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American Taliban John Walker Lindh Released From Jail

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Daily Mail: John Walker Lindh is released from prison amid outrage at decision to free American Taliban after 17 years

* John Walker Lindh, 38, has been released from the Terre Haute federal prison in Indiana and appears to have walked free just after midnight on Thursday
* He served 17 years of a 20 year sentence for supplying services to a terrorist organization and carrying an explosive device
* The convicted terrorist is now thought to be traveling to Virginia where he is expected to live while serving a three-year probation term
* The Federal Bureau of Prisons has not confirmed Lindh's release but his inmate locator release date was altered shortly after midnight
* He was captured with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan in 2001 and failed to warn U.S. forces of a planned uprising at the Qala-i-Jangi jail where he was held
* CIA operative Johnny 'Mike' Spann was killed during the uprising while Lindh himself was injured
* U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called Lindh's release 'unexplainable and unconscionable'

'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh was released from an Indiana prison Thursday after serving 17 years of a 20 year sentence for supplying services to a terrorist organization and carrying an explosive device.

Lindh, 38, is believed to have walked free from the medium security federal prison FCI Terre Haute just after midnight local time and was met by his mother Marilyn Walker, 68.

The convicted terrorist is now thought to be traveling to Virginia where he is expected to live while serving a three-year probation term. He adopted the name Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi while in prison. Al-Irlandi means the Irish man.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Lindh's release and his attorney told the Washington Post that the

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