I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

As an adolescent Lindh participated in IRC chat rooms with the IRC nickname Mujahid. A convert to Islam in California at age 16 Lindh went to Yemen in 1998 to study Arabic for 10 months. S.

He later returned in 2000 then went to Afghanistan to aid the fighters. He did not know about the planned September 11 2001 attacks.