Theodore Bunker | Thursday, 23 May 2019 12:56 PM
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday ripped the release of John Walker Lindh, the first American to be detained in the war on terror, as “deeply troubling and wrong,†CNN reports.
Lindh, who became known as “American Taliban†after his capture in Afghanistan where he had been a member of the Taliban, was released on Thursday after serving 17 of his 20-year sentence. He will spend the next three years under the supervision of his probation officer in Virginia.
"There is something deeply troubling and wrong about this," Pompeo told “Fox & Friends†in an interview.
Lindh has admitted, according to records of his interrogations, that he participated in a Taliban uprising in a detention camp located in northern Afghanistan that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of prisoners and CIA officer Johnny Michael Spann, though prosecutors have not said that Lindh was involved in the officer’s death.
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