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Not EVERYONE lies, although I think it’s becoming a more commonplace than it was when I was a kid. I saw a study not too long ago that said that 75% of High School students admit they cheat on tests. Does this mean we’re entering into an era where lying is a matter of principle? Just business as usual? Nobody tells the George Washington cherry tree story anymore. The principles that were a part of this great nation not so long ago have become just a shimmering light in the distant past.

Let me pose this question: If you print someone else’s lie, are you culpable for its propagation? According to the United States Supreme Court, you are. In the case of Jack Idema, that’s what these journalists did.

Press Lie # 1-

Within hours after their arrest the press was claiming that “men were found hanging upside down in their compound.”

The truth is–this didn’t happen. Nobody was ever found tortured, hung upside down, or abused. There is no evidence to the contrary, never has been any.The lies sold stories. It fueled the feeding frenzy. Journalists smelled blood in the water. Just like the Abu Ghraib Koran flushing incident which IMO, should never have hit the airwaves. If someone had been hung from the ceiling or walls of their house, or any building in that compound, the roof and walls would have collapsed. Does anyone know anything about building construction in this area of the world? My son does, he’s an electrician who’s been working in Iraq for the past 2 years. He is appalled at what passes for electrical wiring. People have died from electrocution over there, just from turning on the light and taking a shower….something people over here take for granted.

FYI–Afghan mortar is barely sufficient to hang a picture, let alone a man’s weight. In fact, reporters paid NDS/FBI agents for tours of the house, no where was there ANY evidence of anyone ever hanging from anything. If there was, believe you me, you would have seen that picture on the front cover of Time and Newsweek by now. They would have stolen those images and published them and made all kinds of excuses for why they did it. The only things ever “hanging” in Jack’s compound were pictures of Commander Massoud in the living room.

Press Lie # 2-

New York Magazine: “Early press reports indicated that three prisoners found in Idema’s custody during the raid were blindfolded and beaten and strapped to the ceiling by their feet; five others were tied to chairs with rope in a small, dark room down a hall that was littered with bloodied clothing.”

Please, spare us the hyperbole. What Sullivan conveniently FAILS to mention is that those “Early press reports” were widely known to be false, and were known by her to be false BEFORE she printed that article. In other words, Sullivan couldn’t say that it was true, or fact, or proven at trial, or anything else, so she said “early press reports…” this way she could use blatantly false and horrible lies with impunity. No one ever said this at trial, the translation was wrong, and Jack and the crew have the trial tapes. As far as a hall “littered with bloody clothing” that one of the most outrageous lies ever told. Let’s assume this is true; can someone please explain why no terrorist, no person, has ever shown a single laceration, cut, abrasion, or any other verifiable injury to any one???? In fact, the only verifiable injuries have been to the men of TASK FORCE SABER 7 (check out the case section of the Superpats website) Even in the first days, no press agency or journalist ever printed any of this with a name attached to the source. It was always “a source that refused to be named.” That’s press lingo for; I can’t say this because I made it up, or at best, it’s a rumor, just to sell newspapers or magazines. Sickening when you think about it, criminal when you consider how it affected the lives and liberty of three innocent Americans and their families.

Press Lie # 3-

“…Arrested Innocent Afghans.”

The ‘innocent’ Afghans arrested by TASK FORCE SABER 7 were captured with explosives, detonators, fuses, bomb plans, maps of failed bomb attempt routes, terrorist recruitment paraphernalia, terrorist documents, weapons, ammunition, maps of ISAF compounds, Bagram Airbase, a Red Cross note from an al-Qaida leader in GITMO Cuba, a letter from Mullah Omar, and even newspapers with their previous attacks and killings circled and highlighted.

Yeah. What do you suppose the chances are of grabbing some dumb schlub who steps off a bus and he just happens to have a Red Cross note from an Al Qaeda leader in Gitmo Cuba in his pocket…and–oh, by the way– this leader just happens to turns out to be the guy’s brother?

Press Lie # 4-

Mariah Blake in the Columbia Journalism Review “article”:

“Many of Idema’s claims, such as the Iraq-al-Qaida connection, have since been discredited by the 9-11 Commission and UN Weapons inspectors…”

The truth is that NONE of Jack’s intelligence has EVER been discredited or disproven. For an example, Jack stated bin Laden was in TORA BORA and escaped in December 2001. The Chief of Taliban Intelligence which TF SABER 7 captured and turned over to TF 180 at Bagram in May 2004, also confirmed this, and of course, it was in the book THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN, based on Jack’s statements. Yet General Tommy Franks, like the press, has been denying this as recently as November 2004. However, on or about March 22nd, 2005, a FOIA request uncovered a document from GITMO in which a captured al-Qaida terrorist had admitted helping bin Laden escape from Tora Bora. This was widely reported in late March 2005– maybe the press should be apologizing to Jack for this too.

As to an Iraqi/bin Laden connection; the press loves to slam the President on this “mistake,” ignoring the bin Laden memo found in Iraq which personally invited bin Laden to Iraq to discuss ongoing coordination and support.

And lets not forget that several al-Qaida groups have operated in Northern Iraq since before the war in Iraq ever started.

Just listen to this ABC Clip from 1999…leftists have a short memory when they’re out to smear someone.

Ever hear of “ABLE DANGER”? There was something seriously wrong with the 9/11 Commission Report, which is why several Senators have asked for an investigation as to why the facts didn’t all come out. The facts didn’t all come out, in part, because they’d already made up their minds what the outcome would be–and they discounted any information that didn’t fit into that desired outcome.

It would seem there are certain bloggers who fit into that category, too, looking at certain facts in only one way to arrive at a derogatory conclusion.

In 1992, when Z1wahiri (Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda leader -right hand man to Bin Laden) met with Iraqi Intelligence agents over several days.

Between April 25 and May 1, 1998, two of Bin Laden’s military commanders, Mohammed Abu-Islam and Abdullah Qussim, visited Baghdad for discussions with Saddam Hussein’s son - Qusay Hussein - the “czar” of Iraqi Intelligence.

In mid-July, 1998, Bin Laden Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian co-founder of Al Qaeda, to Iraq to meet with senior Iraqi officials, including Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan.

Hahib Faris Abdullah al-Masouri, a general in the Iraqi Secret Services and a member of Iraqis M-8 Special Operations branch, met with September 11 pilot hijacker Mohammed Atta in Rome.

During the 1990’s, Sudan’s Sheikh Hassan al-Tourabi of the Islamic National Front arranged meetings between Bin Laden and Iraqi Intelligence officials. Bin Laden met with Faruq Al-Hijazi, and Iraqi intelligence agent in the Sudan who would later head Iraqi intelligence for Saddam Hussein.

Bin Laden again met with Iraqi intelligence officers in 1994 and 1995 in the Sudan.

Iraqi intelligence officials met with Bin Laden in Afghanistan several more times.

Following the December 1998 air strikes on Iraq, Saddam Hussein dispatched Faruq Hijazi to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in order to meet with Bin Laden and plot their revenge.

Qusay Hussein dispatched representatives to follow up with Bin Laden and obtain his firm commitment to exact revenge against the United States for the December 1998 bombing campaign.

According to Czech intelligence sources, on June 2, 2000, Mohammed Atta, a pilot and the operational leader of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks traveled to Prague to meet with other co-conspirators.

Upon information and belief, sometime between April 8-11, 2001, Atta left Florida again when he was a flight student, to again meet in Prague with Iraqi Intelligence agent Al-Ani.

Other intelligence reports indicate that Al-Ani met with another September 11 hijacker, Khalid Al Midhar as well.

Habib Faris Abdullah Al-Mamouri, a general in the Iraqi Secret Service, and a member of Iraq’s M-8 Special Operations branch, met with September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta in Rome, Hamburg and Prague.

According to US and foreign intelligence officials, in the Spring of 2000, Iraqi Intelligence agents met with September 11, 2001 hijackers Zaid Samir Jarrah and Marawan Al-Shehhi in Dubai, UAE in order to advance the hijacking of U.S. aircraft to commit terrorist acts.

Hey. How’m I doin’?

As to WMD, check this out at Frontpage Magazine, or these posts here at CB; here, here, here, here. Geez, you’d think some people would get a clue beyond stupid lies told by some penniless idiot sitting on his duff looking for stuff to write about in order to beg for money from his readers over there in Romania.

Regarding Jack’s interview on MSNBC stating that Iraq was providing support, equipment, and men to al-Qaida, Blake is obviously not well enough informed to know that there were many Iraqi’s captured in Afghanistan during the 2001 war. One of those IRAQI terrorists, named Bokan, was captured in the battle of Kunduz in November 2001. Bokan later escaped from Shebergan prison in Northern Afghanistan, was re-arrested when he tried to assassinate General Fahim, the Minister of Defence, and sent to Pulacharke with other Iraqi, Pakistani, Arab, and Chinese al-Qaida terrorists. Bokan led the assassination attempt on Jack and the other men on December 17, 2004 and was killed by Colonel Sherzaman in a gun battle protecting Jack. The Colonel was subsequently murdered by the other terrorists. The one Arab terrorist that survived, although severely wounded, admitted that it was an al-Qaida assassination plot, and that many Iraqi’s had been sent to Afghanistan to fight with bin Laden. So much for the accuracy of the 9/11 report.

Press Lie # 5-

Mariah Blake and her friend Stacy Sullivan, quote from CJR: “…but by billing him [Jack] as a government official, the media lent them credence.”

First, let us point out that the media NEVER billed Jack as a government official. In fact, Jack went to great efforts to make it clear that although he is a Green Beret, he was no longer on active-duty, nor assigned to the Special Forces troops in Afghanistan, he was with the Northern Alliance as a civilian military advisor to Massoud’s forces, and remains one. The exact NPR quote was “former” which was a word conveniently left out of the quote by Mariah Blake. Sullivan, in her vicious truth twisting style, stated in her NY Magazine article that Idema was turning up on TV, calling “himself a Green Beret” and “clearly implying he was on active duty.” Apparently Sullivan and Blake, who wrote their articles in concert, conveniently ignored their OWN picture used in NY Magazine (pg. 37) which clearly states, “RET” - that means RETIRED for all you stupid idiots out there.

Press Lie # 6-

“Idema wore a backward US Flag.”

Nobody but the most exceptionally ignorant journalist could express this lame observation. The “Stars and Stripes” always fly with the blue field facing into battle.

Press Lie # 7-

“Duped ISAF.”

ISAF worked closely with TF SABER 7 throughout the entire 2004 operation, this is well documented in video and photos, including photos in MAXIM and STUFF. In fact, not only did ISAF repeatedly congratulate Jack and his men in writing but the German Army EOD team even received an award for helping Jack. T F SABER 7 and ISAF worked together repeatedly and closely, until the FBI started complaining and then later when the press started writing about mythical torture. In fact, coalition forces are STILL working with TF SABER 7 covertly in various terrorist investigations.

Press Lie # 8-

“No connection to US Government.”

For 25 years, the Counterr Terrorist Group had been funded by the United States, DIA, CIA, Secret Service, FBI, National Park Service, BOP, and US Navy SEALs, US Special Operations, DEA, and US Missions to foreign countries, such as Haiti. Jack Idema has trained, worked for, and worked with more than 100 federal and foreign special operations, counter-terrorist, and HRT agencies and organizations. In fact, he even trained a US president’s son how to shoot a pistol.

Press Lie # 9-

“Idema had some special forces training.” And, “Idema was never a Green Beret.”

Jack Idema graduated the Special Forces Course in 1976, earning his Green Beret in 1975 (see the About The SuperPatriots page) and went to more than thirty Special Forces and Special Operations Courses, including teaching at the US Army Special Warfare Center (the Green Beret School) as Senior Instructor. We assure you this man is the real deal. The phony military slander that is on certain websites and stated by sources who can only wish and dream of having his credentials, then reported by outlets like Dallas Morning News, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Magazine, are complete fabrications and lies. Jack Idema has been fighting for America since he was 17 years old, and we have no doubt he will continue to do so.

A complete rebuttal with evidence is HERE.

Press Lie # 10-

State Department: “They got a fair trial.”

Oh, this is a good one. Suggest you visit the About the Case part of the Superpats site. Before you get there, ask yourself this: How does a Taliban Judge and a Taliban Prosecutor, preside over a trial of ANY American? Is there something wrong with this picture? We already know there is something wrong with this war.

Press Lie # 11-

State Department: “They are in good health.”

Oh, this one is like drinking gasoline. Just read the suit against Ambassador Khalilzad. The US Consul saw so many bruises, lacerations, and burns on Jack that she almost threw up. Jack of course, had no problem stripping for her and making sure she saw all the marks. Then she waited two weeks to send a doctor, ordered the report “modified” (Jack had two partially detached retinas from the concussions to his head and blows to his temples), then she (Sandra Ingram) said she would file a formal complaint, and instead told the Taliban guards who promptly handcuffed and beat Jack unconscious again when she left. These guys were burned, beaten, electrocuted, drugged, and beat with sticks and cables (metal whips the Taliban became famous for). The US Counsel and Ambassador knew all about it, and the FBI laughed about it.

Ever hear of Fallaqua? That’s the fine art of tying someone’s feet to a rod and beating the bottoms of your feet. It was a favorite torture technique of the Hussein brothers. What it does is–pulverizes and breaks the small bones in your feet and your feet end up swelling up like footballs. This is just one of the glorious physical treatments they were given before they were moved to Pulacharke; all with the full knowledge and consent of the FBI.

Press Lie # 12-

Columbia Journalism Review: “Idema received “at least one donation [in other words, an illegal donation] according to his bank records.” And, in New York Magazine: “… a letter from a North Carolina Postal Inspector, charging Idema with mail fraud…”

Total lies. These so-called “bank records” DO NOT exist. It is a complete fabrication and myth. Totally made up, never happened. If it did, Mariah Blake and Stacy Sullivan sure as hell would have printed the bank records, but they didn’t. Jack never took a dime from anyone in donations, and every dime he spent in the War On Terror and for humanitarian aid efforts and medical supplies for the Afghans was his OWN money. We bet this one is getting them sued post haste. The source for this, Chris Thompson, was already being sued by Jack because it was Thompson that was stealing money, and Thompson got caught doing it.

Press Lie # 13-

“Jack’s al-Qaida Tapes are fake.”

Lot’s of folks are trying to propagate this one. Coincidentally, most of these are the same folks already getting sued by Jack for interfering with his ownership of the al-Qaida 8mm VideoX Training Tapes. The tapes are the only known al-Qaida training tapes ever captured which give the world an inside look at not only al-Qaida tactics that are being used against the west, but also the identities of al-Qaida terrorists. Although very few actual al-Qaida faces have ever been shown to the world by Jack (see: CBS 60 Minutes - January 17, 2002), the fact is that American intelligence agencies were supplied with the full version and have been able to identify numerous terrorists as the result of Jack’s efforts, and that includes both the capture and termination of al-Qaida terrorists. Military personnel can determine the truth themselves in the military section and watch a video clip.

John, BB or RDX, you can correct me if I’m wrong–but if I’m not mistaken, every single one of the guys in that tape were arrested and detained.

Press Lie # 14-

New York Magazine: The CIA did voice analysis on the tapes and they were fake.

Total bullshit. The CIA never did any such thing. The CIA knew they were real because Jack gave them the tapes and they had confirmed identities of terrorists on the tapes which were not masked (these were the restricted 7 hours that Jack only gave to US, British-MI-6, and Australian SAS intelligence). If CJR and NY Magazine had a budget, instead of being fly-by-night operations, they would have hired a translator and confirmed the Arabic dialects on the tapes, which is what Dan Rather and CBS did before airing them. Blake and Sullivan’s unnamed “CIA source” was Joe Cafasso (see At FOX News, The Colonel Who Wasn’t,” New York Times article, 4/29/02, Jim Rutenberg) or my little piece here. Whoa, talk about using one of the worst, most tainted sources in the world- a guy who claimed to be a Colonel in Special Forces with three Silver Stars, and who served with Delta Force at DESERT ONE. Ha! Turns out Cafasso was a Private who served at Fort Dix, NJ for 44 days before being forcibly discharged for unsuitability for service. Great source Mariah and Stacy (by the way, both journalists knew this BEFORE they wrote their articles).

Interestingly enough, just recently, the CIA CONFIRMED with journalist Sherrie Gossett at Accuracy in Media that these statements by Blake and Sullivan, in Columbia Journalism Review and NY Magazine, were completely false.

Press Lie # 15-

New York Magazine, quoting Tracy Paul Warrington, “I was looking at seven hours of tape of something that al-Qaida doesn’t do.”

First, it is interesting to point out that Warrington was fired from CUBIX Defense Company for misuse of company email, among other related things, when Warrington accused Jack of conducting mortar attacks on civilians from mosques, and used company email to do it. Now lets look at the quote. Right about the same time he said this, al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists in Kabul kidnapped several UN personnel in the middle of Kabul city in an attack that was portrayed in Jack’s 8mm VideoX tapes exactly as it was practiced three years earlier. We could go on and on about this, but suffice it to say, Warrington, is not a former “Deputy Commander” of Special Forces, or of a “Special Forces counter-terrorism team” (Blake’s CJR article), nor has he ever seen the seven hours of tape– that is a lie, only the CIA, the DIA, and several other alphabet agencies have ever been given those highly restricted 7 hours by Jack, although most of it was shown to Dan Rather (CBS) and Eric Campbell (ABC) AFTER Jack got permission from a US Army PAO. Oh yeah, just for the record, Warrington, Stacy’s “expert,” has never even been to Afghanistan.

Press Lie # 16-

NY Magazine: Talking about wounded journalist Gary Scurka: “…Idema returned, trailing clouds of camera-ready military glory…’basically he was acting in front of the camera.’” But, “…Scurka finished still another documentary including no footage of Idema or his exploits.”

When Gary Scurka was wounded in November 2001, Tim Friend (Sullivan’s “source”) had helped put his Afghan scarf around one of Scurka’s legs. Medical care was hours away, and Scurka was losing massive amounts of blood. Jack and Greg Long took Scurka across the river, where JACK put Scurka in a Land Cruiser and did ALL of his medical work out of camera view. Jack took off the scarves, found three more unseen severe wounds, and administered antibiotic and Demerol injections, then jack stopped the bleeding with hemostats and Combat Trauma Dressings. But NOT BEFORE Jack told Scurka’s cameraman to “put the fucking camera down and hand me scissors and hemostats out of that bag [pointing to his medic bag].” THAT is one reason why you have not seen Jack’s efforts “on film,” although there is film of Jack there and evacuating Scurka, and Jack later asked Scurka NOT to air his face. There is more to this that cannot be released until after the trial of Ed Artis this June. Scurka confirmed all of this in a sworn statement under oath. Scurka also confirmed that Jack saved his life that day, NOT “Sir” Edward Artis, who was more than a hundred miles away when it happened, although, as Jack points out in THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN, it was Kevin Sites who pulled Scurka off the hill and was the hero that day. Read what Scurka said in the Fayetteville Observer when he returned home.

Press Lie # 17-

“Idema paid Caraballo to be his cameraman.”

Ed’s company has done previous relief video editing for Counterr Group for their humanitarian relief efforts in Afghanistan, as well as some video compression work for Idema’s National Press Club Award winning “The Colonel’s Story” (a prestigious award neither Sullivan or Blake have ever even been considered for). Caraballo also made a promotional tape for the book The Hunt For Bin Laden to be used by the publicity department at Random House, one of the largest publishers in America. Jack did not pay Caraballo to be a cameraman in Afghanistan. In fact, our sources (and they are pretty darn good sources) indicated Jack did not even want to bring him, or any journalist, and the Army asked him to bring three different journalists, all of which Jack turned down.

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Look. I didn’t hear anyone complaining or attacking Steven Vincent when he made the decision to go over to the Middle East on his own dime– much like Jack did because he knew this would be a fight for our very existence. So–what’s the matter, is the problem that Jack isn’t some high-falutin’ art critic turned journalist but instead is seasoned, highly trained professional warrior, cut from SF cloth? Get a grip, you pansies. And change your damned underwear.

Here’s my virtual salute to RDX:

GuuattaD!

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