John walker lindh biography

He was detained at Qala-i-Jangi fortress, used as a prison. He denied participating in the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi , [ 1 ] a violent uprising of the Taliban prisoners, stating that he was wounded in the leg and hid in the cellar of the Pink House, in the southern half of the fort. He was one of the 86 prisoners who survived the uprising, from an estimated prisoners in total.

John Philip Walker Lindh (born February 9, ) is an.

He was released on parole on May 23, , for a three-year period of supervised release. A convert to Sunni Islam in California at age 16, Lindh traveled to Yemen in to study Arabic and stayed there for 10 months. He later returned in , then went to Afghanistan to aid the Taliban in fighting against the Afghan Northern Alliance. He received training at Al-Farouq , a training camp associated with al-Qaeda , designated a terrorist organization by the United States and other countries.

While at the camp, he attended a lecture by Osama bin Laden. Lindh had previously received training with Harkat-ul-Mujahideen , an internationally designated terrorist organization based in Pakistan. Lindh went by the name Sulayman al-Faris during his time in Afghanistan but prefers the name Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi today. Lindh was born in Washington, D.

Lindh, as the middle of three children in the family. When he was 10 years old, his family moved to San Anselmo, California. At age 14, his health improved. He enrolled at Redwood High School as a freshman.