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==In popular culture== * In a ''[[National Geographic Channel|National Geographic]]'' documentary, ''Taliban Uprising'', the only video of Lindh speaking since his capture is shown.<ref name="Taliban Uprising"/> * The documentary ''Good Morning, Afghanistan'' by Damien Degueldre features the Battle of Mazar-i-Sharif, where John Walker was being held and later transferred by the Northern Alliance to US Special Forces Operatives. * [[DJ Krush]] and [[Anticon]] recorded the song "Song for John Walker" for the 2002 album ''[[The Message at the Depth]]''. * The 2003 book "My Heart Became Attached" by Mark Kukis was a biography of John Walker Lindh, tracing his life from childhood to radicalization to prison<ref>Kukis, Mark, ''My Heart Became Attached: The Strange Journey of John Walker Lindh.'' Brassey's, Inc., 2003 {{ISBN?}}</ref> * A musical interpretation of John Walker Lindh's story was staged in 2004 by Jean Strong and John McCloskey at the New York International Fringe Festival <ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/theater/fringe-festival-reviews-musings-on-murkier-aspects-of-humans-war-and-politics-722871.html |title=Fringe Festival Reviews: Musings on Murkier Aspects of Humans, War and Politics |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 23, 2004 |access-date=August 24, 2020 |archive-date=May 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528052024/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/theater/fringe-festival-reviews-musings-on-murkier-aspects-of-humans-war-and-politics-722871.html |url-status=live |last1=Sweeney |first1=Camille }}</ref> * [[Steve Earle]] recorded a song about Lindh titled "John Walker's Blues". It was released on his 2002 album ''[[Jerusalem (Steve Earle album)|Jerusalem]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title='John Walker's Blues' meets the boos|url=https://articles.cnn.com/2002-07-23/entertainment/walker.lindh.song_1_steve-earle-john-walker-s-blues-guitar-town?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ|publisher=CNN|access-date=January 27, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130307120837/http://articles.cnn.com/2002-07-23/entertainment/walker.lindh.song_1_steve-earle-john-walker-s-blues-guitar-town?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ|archive-date=March 7, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> * The [[bluegrass music|progressive bluegrass]] band [[Hot Buttered Rum (band)|Hot Buttered Rum]] wrote and recorded ''The Trial Of John Walker Lindh'' for their 2002 album ''Live at the Freight and Salvage.'' * The [[Law & Order season 13|13th-season]] premiere of the police procedural and legal drama television series ''[[Law & Order]]'' is based on the Lindh case. * A novel by [[Pearl Abraham]] entitled ''American Taliban'' (2010) is based on Lindh. * In episode seven of the first season of the television series ''[[Entourage (U.S. TV series)|Entourage]]'' Vince is offered a role in a fictitious movie based on "the John Walker Lindh story". * In author [[Doug Stanton]]'s book ''Horse Soldiers'' Lindh is mentioned as one of the Al-Qaeda combatants, then as a prisoner. * In the popular philosophy collection ''Dune and Philosophy'', American philosophy expert Shane Ralston defends Lindh's character as "quintessentially American" given the idealism, bravery and religious fervor with which he served the Taliban forces in Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dune and philosophy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AmflF2QmEyQC|year=2011|isbn=978-0812697278|last1=Nicholas|first1=Jeffery| publisher=Open Court |access-date=January 7, 2021|archive-date=July 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704163858/https://books.google.com/books?id=AmflF2QmEyQC|url-status=live}}{{page?|date=August 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Shane|last1=Ralston|title=The American Fremen|url=https://www.academia.edu/28498618|journal=[[Academia.edu]]|date=April 21, 2011|access-date=December 23, 2018|archive-date=August 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210807164658/https://www.academia.edu/28498618|url-status=live}}</ref> * The Spanish writer Enrique Falcón included a poem titled John Walker Lindh on the book ''Taberna Roja'' (2008). * The podcast ''[[You're Wrong About]]'' featured Lindh in an episode titled "The American Taliban".<ref>{{cite web|title=The American Taliban|url=https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/michael-hobbes/youre-wrong-about/e/61706806|access-date=August 22, 2019|archive-date=August 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821232554/https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/michael-hobbes/youre-wrong-about/e/61706806|url-status=live}}</ref> * Lindh is initially referred to as "the Irishman" in the 2021 book "First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11" by [[Toby Harnden]]. * [[Showtime Networks]] released a documentary, ''Detainee 001'', about Lindh's capture and interrogations, in September 2021.<ref name="Detainee001-Showtime">{{cite web |title=Detainee 001 |url=https://www.sho.com/titles/3452898/detainee-001 |website=Showtime Networks}}</ref>
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