"But the time does not fit the crime," she said in a prison interview.

Yasin hasn't been seen or heard from since the 2002 prison interview.

She begins her account of the case with a series of prison interviews with him.

"This is," he said in a prison interview, "the decision that shaped my life since."

There have been some good studies of what the Taliban are today, drawn from prison interviews and such.

"The fight for liberation is not only with weapons," he said in a prison interview.

Ms. Bennett's offer to make her client available for a prison interview appeared to be part of the strategy to draw attention to the case.

For a prison interview, he has applied gel to his mane of black hair.

"They say I have a mentality of a kid, but I don't know what that means," he said in the prison interview.

Mr. Sands had agreed to the prison interview on the condition that nothing he said be published until after his sentencing.