According to the Justice Department, “Osama bin Laden sent 50 terrorists on 20 suicide missions against the United States and Israel as recently as last summer, the feds charged yesterday in a 10-count indictment of American Taliban John Walker Lindh.

“The indictment charges that Lindh learned about the existence of the suicide missions while he trained in a terror camp in Afghanistan and met bin Laden, but it doesn’t claim he knew the details,” The The New York Post reports. “The indictment isn’t specific about the newly revealed suicide missions ordered by bin Laden.”

It says: ‘In or about June and July 2001, Lindh remained at the al-Farooq [terrorist] camp and participated fully in its training activities, after having been told early in his stay at the camp that bin Laden had sent forth some 50 people to carry out 20 suicide terrorist operations against the United States and Israel.’ The feds say the Sept. 11 attacks involved 20 people — the 19 hijackers and their alleged conspirator, Zacarias Moussaoui, who was busted on immigration charges and was in jail on the day of the attacks.

The feds wouldn’t comment on other terror missions. The indictment says Lindh fought alongside al Qaeda after Sept. 11, ‘despite having been told that bin Laden ordered the attacks, that additional terrorist attacks were planned and that additional al Qaeda personnel were being sent from training camps to the front lines to protect bin Laden.’

…Making the Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute Bin Walker for treason all the more baffling. If ever there was a guy who should be hanged in a public square, Walker’s that guy.

But hell, I’m going easy on the little scab-leak. Go visit Balloon Juice and treat yourself to tales of wrist-hanging and blood pudding. (And of course, regular protein wisdom readers already know what Boja thinks about Walker…)