'American Taliban' released from prison

By Andrew Hay
Updated May 23 2019 - 10:38pm, first published 10:32pm
John Walker Lindh has walked free from prison after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence.
John Walker Lindh has walked free from prison after serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence.

John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban, has been released early from a US federal prison, the Washington Post reports, citing Lindh's lawyer.

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