Of the 86 prisoners who survived the battle , one was found to be John Walker Lindh , an American convert to Islam who had moved to Afghanistan to help the Taliban battle the Northern Alliance prior to the September 11 attacks . Shortly after the battle , an embedded journalist working for CNN , Robert Young Pelton , managed to identify the badly injured and hypothermic Lindh as an American . Lindh was then separated from other prisoners and his life was saved by an American special forces medic . Lindh was later repatriated to the United States to face charges of treason . In 2002 , he was found guilty of aiding and supporting the enemy and sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Battle of Qala-i-Jangi