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Date Posted: 19:22:15 04/03/02 Wed
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Another American Taliban

A Louisiana-born man was captured with the Taliban forces in Afghanistan last fall, ABCNEWS has learned, and U.S. officials are trying to decide what to do with him.

Yaser Esam Hamdi, who has been held for several months at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was born to Saudi parents in Louisiana, sources said. Therefore, Hamdi, 22, has dual U.S. and Saudi citizenship unless he has renounced his U.S. citizenship.
U.S. officials say Hamdi was swept up near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, in the fighting last fall and has been claiming U.S. citizenship for months, but there was no proof until this week when authorities found a birth certificate stating Hamdi was born in Baton Rouge, La., on Nov. 17, 1979.

Hamdi is apparently the second U.S. citizen found among the Taliban and al Qaeda fighters captured during the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan. Sources told ABCNEWS that Hamdi will likely be tried in civilian court, just like John Walker Lindh, the other American captured with enemy fighters.

Lindh, 21, faces 10 charges of conspiring to murder U.S. nationals, providing support and services to foreign terrorist organizations including al Qaeda and using firearms and destructive devices during crimes of violence. Three of the charges carry a maximum life sentence; the other seven have prison terms of up to 90 years.

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