an 18 or 19 year old idealist goes to a foreign country to study a religeon.---xrundog is correct, this kid didn't have any idea who he was fighting or why.--treason my butt.-- JonR, i don't know anything about this mandela business, because there is no comparison, oranges and apples, but why is the family a bunch of sickos?--- i think if this country wasn't in this furor over terrorism, forgetting for the moment that the bastards that killed 3000+ people were all saudi's, and not afganistan taliban, this kid might have had a fair trial.-- why the hell are we bombing the rubble the afganistan live in to make more rubble.--now we are going to finish the job his father didn't, we are going to have a surprise attack on iraq. oops, did i give away a secret, will charlie hang rick for treason?--- will this moron ashcroft get his TIPS going before some one realizes he is a nut.--are we going to have a soviet union kind of life, with a block spy leader that we all report to. are any of you paying attention?---i await the knock on the door in the middle of the night. it ain't paranoia when you can see it happenning.