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...surprisingly hard to say. For someone who has dominated the U.S. media for months, Walker's identity remains markedly indistinct. He is, as both Woody Allen and Winston Churchill might say, a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. It's a public relations trick many professionals would love to pull off so well: we know so little about him - and we're left wanting to know everything...
...Walker is, of course, our first real scandal in years. Less salacious than O.J., more emotionally charged than the Chandra Levy debacle, Walker's case pits good against evil (if you believe the New York City tabloids), family against religion and even God against country...
...Walker is home again, after more than two years abroad: home again in hostile territory. Wednesday night, scores of photographer scrambled over each other to land a shot of the newly-shorn, puffy-faced perp as he stumbled, shackled, toward the Alexandria detention center. We have almost no idea who this guy is, and yet we can't stop talking about him: we speculate about his privileged upbringing, his parents' divorce, his reportedly rocky relationship with his father, Frank Lindh. Two years ago, Walker traveled abroad ostensibly to study Islam, and somewhere along the way he decided it might...
...Walker's parents appeared outside that courthouse Thursday morning after John's first appearance there. (The accused stood quietly before the judge, answering politely when asked if he understood the charges against him.) "John is innocent," his father told the assembled press. "My love for John is unconditional and absolute," his mother choked through her tears. It was a bracingly normal display of parental love - utterly devoid of politics or blame. Walker will remain in custody at least until his detention hearing, scheduled for February...
...That's pretty much what we know about John Walker. What we don't know, on the other hand, could fill volumes. Did he fire a weapon against the United States? Was he brainwashed by the Taliban? Does he still want to be an American citizen? Could he have issued a warning before the September 11th attacks...