A California man who was captured fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2001 has been released from prison US media report The federal
A California man who was captured fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2001 has been released from prison, U. S. media report.
The federal Bureau of Prisons said that John Walker Lindh, known as the American Taliban, was released on May 23 from a high-security prison in Indiana, according to the AP news agency.
Lindh, 38, was set to be freed three years early for good behavior in a 20-year sentence.
The man converted to Islam at 16 and joined the Taliban in mid-2001. After the United States invaded Afghanistan following the September 11,2001, attacks, he was one of hundreds of Taliban fighters captured on November 25,2001.
