(National-UAE) Few people have defined America’s post-9/11 homegrown terrorist threat like John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban.” On May 23, having served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for aiding a terrorist organisation, Walker Lindh walked free from a high-security prison in western Indiana having been released early for good behaviour. Yet despite the long years he spent behind bars, it appears his extreme views may not have wavered at all.
In letters exchanged with a television producer while in prison in 2015, Walker Lindh told of how he spent his days in pursuit of pure Islamic knowledge, and that he considered himself a political prisoner. Four years ago, as ISIS slaughtered and raped across Syria and northern Iraq, Walker Lindh referred to the terror group as “doing a spectacular job,” according to KNBC, an affiliate of NBC News.
