12/6/2005
Jack from Pulacharke Prison
If you’re looking for pieces on Jack Idema and his team, please click on this link.
This guy tells it like it is, and I can’t help but laugh when I read some of it. If you are weak-kneed, if you don’t appreciate foul language or are faint of heart–do not read this post.
You can also read this over at the Superpatriots.us website.
my name is jack idema, i’ve hated jonathan since i was three and could pronounce it. i never really liked “keith” either. my friends call me jack, and my enemies call me every name in the book, and then some. bin laden and hekmatyar and every al-qaida and taliban terrorist in the world call me some things i’m not allowed to write here- because my goal is to bring this war to them all over the world– wherever they may hide, sleep, or cower. this is a war, this ain’t Sunday School folks. Do you want another few thousand Americans diving out windows in flames from 110 stories above the streets of New York?
I am a Green Beret, not a candy striper, or a wannabe, or some fake drunk at a bar claiming all his missions were classified and he has to kill you if he talks about it. I’ve come close to killing bin Laden twice, and found him five times, and that makes me better at this than the FBI, and a lot of other people. This is why the FBI hates me, and my guys, because they are the Federal Bureau of Investigation and we are a storm of interdiction. We stop the bastards before they kill more Americans– we don’t show up afterwards with blue windbreakers and forensic squads hoping to identify the bodies. I get close to bin Laden because I live and work with the Northern Alliance Afghans and I’m not afraid to ride straight into hell with a few guys and a lot of bullets. And this isn’t bullshit, and I’ve got the pictures and evidence to prove it, so one day you will be seeing that too.
You can’t fight terrorists with law enforcement and prosecution, Clinton tried that for eight years. You can’t do it, they are animals– they are not human, just ask the families that lost their loved ones on 9/11. When the terrorists capture us they cut off our heads on television. When we capture them they complain that we don’t let them piss for twelve hours. Well, sorry about that motherfucker, you were about to drive explosive rigged gas tankers into Bagram and kill 500 American soldiers in a ball of flames. You should be glad I didn’t defenestrate you. I believe that real Americans want real counter-terrorist operations, not bullshit press junkets and canned PR stories from PAOs that shot a gun once in their life on the basic training qualification range. I didn’t start this fucking war, not the one with bin laden, nor the one with the press, they started it, but I will finish it, or die in the process.
This page really ought to be called Jack Fights Back. After nine months of vitriolic (our favorite word now) lies by the press and these jerk-offs at Flogging the Simian, after attacks on our families by the press and the FBI, after repeated physical attacks on us by Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists trying to collect Bin Laden’s reward on me, and after attacks by every two-bit conman fraud “author” and “journalist” trying to make a buck off our story and our misery, I am finally speaking out. Not through some fleabag wannabe journalist, but through this website with my own words. I was lucky enough to get a chance to speak directly to the public for the first time, on a live radio show in Fayetteville, North Carolina, home of the 82nd Airborne Division and the US Army Special Forces, along with most of the other Special Ops units I have been part of or affiliated with, or had the honor of working with over the past 30 years.
the show was hosted by chris chaos and his partner lindsey. i can’t thank them enough for the opportunity to speak for myself, unfiltered, unfettered, unabridged, and most of all, un-spun. it was the only time i have ever agreed to a taped or on-camera interview (other than our in-court statements during two trial hearings). dozens of “journalists” have asked, written, and shown up at Pulacharke Prison with cameras only to be sent away by us. I did this one interview because it is my home, and because of the recent attacks on my wife. She was arrested in her pajamas by the US Marshals, at the behest of the FBI, on a phony warrant (and released hours later with a pitiful apology). She has been threatened and interrogated by the FBI (seems they are working more for Osama bin Laden than against him) and she has been assaulted, threatened, and harassed by a variety of press, pseudo-press, and private parties. She has been stalked, had sugar put in her gas tank, assaulted in the dead of night, and been slandered to inth degree by the scumbags at Flogging (they also threatened her in writing), and so many other make believe “journalists.” No one has gotten her story right, my story right, our story right, or any story related to this right. Most have outright lied intentionally.
so now, i am fighting back. This website is just the beginning. Next will come lawsuits, civil and criminal complaints, and pure unadulterated vendetta. [*]
Get ready folks because it is coming. Like the War on Terror, some of it you will read about here, some you will hear about on the front pages of your local papers, and some you will never hear about. But believe me when I tell you, a whirlwind is coming and hell is coming with it, for our enemies, and the enemies of America. This is my Holy War. And no enemy will survive unscathed. [**]
Let the Dice Fly High…..
And fuck any of you that try to stop me….
I’m a Green Beret, Get over it…
Courage Forward, &
God Bless America,
Jack
PS: I’m sitting in our 30×30 living room with hand carved sofas for twenty guests, and thirty steel padded chairs for low-level soldiers and bodyguards, drinking Tuborg, Fosters, Vodka, and Heineken (Brent is - since I hate Heineken). We have a laptop, a phone, private bedroom, private bathroom, two houseboys, one water boy, satellite TV with the Playboy Channel, two DVD Players (our friends from Bagram Airbase just brought us another 100 DVDs), two VCRs a huge TV, and a gym. Commander Massoud’s picture is on every wall. And we are still tracking bin Laden and Hekmatyar even from in here. So fuck Khalilzad, Karzai, and their and Taliban buddies.
PPS: May 10, 2005- I guess Khalilzad read our website, because the bastard arranged for the release of hundreds of terrorists this week. Two America’s most wanted terrorists were granted amnesty today (Hekmatyar and Mullah Omar) and the Taliban Minister of Foreign Affairs is now walking around Kabul free after having killed tens of thousands. Meanwhile, no one remembers all the Green Berets that died here over the last three years. So, the terrorists we all captured in 2001 did just two years in jail, and Caraballo gets that much time for taking a picture of me (that’s all he was EVER accused of- taking pictures) arresting Bin Laden’s adopted son-in-law. This is some twisted world and our government is more fucked up than I originally thought.
Cao’s note 11/13/2005: With Jack and his men in prison–our best weapon against the Taliban and Al Qaeda and bin Laden himself–you just have to wonder what the hell the American government and the State Department are accomplishing in the long run by switching sides like this.
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December 6th, 2005 at 6:32 am
I hope these guys can hang on. I had 20# of food and medical aid sent back. Resending it. The consulate apparently will not deliver IN AFGHANISTAN. Hello, what is your job?
December 6th, 2005 at 6:51 am
I need good information on where to send it..there are conflicting addresses at Superpatriots’ website. I’d like to do a post about it. I’d like to flood them with mail.
December 6th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
Holy cow! I agree with him. You write so well, and so does SuperPatriot. You know so much more than I, but I shall write something!
I would like to apologize for last week. I fell asleep as I was thinking of what to write, and I woke up too late. It was Thursday.
I’ve been trying to catch up, but I am so far behind it isn’t funny!
I sure hope he and his men are alright. Have a good day.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:54 pm
Jack I sent a bunch of Cipro and food over and had it returned. Our embassy sucks and so does the red cross if they’re not addressing this problem. Please tell me what you guys need besides the meds I tried to send.
RGray77712@aol.com
December 7th, 2005 at 6:48 pm
What’s the deal with Jack Idema? Everything I’ve heard is contrary to this…stuff.
What is his Q course date. What active teams was he on?
Why do so many active SF soldier say he’s not real?
Was he working for the US while in Afghanistan?
I don’t know jack but I was in Afghanistan with SF and he’s going to have to show more than this for my to buy his story.
December 7th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
I guess you haven’t been around this site for very long.
First–he’s “retired” SF, he’s not current. He has worked with current SF folks, but during this last stint in Afghanistan-it was always capacity of working as a civilian advisor to the Northern Alliance. Liaison between the Afghans and the US Government.
I have a blockbuster piece that I’m still putting together that should be up in the next few days or so…
But read the comments on this post, read this, and this. Read the interview I did with Jim Morris.
Or you can just peruse all the articles that are here so far on Jack. Some of them are regarding Afghanistan, some are from SF Operators who know him like this post or this post. I’m nowhere near done with this subject–there is still a lot to cover.
Read the interview of him with Mike Levine Part I, Part II.
Basically, the media has done a terrible story of covering what happened as far as Jack Idema is concerned–and I would strongly suggest that you look at some of this information…because as Dan in Iraq says:
Doesn’t sound to me like this guy is just some “radio operator”.
He has a whole lot more to say about it in his description of what a Green Beret is and the fact that Green Berets use that word because it’s an AWARD that doesn’t go away- even if they’re retired military. You can be SF (retired) and still be a Green Beret and I think that’s where some of the civilian problems are with the description–they just don’t understand the military at all.
And that’s just ONE GUY. There are plenty more.
Go to the Superpatriots site and get into the military only section. It should give you more intel over there than I can share here…and it should answer your questions about current SF Ops he has worked with.
December 7th, 2005 at 7:34 pm
Here are some of the support that’s come from Special Forces, the first from the guy who sent a team in to take pictures of Jack’s Safehouse:
Actually, Cao, you might be the first person to be able to wade through the ******** 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
*****
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:
———–
“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.
—————-
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
******
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 ******** 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 **** 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
*****
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
*****
Too bad we didn’t have a whole army of Jack pitbulls out there, the ******* war would be over and we wouldn’t have 2,500 more Americans in Arlingon Cemetary.
Comment by Steven D.
*****
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 **** 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 ********, 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 **** 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)
*****
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
*****
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
*****
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 ******* queen ***** (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 http://www.superpatriots.us - Proof with PICTURES NOT EMPTY WORDS. For how some blogs lie and decieve us for their own political agenda see: http://www.superpatriots.us/flogginfraud/index.htm Maybe its time all the blogs started printing the real story and helped these three Americans….
Comment by Alan G
January 4th, 2006 at 2:32 am
[…] Jack from Pulacharke Prison […]
January 20th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
[…] More general words, eh? Like what? ‘Gulags’? ‘CIA flights’? ‘Abu Gharib’? ‘America is the Great Satan and must be destroyed’? Because, you know, it really is beginning to look as though the people who whine endlessly about an Islamonazi getting to see the world from the back of a CIA plane have absolutely no reaction at all to the very real torture and imprisonment of an American hero. Why might that be? Hmm? My friends call me Jack, and my enemies call me every name in the book, and then some. Bin Laden and Hekmatyar and every al-Qaida and Taliban terrorist in the world call me some things I’m not allowed to write here- because my goal is to bring this war to them all over the world– wherever they may hide, sleep, or cower. This is a war, this ain’t Sunday School folks. Do you want another few thousand Americans diving out windows in flames from 110 stories above the streets of New York? […] You can’t fight terrorists with law enforcement and prosecution, Clinton tried that for eight years. You can’t do it, they are animals– they are not human, just ask the families that lost their loved ones on 9/11. When the terrorists capture us they cut off our heads on television. When we capture them they complain that we don’t let them piss for twelve hours. Well, sorry about that motherfucker, you were about to drive explosive rigged gas tankers into Bagram and kill 500 American soldiers in a ball of flames. You should be glad I didn’t defenestrate you. I believe that real Americans want real counter-terrorist operations, not ******** press junkets and canned PR stories from PAOs that shot a gun once in their life on the basic training qualification range. I didn’t start this ******* war, not the one with bin laden, nor the one with the press, they started it, but I will finish it, or die in the process. […]
August 16th, 2006 at 4:37 am
[…] Contrast this with the solution Jack Idema proposes: I believe that real Americans want real counter-terrorist operations, not bullsh*t press junkets and canned PR stories from PAOs that shot a gun once in their life on the basic training qualification range. I didn’t start this f*cking war, not the one with bin laden, nor the one with the press, they started it, but I will finish it, or die in the process. […]