“Lawyers for John Walker Lindh, the young American captured in Afghanistan after joining the Taliban and now serving a 20-year prison sentence, called on the Justice Department on Friday to review his case in light of the department’s announcement this week that it might soon free another American captured with the Taliban.

‘We hope that the government gives Mr. Lindh the same reconsideration they have extended to Mr. Hamdi,’ the lawyers said in a statement, referring to Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American-born Saudi who is expected to be released soon to return to his family in Saudi Arabia.” (New York Times)