This is the first thing I've read on the Lindh case in the American press that makes any sense. I found the whole Spann father shunning of the Lindh father completely crazy, especially when you consider that Spann died committing war crimes against, among others, Lindh, and Lindh had absolutely nothing to do with Spann's death. The cause of Spann's death was a combination of American refusal to conform to the codes of civilized nations, his own misdeads, and, to be blunt, his own stupidity.