Reuters American Taliban Fighter Due in US Soon - Ashcroft WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Accused U.S. Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh
was expected to leave Afghanistan soon to stand trial in the United
States, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Monday. ``I don't want to provide a specific time during which he will be in
the United States but I expect him to be here shortly,'' Ashcroft said in
an interview on CNN's Larry King program. ``He is the subject of a complaint ... and he will be brought to
justice,'' Ashcroft said. Walker, 20, who goes by his mother's name, was charged on Jan. 15,
after 45 days of interrogation, with conspiring to kill U.S. nationals in
the Afghanistan war and with providing support to Osama bin Laden's al
Qaeda network. The charges did not include treason and therefore spared Walker from
facing a possible death penalty. He is currently being held on the USS Bataan, a warship in the northern
Arabian Sea. U.S. officials have said Walker would be handed over to the Department
of Justice to face trial in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Also
facing trial there is Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan
descent, on charges of complicity in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United
States that killed more than 3,000 people. Copyright © 2002. Reuters. All rights reserved. saved from url: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-attack-walker.html
January 22, 2002
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