Once again lawyers for American Taliban John Walker Lindh has called on President Bush to commute his 20-year sentence. He was originally charged with conspiring to kill Americans and supporting terrorists but pleaded guilty in 2002 to lesser offenses of supplying services to the now-defunct Taliban government. This is his 4th attempt to have his sentence commuted. The father of CIA officer Mike Spann, who was killed in an Afghanistan prison uprising where Lindh was captured, called for Lindh to serve his full sentence. While his mother during a news conference Tuesday said” His only offense was serving in the army of Afghanistan, He's admitted this was a mistake on his part."
Newsflash to this dirt bag and other of his ilk, they are non-uniformed enemy combatants and as such can be tried and executed by a military tribunal in the field. They are not afforded any protection under Geneva Convention 1949 or any of the supplements because they due not meet the criteria of a legal combatant or other protected individual. In my opinion 20 years was not enough, with the death of Mike Spann he should never be allowed to walk free again.
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