John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan after he had joined the Taliban, asked the Justice Department on Tuesday to reduce his 20-year prison sentence after hearing news that another captured man was being released, his parents and lawyers said.”Despite what people think, or may think, John Lindh took no action whatsoever against his native country,” Mr. Lindh’s mother, Marilyn Lindh, said at a news conference here on Tuesday. “I hope America can find it in her heart to forgive John.”Full Story