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

Several things here. First, the NPR audio interview with Peter Bergen (above). Vellly intellesting!!! (But STOOPID), and I’ll tell you why. Second, the link to the Rolling Stone piece by Peter Bergen, and then a little commentary.

You can read Bergen’s article, here–it’s called “Jack Idema: Shadow Warrior” and it was published in Rolling Stone magazine

So we’re talking about the audio interview with him at the link above, from NPR, and then we’re talking about the article he wrote in Rolling Stone Magazine.

Just to let you know…Sidiq, the judge they refer to in the interview at NPR, is a high ranking member of the Taliban. He’s also a terrorist who has known ties to Gulbideen Hekmatyar (who is incidentally on the US Most Wanted Terrorist List), meets with Hekmatyar often, and recruits members for the Hezb-i-Islami Party–a known terrorist organization with a bloody history. Sidiq spent ten years in an Afghan prison for subversive activities against the pre-Taliban government. He was released by Mullah Omar (also on the US most wanted terrorist list). Both of Sidiq’s brothers “Malikyar” and Asarulhaq” are also terrorists working with Hekmatyar and Osama bin Laden. These two brothers were high ranking members of the Taliban and are currently members of the Taliban resistance. Sidiq and his two brothers were appointed to government positions in the new Afghan Government by the new President Karzai. Now doesn’t that tell you about the allegiances of the new President, Karzai?

Bergen’s comparison of Mohammad Sidiq to Judge Rehnquist in the NPR audio is simply absurd. A better comparison would be comparing Sidiq to Goebbels or Goehring. He’s a criminal and should be treated as such. These guys shouldn’t be appointed as part of the new government–that’s like allowing nazis to run in elections after WWII?? Those people were tried, convicted and executed for what they did, their crimes were broadcast around the world.

These men are no less criminals and they don’t deserve the red carpet rolled out for them by any stretch of the imagination.

Journalists are still telling stories replete with lies and it took this guy 9 months to put them all together!

Now I’m no Einstein, but I’ve been hot on this for how long now? I’ve read the Habeas Corpus, I’ve read many (but not all) of the legal documents having to do with this case, in addition to watching videos and reading countless websites and articles. How is it that all of this seems crystal clear to me and it’s not to the idiots reading the American commie Romanian wacking off the monkey site? Or to the media elite? GAWD I wish I knew about all of this a year ago.

I KNOW there are imbedded reporters who could do this story more justice….

Here’s a tape of Sidiq admitting that there was no torture. That’s right, folks, there’s a tape where the shamed ex-taliban judge admits there was not torture. This is courtesy of Superpatriots.us Be aware that after Jack talks, their accents are heavy and it might take a couple of tries before you realize that Zorro is speaking English.

Transcription:

Idema: But Americans think I hung him upside down.

Sidiq speaking in Arabic

Zoro translates: For the honor of my family and my driver, I can agree these people didn’t say anything. People stay alive for you, I can’t, you know that. But I agree with you because you didn’t do anything like this. But he says the main point, for example, between us an agreement, that would be very good.

End transcription

The quality of that tape wasn’t very good and although I played it back several times, I couldn’t get all of what Zoro said–there were skips in it. But you get the idea.

The interesting part of all of this is…and I’m not exactly sure of the chronology–Sidiq was also outed as a terrorist and his title of Mawlawi stripped from him by the Supreme Court and, unlike Jack, is not admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court. Jack, however, is now officially a lawyer in Afghanistan–which his attorney tells me is not a big deal. Mawlawi is an honorific title given to Islamic Scholars and Religious Leaders. It is one of the highest titles in Afghanistan bringing with it respect, admiration, and power. To lose the title is considered a disgrace to one’s life, and family. The court privately voiced its displeasure and disdain over learning that now “Mr.” Sidiq had a meeting with one of the world’s top terrorists, Gulbideen Hekmatyar, along with one of Sidiq’s brothers, Malikyar, the original terrorist Task Force Saber/7 was hunting.

Hekmatyar is best remembered for his bloody siege on Kabul and killing more than 20,000 civilians, women, and children with Russian Katucha rockets and tank shells. According to Peter Bergen, one of the world’s foremost authorities on terrorists, and author of HOLY WAR, INC based on his meeting with Osama bin Laden, Hekmatyar is an “ultra-Islamic Taliban” who once “slaughtered 36 men under the Command of Ahmad Shah Massoud… in July 1989,” and later killed “thousands of civilians in Kabul…” from 1992 onward (quoted from page 76, Holy War, Inc., courtesy of Peter Bergen).

Don’t hear much-excuse me-ANYTHING-NOT ONE SCINTILLA about any of this in the media. Bergen doesn’t seem to consider it’s of much consequence in his Rolling Stone Article, and it’s obvious he doesn’t take it very seriously–the man’s background–because in this audio interview at NPR, he compares Sidiq with our Judge Rehnquist, and this is what he says in the Rolling Stone piece:

I asked the judge why he thought his family had been targeted by Idema, to which he replied, “No clue.” When I asked him if I could meet with any of the other members of his family who had been abused by Idema, he became strangely evasive. Eventually he said that I could come to his home. Once there, he pointed out the bullet holes in the ceiling that Idema’s team had made the morning of the arrests. Siddiqullah then introduced me to his brother Malikyar, whom Idema had said is a terrorist. Siddiqullah told me that Malikyar had been tortured, that his rib was broken and that a cigarette was stubbed out on his hand. But Malikyar behaved in a weirdly hostile manner to me and refused to answer any questions about his treatment by Idema. Then Siddiqullah admitted in an aside that he himself was once affiliated with Hezbi-Islami, the party of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a one-time U.S. ally who has been branded one of the most wanted terrorists in Afghanistan. Now I was getting seriously confused, especially when I thought back to Siddiqullah’s earlier suggestion to me that, as far as he was concerned, the whole Idema case could have been resolved if his family were paid 900,000 Afghanis in compensation, about $20,000.

Seriously confused? What’s “seriously confusing” about this, Mr. Terrorism expert?

Note to JET: I, too have a problem with how Peter Bergen covered this after supposedly 9 months of investigative journalism. 9 months and he compares Sidiq to our (late) Judge Rehnquist. Has the media been so totally and utterly relentlessly brutal and malicious that those who support Jack’s innocence would look at the Rolling Stone piece as the best one yet? There were absolutely too many holes in this one…in addition to the portrayal of Jack as a criminal when there’s much more to the story than meets the eye.

this is a picture of idema finding the real explosives- not “traces” as reported in rolling stone. fyi—this is enough a1×2 to flip a car over the roof of the us embassy–if used correctly. this piece of a1×2 explosive is similar to semtex explosive except it’s incendiary and untraceable by bomb dogs. thanks to tf saber7, isaf and us mps at bagram were able to obtain 4 kilos of this explosive to train their bomb dogs. (there are videos of the bomb dogs at superpats, too.) prior to finding this explosive in serajan’s pillow, neither US or Coalition Forces had the ability to detect this special explosive which was designed for sabotage and terror attacks. A search of the house netted the team explosives, detonators, firing devices, ammunition, and IEDs inside pillows, rice bags, and mattresses. The French Foreign Legion, Netherlands EOD Teams, and Swedish Liaison officers all thanked Jack profusely.

Rolling Stone was given this information and it was conveniently forgotten. This thing has been stinking to high heaven since the guys were “found guilty” back in September of 2004. But is there any mention of the findings since then???

Superpatriots.us has several videos, a couple of which are the bomb sniffing dogs doing their thing. You should check it out.

The biggest problem I have with the Bergen piece is this.

Just weeks before Bergen’s article….

ALL FIVE Appeals Court judges

stated that these men

were completely innocent

yet-ROLLING STONE

FAILED TO PRINT THIS.

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