The complex legal story of John Walker Lindh, an American captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan fighting alongside the Taliban shortly after 9/11 — a case that set the precedent for how the US prosecuted Americans caught up in the War on Terror.
▶ Watch on Paramount+ 🔍 Find more docsLindh's case is one of the odder, less-remembered footnotes of the post-9/11 era, and this film uses it to examine harder questions about radicalization, justice and how America decided to treat its own citizens caught fighting for the other side.
If Detainee 001's focus on an American radicalized abroad interested you, Return of the Taliban and Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror cover the broader conflict Lindh was caught up in.
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