John Walker Lindh Sues For Prison Prayer Group

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John Walker Lindh Sues For Prison Prayer Group

 

 

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John Walker Lindh was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 after fighting with the Taliban.

 

Carrie Johnson and Margot Williams

August 27, 2012

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 allegedly fighting alongside the Taliban.

His story was the focus of a Law and Order episode, and a song called "John Walker's Blues" by Steve Earle.

For the past five years, Lindh has been living in a secret prison facility in Indiana with convicted terrorists, neo-Nazis and other inmates who get special monitoring.

On Monday, Lindh will come out of the shadows and into a federal courthouse in Indianapolis, as the plaintiff in a