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SAN FRANCISCO — The father of American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh said Wednesday that his son is handling prison well nearly a decade after being captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan.

Frank Lindh told students at the University of San Francisco School of Law on Wed nesday that his son, now 30, spends his days studying ancient Islamic texts and is earning a liberal-arts degree from Indiana University.

“He’s a very calm and centered person,” Frank Lindh said of his son. “He’s very spiritual. He does his daily prayers. He’s an observant Muslim. . . . We talk heart to heart a lot.”

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