The Life and Times of John Walker Lindh

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Sana'a, Yemen: Religious immsersion at Al-Iman University
From 1998 to 2000, Lindh studies Arabic in Sana'a for several months, visting home briefly in 1999. In e-mails, he questions his mother's attachment to the U.S., suggesting she move abroad.

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