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Old 07-15-2002, 02:19 PM  
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Guilty of a Crime?

Without having all of the facts, I personally do not understand why Walker is guilty of any serious crime, if any crime.

He, for whatever his reasons, became absorbed with Islam.

He, for whatever his reasons were, became absorbed by the "Taliban" form of Islam. "Taliban" means students of Islam.

He, for whatever his reasons were, decided he wanted to join the Talibans fight against the Afghan "Northern Alliance", which at one point in time the US government had labled the "Northern Alliance" to be "drug dealers". The Taliban were trying to shut down the drug trade as it being against their religion.

Because of Taliban Law Walker could not become a member of the Taliban Army, but had to become a member of al Qaeda, as did all people of foreign nationality.

The al Qaeda was formed by Usama Bin Laden and others. After it found a home in Afghanistan, it was the boot camp for the training of Taliban soldiers, and all foreign nationals that wanted to fight for the Taliban against the "Northern Alliance".

The reason Taliban soldiers trained in boot camps built and run by the al Qaeda is because the Afghan Taliban government could not afford its own training vacilities, nor the expense of training soldiers. Bin Laden provided this service to the Taliban as a payback for allowing his organization to be allowed to stay in Afganistan.

Bottom line is this: Not all members of al Qaeda were trained to be terrorists, many, if not the majority were trained to be soldiers in the fight against the "Northern Alliance". Taliban soldiers were trained in al Qaeda military facilities, because they did not have their own training facilities and all foreign people that wanted to join the Taliban's fight against the "Northern Alliance", by law could not belong to the Taliban Army, thus had to be a member of the al Qaeda forces.

After 9/11 we attacked the Taliban and al Qaeda forces. Walker was caught up in history.

Some say that once he realized it was Americans that was attacking he should have somehow deserted the al Qaeda forces. He could have attempted this but probably it would have been suicidal.

Some say that he could have told Spann (CIA agent) that he was an American citizen. Yes he could have, but the consequences of telling Spann that he was an American citizen are not known and one can only specultate.

Some think that if he would have admitted to Spann he was an American citizen Spann would be alive today. I think that is a stretch.

The Government in its original 10 counts lay out many allegations, but allegations don't mean truth. I read the allegations and they look like a stretch to me.

Ashooooos comment: "Today marks an important victory in America's war on terrorism.", to me is ridiculous.

I personally think Walker is just a "dumb fuck" that was overcome by history.

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