If you’re looking for pieces on Jack Idema and his team, please click on this link for the latest pieces at CB.

Imagine my surprise when the first post I put up about Jack here, people seemed to come out of the woodwork commenting about their dismay at Jack’s Idema’s situation in Afghanistan. Read them and it’ll break your heart. But read them anyway.

Here are a few to give you an idea.

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Actually, Cao, you might be the first person to be able to wade through the bullshit and publish the facts. They were terrorists, they got caught, Idema caught them, and then they lied. Like, here’s a good one: the terrorists were supposed to be hanging upside down in a basement. Problem was there was no basement in the house, I know, I sent a team there to photograph it. Nor has ONE piece of evidence ever been shown against them- Just anonymous sources who have all either dissapeared or been identified, and now fired.

Good job, keep it up, and never let them see you sweat.

Comment by Command Sergeant Major Donald

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You go get em ! Finally someone with the balls to start telling the real story. Sorta makes us have renewed faith in bloggers.

Drive on soldier, cause we are all on board the FREE JACK campaign!

And tell your critics to read the book: THEY JUST DON’T GET IT by a retired Colonel, David Hunt, that works for FOX News. Look at page #200, where he quotes an al-Qaida manual which states:

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“Missions Required of the Military Organization (al-Qaeda)”

The overthrow of the godless regimes and their replacement with an Islamic regime. Other missions consist of the following:

4. Freeing the brothers who are captured by the enemy.
5. Spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy.
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In plain language, terrorists not only have a reason to lie about their capture, treatment, and make up torture stories, they have a “God given” purpose and directive to do it. Wake up folks. Get a grip. Jack Idema should have killed them.

Afghanistan has a new head of Parliament (the man whose life Idema saved), and is getting a new government. And most of us actually in this battle cannot wait to see what the next few months hold.

You shouldn’t go by Cao, you should go by Tiger. Thanks for supporting the entire military, and most of all the dark operators who everyone always wants to slam as rogue, when maybe it really isn’t that black and white.

Comment by sfops2kabul

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There are many, that have borne the burden of this battle since 9/11 on their shoulders, giving all, getting nothing, and losing everything. Men like Jack Idema, after 9/11, when everyone wanted to go, but didn’t, bore the heaviest load, and sacrificed their families, and often their lives so that America could remain free and safe. So far, no attack, although many have been planned, has taken place on American soil since then.

Our nation owes their thanks, their security, and their very blood to men like Jack Idema and God forgive those bastards that don’t appreciate it, or are too stupid to see it. We should stand in awe of those that were on the front lines in the first days of the war when the Pentagon estimated that most would be wiped out to give the regular Army time prepare. Instead, they took the entire country over in 90 days. Jack Idema was on the forefront of that battle, and I know this for a fact. As does ANY general officer or commander in the Northern Alliance which fought and died by our side. Jack Idema might have done everything right, but he did a lot more right then the rest of the world. And you don’t hear him crying. From what I know, he spit blood in the face of the guys that were torturing him. Any doubts? Call the Red Cross in Kabul. They examined terrorists that had NO MARKS. When the finally saw Idema by accident while he was being moved to another area after 40 days, they asked him how he got so beat up and why his uniform was covered in blood and he told them to fuck off. He took the real beating and sucked it up. Cao, why don’t you contact Tristen at Kabul Red Cross, he told a dozen journalists about it at a bar in Kabul, and I was there and they thought I was a just a security guard for an NGO (pretty stupid assumption if you ever saw me). Not one journalist printed it. By the way, the Red Cross is not allowed to release that information, so you have to figure that this IRCC fellow must have been pretty upset. That’s a story that isn’t on the SuperPatriots.us website.

Thank you Cao, thank you.

Comment by NavSpecWarLNO

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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.

Comment by Jim Morris

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Too bad we didn’t have a whole army of Jack pitbulls out there, the fucking war would be over and we wouldn’t have 2,500 more Americans in Arlingon Cemetary.

Comment by Steven D.

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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)

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OOHHRRAAHH

It does my heart and soul good to see such Warriors in support of one of their own!

SSgt Yatahey
Former U.S. MARINE Forward Scout/Sniper
2 Tours Viet-Nam / 3rdMarDiv / 27thMarines

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we’ve known keith “jack” since he was 16…and his mom and dad too….we lived down the street….
you never need to doubt him and his intentions…he’s the best
keep blogging…we’re working here to free him too……….
you go girl!

Comment by louise tricard

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Flogging the Simian is another way to say white trash trailer tramp slumming loser in Romania makes up a thousand lies on a blog, and stupid people all over the world assume that this young penniless blowjob queen whore (see the latest news on his/its multiracial love triangle that got him/it beat up and thrown in a ditch) has the inside scoop on one of the biggest and most controversial cases in the War on Terror, more than 10,000 miles away in a country with little or no communications. Is there something wrong with this picture?

Hey Cao, SOJ is an American guy living in Romania (Cluj Napoca) who dedicated 100% of his time to blogging and who lives from donations from his readers. He signs as Soj and his blog - Flogging the Simian - was nomineed on the Southeastern Europe’s best blogs category at AFOE a while ago.

This is the problem with Blogs and and Bloggers that lie and falsify information and destroy lives. Jack Idema was one of them, billed as a criminal instead of a hero, by anti-american bloggers, who led the rest of the blogggers by the nose. If you want the real truth on those American heroes SOJ and most of the other bloggers have painted with fantasy and lies, then check out www.superpatriots.us - Proof with PICTURES NOT EMPTY WORDS. For how some blogs lie and decieve us for their own political agenda see: www.superpatriots.us/flogginfraud/index.htm Maybe its time all the blogs started printing the real story and helped these three Americans….

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