CBS Evening News - 2002-01-23
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[0:00] New Year's Wish. Next extra.
[0:06] The American Taliban on American soil.
[0:09] John Walker returns to the United States
[0:12] tonight to face charges he conspired
[0:15] with terrorists to kill US citizens in
[0:17] Afghanistan.
[0:19] The Enron company mess. A key witness
[0:22] refuses to testify before Congress. Eye
[0:26] on America. Smuggling cheap labor into
[0:29] the USA along the chicken trail. And we
[0:33] take you inside Afghanistan. Free the
[0:36] Taliban, but as you will see, not free
[0:39] of danger.
[0:46] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:49] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:52] headquarters in New York.
[0:54] >> Good evening. In this country's war
[0:56] against terrorism, one US citizen chose
[0:58] to fight alongside the enemy.
[1:00] 20-year-old John Walker, the American
[1:03] Taliban, is back in the United States
[1:05] tonight to face charges he conspired to
[1:08] kill fellow Americans. Charges that
[1:10] could get him life in prison. Walker
[1:13] will be tried in a US civilian court,
[1:15] his rights protected by the US
[1:17] Constitution, and as CBS's Jim Stewart
[1:20] reports, his life protected by US
[1:23] agents. Jim
[1:24] >> Dan, the sun was just setting when young
[1:26] John Walker returned to his home
[1:28] country. This Air Force KCT10 tanker had
[1:32] departed Inserik, Turkey hours earlier
[1:34] with Walker aboard. He was in restraints
[1:36] during much of the 18-hour flight. That
[1:39] was followed by a non-stop transfer to
[1:41] the jail that will serve as his home
[1:43] during the next several weeks or months.
[1:45] Then it will be just a few hours rest
[1:47] and straight to court.
[1:50] Walker's journey began when he was
[1:51] airlifted from the US amphibious ship
[1:53] Batine to an air b