American Taliban John Walker Lindh met with convicted ISIS supporter, FBI says trends now
The 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh was observed by the FBI meeting with a convicted Islamic State supporter after both men were released from US prison, according to a recently unsealed court filing.
The FBI photographed Lindh meeting with Ali Shukri Amin on three different occasions in August and October of 2021 for about three hours, according to the filing reviewed by DailyMail.com.
The document does not state where the meetings occurred, but both Lindh and Amin were residing in northern Virginia at the time.
The meetings violate a condition of Amin's lifetime term of supervised release, which bars him from meeting with known extremists, prosecutors said.
Lindh has not been charged with violating the terms of his release, even though the meetings occurred while he was on supervised release. Lindh is no longer subject to supervision, as his term of supervised release expired last year.
The 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh (left) was observed by the FBI meeting with Ali Shukri Amin (right) a convicted Islamic State supporter, court filings say
Lindh, a US citizen, was captured as an enemy combatant during the initial US invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001, and admitted to fighting for the Taliban
It's not entirely clear why authorities used the meeting as a basis to claim a violation against Amin but not against Lindh, given that they both were barred from meeting with other extremists.
Lindh, a US citizen, was captured as an enemy combatant during the initial US invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001, and admitted to fighting for the Taliban in pleading guilty to two felony counts.
The new court filing says that Lindh, who was released from federal prison in 2019, 'remains a known extremist and is believed by the FBI to hold extremist ideations.'
The court documents also show that authorities had other reasons to be concerned about Amin beyond his meetings with Lindh.
Amin, who lives in Dumfries, is also accused of corresponding online with an unnamed British individual described as a 'known extremist' until that person was arrested in February 2022 by British authorities.
In his conversations with the British individual, authorities say Amin provided guidance related to the teachings of two Islamic preachers considered extremists by the FBI, Amad Musa Jabril and Abula Al-Azzam, according to the court document.
Amin (left and right) was 17 when he pleaded guilty in 2015 to helping the Islamic State group by using social media to provide advice and encouragement to the group and its supporters
The document also accuses Amin of using a virtual private network to conceal his online activity and evade the supervision of his parole officer.
Michael Jensen, an investigator with the University of Maryland's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, said terrorism defendants are assigned to veteran probation officers who devote significant time and energy to helping them transition back into their communities, and
