投稿者 X_file_molder 日時 2001 年 12 月 04 日 04:53:32:
(回答先: Re: アッラーの思し召しですかねー 投稿者 あっしら 日時 2001 年 12 月 04 日 02:04:04)
Monday, 3 December, 2001, 11:52 GMT
America's home-grown Taleban fighter
US military forces in Afghanistan have taken custody of a young American from Washington DC, whose admiration for the Taleban landed him a role fighting his own country as a foreign volunteer for the Islamic regime.
John Walker was one of the few foreign fighters who survived a bloody revolt at a prison fortress near Mazar-e-Sharif last week which left hundreds of fighters and one American CIA agent dead.
He was discovered at the weekend after Northern Alliance troops flooded the basement of the fort to force the last bedraggled prisoners from their hiding place.
Mr Walker, who went under the name of Abdul Hamid, was described by a Newsweek reporter who interviewed him as a "white, educated and apparently middle class American", hidden under a ragged beard and layers of black soot.
He is currently being treated for gunshot and shrapnel wounds sustained during the prison rebellion.
Convert to the cause
Mr Walker was born in Washington DC and grew up near San Francisco. Brought up a Catholic, he converted to Islam aged 16 and later went to Pakistan to study the Koran.
"In my travels I came into contact with some of the original teachers of the Taleban movement. The ideas of the Taleban occupied my mind a lot," he told Newsweek.
Six months ago he crossed the border and headed for the capital Kabul, where he offered to serve the Taleban.
Lacking the local languages, he was told by the authorities to contact forces supporting Osama Bin Laden. He was trained in a combat camp in Northern Afghanistan before being sent to Kashmir, where he fought alongside Pakistani allies of the Taleban.
Most recently, he fought with the Taleban at the siege of Kunduz and surrendered to the warlord General Rashid Dostum along with hundreds of other foreigners when the two sides negotiated a deal.
Fortress fear
It was at this point that he was taken to the fortress, where he described an atmosphere of fear among the 500 soldiers who had been incarcerated.
"They put us in the basement and left us overnight. Early in the morning they began taking us out slowly, one-by-one, into the compound. Our hands were tied and they were beating and kicking some of us.
"Some of the Taleban were scared. They thought we were all going to be killed."
Mr Walker survived the rebellion hiding in the cells in the basement, before the Northern Alliance flooded the area on Friday.
"We spent the night in the freezing cold water. Those who could stand up survived, but there were a lot of wounded who couldn't stand and they were drowned."
On Saturday morning they came out.
There is no word as to the precise retribution Mr Walker will face for his actions.
If his American citizenship is confirmed, he may be returned to the US to stand trial by a military tribunal.
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Everyone who knows him loves him. Everyone expected him to become a scholar
Marilyn Walker
mother
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Some of the Taleban were scared - they thought we were all going to be killed
John Walker
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BBC news
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まさに。
「アッラーの思し召し」ですよね。
>彼が、“マザリシャリフの大虐殺”の真相究明に重要な役割を果たしてくれるような気がします。
本当にそう思います。
>米国人でしかも白人みたいですから、アラブ人の言葉よりも、彼の主張のほうが米国国民にも受け入れられやすいでしょう。こういう人があの大虐殺を生き延びて生還したというのは不思議な感じがします。
奇跡に近いですね。
タリバン兵の中に自国の若者がいたと云うことで、心あるアメリカ人にとっては
あの大虐殺が只の「数字」ではなく、一人一人が生きている「人間」だという実感が湧くのではないでしょうか。
>ブッシュ政権崩壊の一翼を担ってくれるかもしれません。
そうですね、本当に。
題名には必ず「阿修羅さんへ」と記述してください。