(SF Chronicle) John Walker Lindh, the Marin County man convicted of fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will be freed from a federal prison Thursday.
Federal Bureau of Prison records show Lindh, dubbed the “American Taliban,” will be released Thursday from the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Institution in Indiana.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2002 after pleading guilty to supplying services to the Taliban and carrying explosives.
Lindh, now 38, was 20 years old in November 2001 when he was captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
A grand jury in 2002 contended that Lindh gave support, material and services to three main terror groups the previous year while training and fighting with them and that he used “firearms and destructive devices” while doing so.
