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The lawyer and parents of American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh asked President Bush on Wednesday to commute his 20-year prison term, citing the case of an Australian man who was sentenced to less than a year for aiding terrorism.

After years of silence, the father of American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh called on President Bush on Thursday to grant clemency to his son, who he says was wrongly maligned as a traitor and murderer.

By Adam Tanner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The father of an American jailed for fighting alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan said on Thursday his son had been tortured and unjustly punished amid public hysteria over the September 11 attacks.

By Michael Kahn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Lawyers for John Walker Lindh, whose journey from an affluent San Francisco suburb to the battlefields of Afghanistan shocked and angered Americans, have asked the Bush administration to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting alongside the Taliban.