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ADDISON PUBLIC LIBRARY Two Friendship Plaza Addison, Illinois 60101 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/johnwalkerlindhaOOOOjess John Walker Lindh American Taliban Sara Jess, Gabriel Beck Brain-Mind.com UniversityPressCalifomia.com University Press, California John Walker Lindh JOHN WALKER LINDH: AMERICAN TALIBAN -A Psychological Study- by Sara Jess, Gabriel Beck R. Joseph, Editor-in-Chief Copyright © 2002 Rhawn Joseph, Ph.D. All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including photocopying, or utilized in any information storage and retrieval system without permission of the copyright owner. Jess, Sara John Walker Lindh: American Taliban — 2nd ed. ISBN: 0971644594 1. Terrorism. 2. Taliban 3. Holy War. 4. Osama bin Laden. 5. September 11.6. al-Qaeda Cover Photos: The Sun, Gamma Press, Getty Images, As¬ sociated Press Quotes-Spelling: The numerous spelling errors made by John Walker Lindh in his Newsgroup postings were left as is. Some quotes were also obtained from Salon.com, Associ¬ ated Press, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Examiner, & P. J. Corkery. Proceeds from the sale of this book will not be provided to John Walker Lindh or his defense team. University Press, California UniversityPressCalifomia.com Brain-Mind.com San Jose, California 2 American Taliban CAVEATS & SOURCES “This is to put you on notice that publica¬ tion would be at your peril.” —Brosnahan, Harris, West, Chatterjee, attorneys for John Walker Lindh. We relied on eight major sources in researching, writing, and publishing this book. 1) We were able to trace John Walker Lindh’s internet newsgroup postings, beginning at age 14 and continuing until he turned 17. These postings parallel his activities as re¬ ported in the public record, including his name change to Suleyman, and his trip to Ireland which is also mentioned in these newsgroup postings. Some are even signed “John Lindh.” These postings of¬ fer a road map into his mind and mental development, and chronicle his metamorphosis from pretend gangster rap star to holy warrior. Other major sources include: 2) Statements made by his par¬ ents to all the major news networks, newspapers and magazines. 3) Justice Department and FBI court filings. 4) Filings by Lindh’s attorneys. 5) Taped and written media interviews with John Walker Lindh. 6) Research we already conducted in researching our books: “America Attacked” and “Terrorism, Future Wars Against America.” 7) Interviews and personal accounts of those who knew John Walker Lindh. 8) Good old fashioned investigative research into the groups and individuals Lindh was associating with. We also made repeated attempts to contact John Walker Lindh’s family, and repeatedly contacted his attorneys. And, be¬ cause we wished to present Lindh’s side of the story, we offered to print, unedited, in a special section of the book, up to 50 pages of material submitted by his family and attorneys, who instead, declined this unprecedented offer and opportunity. In writing and researching this book, we had an advantage 3 John Walker Lindh over other news gathering organizations as we had already con¬ ducted considerable research on terrorism and religious extrem¬ ists groups—research which enabled us to fill in the gaps. In con¬ sequence, reporters working, for example, for Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, etc., and producers for ABC News, CBS News, and CBS-60 minutes, contacted us and attempted to pump us for information. And why is that? Because we got the Big Story that they missed. As admitted by ABC news producer, Beth Tribolet: “You guys are three steps ahead of the rest of us.” We were so confident about the accuracy, factual basis and the veracity of this book that we even offered Lindh’s attorneys an advanced copy of the final manuscript and informed them if they could find anything wrong, anything that was false or inaccurate, we would allow them to point out any errors and we would print their rebuttal. This was unprecedented. No other publisher, to our knowledge, has ever made such an offer. Yet, we did so as we were confident the book was accurate. They declined our offer. Instead, Lindh’s attorneys decided to denounce the book with¬ out reading it. They in fact threatened us without ever having seen a copy. This is the book that Lindh’s attorneys do not want you to read. And why is that? Read on and you shall see. 4 American Taliban John Walker Lindh: American Taliban -A Psychological Study- Sara Jess, Gabriel Beck John Walker Lindh 6 American Taliban There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. There are people who wear the same face for years; naturally it wears out, it gets dirty, it splits at the folds, it stretches, like gloves one has worn on a journey. These are thrifty, simple people; they do not change their face, they never even have it cleaned. It is good enough, they say, and who can prove to them the contrary? The question of course arises, since they have several faces, what do they do with the others? They store them up. Their chil¬ dren will wear them. But sometimes, too, it happens that their dogs go out with them on. And why not? A face is a face. Other people put their faces on, one after the other, with uncanny rapidity and wear them out. At first it seems to them they are provided for always; but they scarcely reach forty and they have come to their last. This naturally is something quite tragic, as their last is worn through in a week, has holes, and in many places is thin as paper; and then little by little the under layer, the no face, comes through, and they go about with that. -R. M. Rilke John Walker Lindh 8
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