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US EMBASSY SPITS ON FIRST AMENDMENT

IN AFGHANISTAN

US State Department tried to shut down the Afghan Newspaper that called for Idema’s release. NDS and FBI agents Seize 10,000 Afghan papers from Kabul printing press before this weeks issue was released with another story about Idema and Team, including US and Afghan government documents reprinted proving Idema innocent. Karzai government issues arrest warrants for Newspaper Publisher!

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The Kabul Times, Afghan News, and Cheragh Daily all have a circulation of about 500 to 1000 papers and usually contain between four to six pages. The Voice of Mujahadeen, with 24 pages and color printing throughout, is sweeping the country as the nation’s most sought after newspaper.

With another 24 pages in this edition and more than 20,000 papers printed and distributed in Afghanistan, the Voice of the Mujahadeen has already established itself as the largest paper in the country. According to government officials it is quickly becoming the most powerful paper in the country, already being credited with assisting the resignation of more than five Afghan officials, including the Minister of Interior Ahmad Ali Jalali and his spokesman, Lutfullah Mashal.

Voice of the Mujahadeen continues to be the largest paper printed since the fall of the Taliban, and the highest circulation of any paper in Afghanistan to date. This week’s edition contains fewer pages in English, which still appear to be aimed at US and coalition security forces.

The Taliban were driven into the south of Afghanistan by a US led coalition of Northern Alliance troops and US Special Forces soldiers. Northern Alliance military divisions which have still not submitted to the UN mandated demobilization or turned in weapons are threatening to action if Idema is not released voluntarily.

Afghanistan’s Voice of the Mujahadeen calls Idema and Team Mujahadeen Heroes on Day After Election

(9/19/05) Today’s Voice of the Mujahadeen has a two page spread written in the Farsi language with information never before revealed about the [Idema] case. It also features a prominent photo layout of Idema praying at National Hero Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud’s grave in the Panjshir and surrounded by photographs of Massoud taken throughout out his life.

Massoud was killed on September 9, 2001 by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorists just two days before the 9/11 attacks. The front cover of the paper shows Massoud’s picture from the front, and Idema’s back standing guard in an Afghan village.

MUJAHADEEN NEWSPAPER CALLS FOR SHINWARI RESIGNATION

Voice of the Mujahadeen Quickly Establishing Itself as the Largest and Highest Circulation Paper in the Country-

AFGHAN NEWSPAPER DEMANDS RELEASE OF GREEN BERET
CALLS IDEMA NATIONAL MUJAHADEEN HERO ON
DAY AFTER ELECTION

(9/20/05) FULL TEXT of Article
Kabul, Afghanistan
(AINA/Kabul News)

Voice of the Mujahadeen, an independent newspaper published by the Massoud Hero Foundation, and the Mujahadeen and Martyrs Group has called for the immediate release of Idema and his team and called them national heroes. The paper contains secret letters to President Hamid Karzai, pictures of Idema rescuing Afghan children, and an expose of the terrorists that Idema’s team captured.

Idema was charged with entering the country illegally, torture of innocent Afghan civilians, and running a private jail. On September 15, 2004 he was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years by a former Taliban judge in the Afghan Intelligence Court, formally the Taliban National Security Court. Judge Abdul Basset Bakhtyari has been called a war criminal by the United Nations in a special report on the Afghan justice system and the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights has twice called for his resignation and arrest.

In December 2004 all of the Afghans arrested with Idema were found innocent by the Appeals Court in a new trial after documents surfaced proving that they were all Afghan government employees of the Ministry of Defence and Afghan CIA.

One lieutenant in the Afghan CIA refused to leave Idema’s side and has remained in prison with him since then. In February Idema and men were found innocent of entering the county illegally after the Appeals Court saw video of their passports being handed to Customs Officials and Border Police. Idema had been greeted at the diplomatic entrance by a large Afghan government entourage, which included the Chief of National Police in Kabul, and Karzai’s brother in the video.

In March 2004, the three Americans remaining in prison were found innocent of all charges after an undercover tape was played in which their accusers admitted there was no torture and that it was all a show for the press. A second tape was played with the terrorists discussing their plans to bomb Bagram Air base, the US airfield north of Kabul, and plotting to kill several national leaders. Idema and his men were still not released, allegedly because of US pressure to conceal the details of their operation and limit what the Bush Administration considered a public relations nightmare.

Today’s Voice of the Mujahadeen has a two page spread written in the Farsi language with information never before revealed about the case. It also features a prominent photo layout of Idema praying at National Hero Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud’s grave in the Panjshir surrounded by photographs of Massoud taken throughout out his life. Massoud was killed on September 9, 2001 by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorists just two days before the 9/11 attacks. The front cover of the paper shows Massoud’s picture from the front, and Idema’s back standing guard in an Afghan village. There are also several pages in English, apparently aimed at US and coalition security forces.

The Commander of the Kochi nation, who leads five thousand Nomad Mujahadeen has publicly offered his army to free Idema on the day after elections.

Generals from throughout the country, including Pashtun Commander Attiquallah Lodeen from Logar and Hazara General Toofan from Bamian, both who participated in the Parliamentary elections have called for Idema’s release.

A source in the Northern Alliance Ministry of Defence said that one dozen Panjshir commandos have been placed in close proximity to Idema. Some are former bodyguards of Commander Massoud and later served under Idema during the 2001/2002 war. No official comments are being made on the reason for this move.

(10/1/05) PARTIAL TEXT of Article
Kabul, Afghanistan
(AINA/Kabul News)

The latest issue of the Voice of the Mujahadeen, is now calling for the resignation of the highest Supreme Court justice in Afghanistan, Sheik Faiz Shinwari. The paper has also attacked NDS Judge Abdul Basset Bakhtyari calling him a war criminal and citing a United Nations special report on the Afghan justice system. The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights has twice called for Bakhtyari’s resignation and arrest.

This week’s edition of the paper not only republishes TOLO TV’s ten day long series of special reports, but reveals new information on corruption, bribes, and Taliban links inside the core of President Karzai’s pool of judges. With TOLO TV publishing the first expose of Taliban control of the Afghan justice system, Voice now follows up with detailed pictures, evidence, and allegations against the nation’s top judges.

Last week, the independent newspaper published by the Massoud Hero Foundation, and the Mujahadeen and Martyrs Group called for the immediate release of American Jack Idema and his Northern Alliance anti-terrorist team. In July 2004 “Mr. Jack” was charged with entering the country illegally, torturing innocent Afghan civilians, and running a private jail. The paper contained the text of secret American government letters to President Hamid Karzai and classified letters during the 2001 war. It also contained pictures of Idema rescuing Afghan children and a two-page story on the terrorists that Idema’s team captured. The Voice of the Mujahadeen called them “national heroes.”

Interestingly, these are a couple of the pictures and the story that the AP is leaving out of their accounts after happily reporting his arrest in 2004. What’s the matter with people these days–only two years ago the AP was fauning all over the heroic efforts of Jack Idema.

After a Taliban rocket attack on a village in Baglan Province in 2002 (TFD Team COBRA 22 was present) and the event was witnessed and confirmed by numerous people.

“Jack” an Advisor to the Northern Alliance resistance forces carries one of more than 300 children he rescued from perils ranging from
Taliban rockets to devastating earthquakes.

From AP and Wire Services

NAHRIN, Afghanistan (April 2, 2002) - Unable to send troops which are already stretched thin in the war against the Taliban, the US Army delivered supplies and food to the United Nations makeshift airfield in Nahrin. The earthquake has been one of the deadliest in decades, with casualty estimates reaching as high as 6,000 killed and 11,000 injured.

The UN led peacekeeping force, known as ISAF, or International Security Assistance Force, has deployed German field hospitals, along with six other countries. The problem remains- how to reach those injured and dying. Landslides, tremors, avalanches, and the constant threat of Taliban attacks have impeded rescue attempts and hamstrung UN relief efforts. Hundreds need urgent medical care, yet are unreachable by even the most skilled military forces.

On the rocky hilltops overlooking the earthquake-battered villages there were hundreds still hoping for help, still praying, and still untreated days after the powerful earthquake leveled the area.

Untreated, that is, until Jack showed up.

“Jack does house-calls,” said the American, who declined to give Associated Press his last name. Jack, would only admit that he is a Green Beret from Fayetteville, N.C., and former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces. He has been in Afghanistan for more than six months on a mission he won’t reveal. Afghan officials would only say he was a civilian adviser to the Northern Alliance military forces and interim government.

Associated Press

“Jack” an Advisor to the Northern Alliance resistance forces carries one of more than 300 children he rescued from perils ranging from
Taliban rockets to devastating earthquakes.

Coalition Forces may not be able to reach the injured, and German military forces had to turn back at the base of one mountain due to security concerns, but this American doesn’t seem to have a problem.

On Saturday, wearing a khaki-and-brown, U.S. flag patch on his shoulder, sporting a beard and carrying an assault rifle and pistols, Jack continued his own one-man mission to help those hurt in the quake that struck this area of northern Afghanistan a week ago - and in particular find all of its neglected victims: women and children.

He was bandaging more than 30 children by the afternoons and using up five boxes of field dressings a day- and quite a few happy-face bandages. He made it to the top of one area by horse, with three Afghan soldiers.

From MSGT Thomas R. Bumback:

Known Idema since 1978. I retired from SOCOM and served 35 years in the army, most in Special Forces. I would die for him. Almost have a few times because of his fuck you attitude. Almost 30 years and nothing has changed. He’s 50 years old and has been fighting and killing terrorists long before it was fashionable.

This is not a kid playing “mercenary” this is a highly trained, and highly experienced operator who got hung out to dry in the 80’s in Central America and came back to assist a revolution in the Soviet Union in 1991, then got hung out to dry again, then retired, then went back to war in 2001 and sacrified everything for his country. He spent a year in combat, longer than ANY operator in Afghanistan, and then he went back again and again, and when he finally found Mullah Omar and Hekmatyar, they hung him out to dry again. I would not have done it, but then again I am not him. Most people do not have a clue. I do. I was his intel sergeant in the 80’s. May he one day be recognized for what he is, a true American hero. Lets not forget the men who have stayed with him in prison VOLUNTARILY even after being released. Now what does that tell you about the man?

He once left me behind in 1982 on an operation because I had a wife and kids. He did not expect to return in one piece. He told me I was not needed, the truth was that he didn’t want me to get killed.

In 1980 I watched him knock out the son of the Surgeon General (I think it was the Surgeon General- been 25 years) because the snot nosed major had “insulted” his team commander and said his dad was going get him thrown out of the army. Believe me, he knocked the Major OUT. And the Major deserved it. If you think this is bullshit, check it out, his name was Terry, Luther Terry.

Someone once told me a story about how he rescued a dog from the street in San Salvador and almost got killed doing it. A dog.

The Associated Press called him every terrible thing possible in 2004, but they forgot to mention that they called him an American Hero in April 2002 for saving 300 women and children- SINGLE-HANDEDLY during an Afghan earthquake and Taliban attack. The Associated Press even published pictures of him rescuing both children and old women. They never told you about that when they wanted to sell papers in 2004 based on him being an accussed torturer.

What blows me away, is that Americans watch Jack Bauer (24) on TV every single week, and love it and cheer. When the real deal shows up you crap you pants. Well he’s the real version. The REAL deal.

He defends those that cannot defend themselves without concern for his safety, career, or life. He choses his country first, sacrifices all, and pays dearly. What do you say about someone like this? For more than a year bloggers have made me sick abusing the freedom of speech with lies, now one person stand up and stands fast.

May God bless you and your family Cao.

De Oppresso Liber,

Thomas R. Bumback
Master Sergeant
US Army Special Forces
(retired)

Your blog is great. Jack is innocent. I’ve been his friend for a long time, and been on this story for a long time. He didn’t commit wire fraud either. Jack is harsh, abrasive, hard to take sometimes, egotistical, full fo himself, suicidally brave, and fun. He is SF to the third power, and we’d be better off if we had a lot more like him.

Jim Morris

Here’s my virtual salute to RDX…

GuuattaD!

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