“Had I realized in the beginning that the fighting was part of a larger civil war in which the foreign mujahideen were aligned with the Taliban, I would not have joined.”

About John Walker Lindh

Public Figure • American

John Walker Lindh is an American citizen who was captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. Raised in California, he converted to Islam as a teenager and traveled to Yemen and...