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To: Thehammer who wrote (225311)	2/5/2002 6:15:40 PM
From: JEB	Respond to of 769670

Yessss, ...now that's a good article!

To: Thehammer who wrote (225311)	2/5/2002 7:04:19 PM
From: JEB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - John Walker Lindh, the Californian accused of fighting alongside the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan, was indicted on Tuesday on 10 charges including conspiracy to kill Americans. The indictment, handed up by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, and announced by Attorney General John Ashcroft, added four more charges to a criminal complaint filed against the 20-year-old Lindh last month. The charges carry penalties of three life terms plus six additional 10-year sentences and 30 years in jail, Ashcroft said. None carries the death penalty. The announcement came a day before Lindh was to appear in court. The indictment means government prosecutors at a hearing on Wednesday will not have to present evidence showing probable cause that a crime was committed. Lindh has yet to enter a plea, but his father has proclaimed his innocence. His lawyers said on Tuesday they would ask Magistrate Judge W. Curtis Sewell to release Lindh while awaiting trial. "In the weeks after Sept. 11, the indictment charges that Walker Lindh remained with his Taliban fighting group, he remained despite having learned of the terrorist attacks on his homeland, despite knowing that Osama bin Laden was responsible for those attacks and despite the knowledge that additional terrorist attacks and acts were planned," Ashcroft said. After the U.S. assault began on the Taliban in October, the indictment says Lindh "remained at his post, shoulder to shoulder with the Taliban, armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades," Ashcroft said. The additional four counts were conspiring to contribute services to Al Qaeda, contributing services to Al Qaeda, conspiring to supply services to the Taliban and using and carrying firearms and destructive devices in crimes of violence. The incitement formalized the six previous charges of conspiring to kill Americans abroad, engaging in prohibited transactions with the deposed Taliban government that harbored Osama bin Laden and providing support to two terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, blamed by Washington for the Sept. 11 hijacked plane attacks. Sewell still must decide whether Lindh, who was captured in Afghanistan and sent back to the United States to face the charges, should be imprisoned while awaiting trial. story.news.yahoo.com