walker a copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and said, "Knock yourself out, kid." From there, left to his own devices, he slid down a long slope to the Taliban —; because nobody had the moral courage or maturity to put him on the right path.
www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg121201.shtml   (2292 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Jennifer Van Bergen | Special Agent John Walker Lindh
John Walker Lindh's plea agreement means that the government knew it had a weak case against Lindh.
The government has also agreed to make recommendations to the Bureau of Prisons "potentially relevant to the secure incarceration of the defendant during his term of imprisonment" including those "related to personal safety," and furthermore, "not to object" to his request that he be assigned to a prison near his parents' homes.
These are important considerations for John Walker Lindh, who now faces a mere twenty years (instead of life) in jail.
www.truthout.org /docs_02/07.18A.jvb.sp.lindh.htm   (578 words)

  
 Forgetting Afghanistan and forgiving John Walker. By Michael Kinsley - Slate Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
That's about when John Walker, 20-year-old American citizen, disappeared from sight until he surfaced earlier this month in a prisoner-of-war camp for Taliban fighters who were lucky enough not to have been killed—yet.
Now many Americans want Walker tried, punished, executed … nothing is too terrible to say about, or contemplate doing to, this traitor who abandoned his country and joined up with that incarnation of evil, that rats' nest of anti-Americanism, that oppressor of women, that harborer of terrorists: the Taliban.
Walker's co-fighters from Pakistan and elsewhere face unpleasant futures, or very short ones, if they are sent back to their home countries.
slate.msn.com /?id=2059764   (1313 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Taliban Next Door -- Page 1
John Walker Lindh was a middle child named after John Lennon and Chief Justice John Marshall.
John did not have a driver's license and was still in high school, so attending prayer services five times a day was out of the question.
Nana, now 23, recalls that when he first saw Walker, he stood out immediately, not simply because he was a white man in a mostly Indian congregation but also because he was "on his own," meaning already devoted to Islam and without a referral from another Muslim.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,187564,00.html   (1071 words)

  
 John Frost Walker : Memory Hold The Door | USC School of Law
John Frost Walker was born in Richland County on September 7, 1881, the son of John Frost and Nannie Flannagan Walker.
He graduated from the University of South Carolina Law School in 1904 and practiced law in Union until 1960, when he was elected Judge of the Union County Court and remained on the Bench until 1964.
His law firm associations were Barron, Barron and Walker, Walker and White.
www.law.sc.edu /memory/1981/walkerjf.shtml   (221 words)

  
 Porsche 911 Service | Parts | Performance | John Walker's Workshop, Seattle, WA
John started working on VW's in 1968, Porsches in 1975, and opened his first Greenwood Avenue shop in 1980.
John's first love is working on 911's but many of his steady customers drive other models of Porsches.
At this workshop the man you talk to is the man who does the work, John Walker.
www.johnwalkersworkshop.com   (120 words)

  
 'John Walker's Blues' hits a sour note for some   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A new tune about John Walker Lindh by Nashville singer-songwriter Steve Earle has kicked up a fight between critics who think he's unpatriotic and defenders who consider him provocative.
The song, "John Walker's Blues," is not due for release until September.
"John Walker's Blues" represents a change in the popular music world in how it responds to the war on terrorism.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /pop/80487_johnwalkersblues30.shtml   (909 words)

  
 IS JOHN WALKER LINDH A MANUFACTURED VILLIAN?
John Walker Lindh is, to put it bluntly, just too damn convenient to be true.
Lindh would be viewed as a potential CIA infiltrator, yet another reason for him not to be included in critical inside information by the al Qaeda leadership, which knows better than most how treacherous the CIA can be, even to its purported friends and allies (like the Taliban).
In my opinion, John Walker Lindh is a complete phony, manufactured by the US Government out of purest USDA choice bovine-excrement as a propaganda tool to try to convince the American people that a war of conquest into 50 other nations for mineral resources is somehow justified.
www.whatreallyhappened.com /lindh.html   (404 words)

  
 John Walker Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
John WALKER was born in Ireland about 1813.
John and Dorothy apparently came to the United States between 1842 and 1850.
John died in Missouri Twp., IL on 16 Aug 1891.
genealogy.binhost.com /jensen/walker/john.html   (414 words)

  
 John-Walker.org - Official Site --- BIOGRAPHY ---   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In its various guises John and Judy's band played regularly in the Los Angeles area, whilst John also played guitar from time to time for various other bands.
John eventually returned to California and, because nothing was heard of him for
At this point John had no plans for an album of his own, and although he had made some experimental recordings, they were more of an exercise in recording technique than a
www.john-walker.org /bio1.htm   (1417 words)

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