In the end, the 21-year-old kid with the close-cropped hair bore little resemblance to the wild-eyed, unkempt American Taliban captured by U.S. forces in Qala-i-Jangi, Afghanistan. JOHN WALKER LINDH pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy-the Taliban-and got 20 years in prison, killing what might have been the first major trial in the war on terror
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"We shall see who will die first, either I or the authorities who have arranged the death sentence for me."
AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH,
Islamic militant convicted of the kidnap and murder of journalist...
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