SAN FRANCISCO - After years of silence, the father of American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh called on President Bush on Thursday to grant clemency to his son, who he says was wrongly ...

Associated Press WriterALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh on Tuesday, accusing the American Taliban fighter of conspiring to kill fellow U.S. citizens in ...

April 4, 2007 — -- Two young, Western men captured on the wrong side of an Afghanistan battlefield in December 2001. Two plea bargains. Two vastly disparate sentences. That was the message ...

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Marin County, California man who became known as the "American Taliban" after his capture on an Afghanistan battlefield in late 2001 has been released from prison. John Walker ...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ brother-in-law, who once defended the notorious “American Taliban,” has joined her revamped campaign team, according to a report. Tony West, 58, will serve as a “powerful ...

John Walker Lindh was a middle-class kid in Northern California who converted to Islam and went to travel the world. U.S. authorities eventually captured him in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, when he was ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A federal grand jury indicted John Walker Lindh on Tuesday, accusing the American Taliban fighter of conspiring to kill fellow U.S. citizens in Afghanistan. The 10-count indictment ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) _ American John Walker Lindh wanted to leave his fellow Taliban fighters after learning of the Sept. 11 attacks, but did not go for fear he would be killed, his lawyers say. Lindh ...

Feb. 5 -- A federal grand jury today indicted John Walker Lindh, accusing him of conspiring with Taliban and al Qaeda forces to kill his fellow Americans in Afghanistan. Attorney General John Ashcroft ...

James Brosnahan, the chief lawyer for John Walker Lindh, the American accused of supporting the Taliban, had some harsh words for the U.S. government’s conduct after his client’s first appearance in ...

Who is John Walker Lindh? It’s surprisingly hard to say. For someone who has dominated the U.S. media for months, Walker’s identity remains markedly indistinct. He is, as both Woody Allen and Winston ...