NBC Nightly News - 2002-01-15

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[0:07] [music]

[0:11] [music]

[0:15] Conspiracy to kill the government

[0:17] tonight charges John Walker Lynn, the

[0:19] American Taliban, the possible penalty,

[0:22] life in prison. Fallout. Enron's

[0:26] accounting firm cleans out the Houston

[0:27] office over destroyed documents and

[0:30] emails. A whistleblower describes her

[0:32] warning. A collapse was coming. In

[0:35] depth, our series Heart at work. Your

[0:38] kids finishing college, but now what?

[0:40] The worst outlook for jobs in decades.

[0:43] And sky high. Long-distance phone rates

[0:46] soaring. Why so expensive? The truth

[0:49] about the hidden fees. The price of

[0:51] staying in touch.

[0:54] >> [music]

[0:55] >> From NBC News world headquarters in New

[0:58] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom

[1:02] Bro. [music]

[1:04] >> Good evening. Conspiracy to kill. A

[1:07] 20-year-old Californian who went to

[1:09] Pakistan to pursue Islamic studies and

[1:12] then went to war against the United

[1:13] States tonight faces the possibility of

[1:15] life in prison. John Walker Lynn will be

[1:18] charged with conspiracy to kill

[1:20] Americans and he will be tried in a

[1:22] federal court, not a military tribunal.

[1:25] Attorney General John Ashcro made that

[1:27] announcement today and NBC's Justice

[1:29] Department correspondent Pete Williams

[1:31] has the tales tonight.

[1:34] >> The Justice Department tonight accuses

[1:35] John Walkerind of repeatedly making

[1:37] choices that took him deeper and deeper

[1:39] inside Bin Laden's terrorist network.

[1:41] And Walker stuck with al-Qaeda. The

[1:43] government says even after he knew of

[1:45] that organization's plans to attack

[1:47] America,

[1:47] >> he chose to embrace fanatics

[1:51] and his allegiance to those fanatics and

[1:54] terrorists ne