July 15, 2002: The 'American Taliban' accepts a plea bargain

Sunday 15 July 2012

All charges but one against American citizen John Walker Lindh were dropped when he accepted a plea bargain July 15, 2002. U.S. forces found Lindh in the country's invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 and learned he had served as a Taliban soldier. He pled guilty to one count of supplying services to the Taliban in exchange for a 20-year prison sentence and an agreement to cooperate with the U.S. government in its investigation of terrorist group al-Qaida.