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Americans have to ask themselves why we are giving the Karzai government money; why are we supporting Karzai at all? Americans have to ask Congress and the Senate to start an investigation, and Americans have to start looking at not just Iraq, but Afghanistan before American bodybags there start reaching to the same level as in Iraq. We CANNOT afford another Vietnam of failed policy, appeasement, and backing the WRONG president. Ask for a Congressional and Senate investigation of Karzai now.

Below, is a letter from Jack Idema’s 85-year-old father to the Afghan Ambassador and Afghan government, which is even more disturbing. All officials have refused to answer the letter of Idema’s father. The Afghan Embassy will not even admit recieving it.

Americans Can make a difference. Write your letter, call your representative. The full list of addresses and fax numbers is on the attached letter. The Karzai government has already arrested several journalists and threatens to arrest any journalist or station in Afghanistan which continues coverage of the Jack Idema case. Is this the freedom our soldiers paid for with their blood?
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December 2, 2005
H.E. Said Tayeb JA WAD
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington
2341 Wyoming Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008

Dear Ambassador Jawad,

I write you today, faced with the news that our country, through its kindness and naivety, is giving your Taliban Terrorist controlled government more than FIVE BILLION dollars in aid. FIVE BILLION dollars so that Hamid Karzai can continue to torture and imprison innocent Americans, appoint former Taliban leaders that murdered American soldiers during the liberation of Afghanistan, appoint Taliban Terrorist judges to run your courts, and engage in lhuman rights abuses from the starvation of his people to the torture of Afghan and American prisoners in secret torture chambers such as the one located in Kabul and run by Armullah Saleh, using American money to electrocute, beat, and murder people (including Americans).

My son is a prisoner of war at Pulacharke prison and I have now been told that:

- more than 2,000 prisoners there have been without power;
- without any form of electricity for 47 days;
- without running water for more than one year;
- without drinking water for more than one year;
- without any food but old rice and bread for more than 60 days; and
- that the Red Cross is stealing and selling American donated blankets and clothes at the local bazaars instead of giving them to dying and sick prisoners.

During World War II, I fought as a U.S. Marine against the oppressive criminal murdering Japanese in the Pacific theater of war. We killed them as fast as we could, and after the Bataan Death March which started on April 10, 1942, the slaughter and execution of our soldiers in the Philippines, and the torture and murder of U.S. Marines by the Japenese, we finally dropped nuclear weapons on them, and they rightly deserved it. Your Karzai Taliban government is a fraud upon the American people. Unfortunately, at 85 years old, I am too old and sick to fly to Afghanistan and fight you myself for what you are doing to my son and the other Americans there while your terrorist president takes our money and lies to our face.

If the human rights abuses against my son continue, and you do not immediately restore electricity, water and food to the Pulcharke Prisoner of War camp within 72 hours, I am directing my attorneys to sue your government to stop the aid package from being sent form American taxpayers to Afghanistan to be used for terrorist activities by a pro-Taliban Karzai government.

And American officials are complicit in illegal activities, too. US Consul Adrianne Harchick has refused to deliver mail and relief parcels to prisoners, including American holiday parcels, claiming they violate the Muslim religion (Thanksgiving and Christmas).

US Ambassador Zalmay Khalizad has engaged in a wide range of anti-Christian activities, now continued by his replacement, even denying Christmas mail for the second year in a row.

There are also allegations that US Consul Harchick either suggested, demanded, or actually bribed, Ministry of Energy officials to deny electricity to Pulacharke Prison and the Ministry of Justice with the full knowledge of Hamid Karzai. It is alleged that a relative of Karzai was paid a bribe by a construction company in the Pulcharke area to divert electricity so it could be used for the profit of western construction companies. If true, this is a disturbing human rights abuse equal to the Japanese death camps of WWII. Just as upsetting is that I have been told that Karzai’s Minister of Finance REFUSED to provide the Ministry of Justice with money to repair electricity and buy generators so that “Taliban Punishment” could be imposed on prisoners at Pulcharke.

What kind of sick twisted government is Hamad Karzai running? Stop your torture and abuse of Americans and Afghans now, or answer in court for your actions,

s/

H. John Idema

I am also requesting formal complaints and diplomatic objections by American government and United Nations to the conditions at Pulacharke and all Afghan Prisons, especially the FBI and US Department of Justice funded torture chamber at “Saderat” in Kabul and run by Karzai and American Saleh. And that the UN investigates War Crimes by Saleh and his US FBI counterparts.

Copies by facsimile to:

US Ambassador Ronald Neuman
6180 Kabul Place
Dulles, VA 20189-6180
FAX: (301) 560-5729

Embassy of Afghanistan
2341 Wyoming Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Fax: (202) 483-6488

Mr. Jahed Hamrah, Consul General
Consulate of Afghanistan in New York
360 Lexington Avenue, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Fax: (212) 972-9046

Chairman Peter Hockstra
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
H-405, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515-6415;
Fax: (202) 225-1991

Jack Idema

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