Lindh pleaded guilty in 2002 to fighting for the Taliban and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. He is scheduled to be released from prison next month.
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow April 1 at 11:01 PM Sen. Richard C. Shelby said Monday that President Trump opposes the early release next month of John Walker Lindh, the American man who pleaded guilty in 2002 to fighting for the Taliban and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
“Lindh’s activities are deserving of a strong and strict punishment. Thank you, Mr. President,” Shelby said in the tweet. Details on the reason for his early release were not immediately available. Credits for good behavior can reduce an inmate’s sentence by up to 15 percent, which would amount to three years in Lindh’s case.Lindh, who grew up in Maryland and California, was 20 years old when he joined a Taliban unit in Afghanistan in 2001. He was later captured, returned to the United States and eventually struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors that spared him a life sentence in the case.
“Mr. Lindh admitted to supporting the Taliban in Afghanistan and pled guilty to those accusations in July 2002,” Shelby wrote to Trump in the letter. “I believe that a 20-year sentence is a small price to pay for his participation in terrorist activities against his own country.”
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