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The entire TASK FORCE SABER 7 Team was declared innocent of all charges by the Afghan Second Court, which had granted a trial de novo (a new trial) in November 2004. Closed hearings took place between December 2004 and March 2005. All men were originally ordered released by the Appeals Court based on new evidence and the decision was endorsed by the Supreme Court of Afghanistan.

Three American Prisoners of War
Found Innocent of All Charges

Idema, Bennett, and Caraballo were found innocent of all charges and Appeals Court Acting Chief Judge Saheb Noor along with Appeals Court Judges Abdul Latif (011-93-70287222- speaks English) and Chief Religious Judge Mawlawi Azizullah stated on the record during the closed hearing that there had been absolutely no evidence of torture and that the original two bomb suspects that gave statements against the team were in fact terrorists and had committed perjury in the first court hearing in July 2004. Three men were already released in December after being found innocent and in mid-March 2005 all men were pronounced NOT GUILTY in the controversial case of Jack Idema and six other men alleged to be hunting terrorists, including Osama bin Laden. The Court and the accused originally agreed to delay announcement for ten days to prepare a press conference and presentation of the evidence. This was stopped at the orders of Ambassador Khalilzad who is now Ambassador to Iraq.

We should be asking some serious questions as to how and why Americans held for charges they were declared innocent of–could have been subjected to horrible torture like this after their arrest.

Shortly after their [Jack and his team’s] arrest, they were subjected to varying degrees of torture and interrogation, apparently determined by rank. Jack Idema was repeatedly beaten by, and in the presence of- Amrullah at NDS Headquarters, as was Lieutenant Rasuli. A palace official was personally aware of and authorizing, at a minimum, Idema’s initial torture at NDS Headquarters by Amrullah, with FBI agents in close proximity and directing the interrogation.

During the following days and nights Idema was tortured with boiling water, starvation, threats of death, and assault with various implements (such as wire cables and rubber whips), resulting in broken ribs, a separated sternum, torn rotator cuffs, hemorrhaged eyes, multiple concussions, lacerations, contusions, and bruises. Although the U.S. Embassy later had medical reports indicating the extent of the torture, Sandra Ingram, Assistant U.S. Consul DOS Kabul, ordered the reports rewritten to tone down the extent of the injuries.

So while the ACLU is complaining about the detention of terrrorists’ wives involving absolutely no injury, and filing habeas corpus petitions on behalf of terrorists like Jose Padilla, counter terrorist experts Jack Idema and Brent Bennett along with Ed Caraballo who is a completely innocent journalist, are still being held because of the American government standing in the way of their release.

(Photo credit: AP) Condoleezza Rice shakes hands with Afghan President Hamid Karzai after a press conference at Claridges, London

Condi Rice had a meeting with Karzai, saying the American government is resolute in standing by them to continue to fight the Taleban and will not abandon the Afghans the way we did during their war with the Soviets. From yesterday’s article at VOA

The secretary promised there would be no repeat of the situation that followed the end of the Russian occupation of Afghanistan in 1989, when Western governments turned their attention elsewhere and the country was left to the Taleban and al-Qaida.

“The United States has a robust commitment to Afghanistan, militarily, politically, economically,” Rice said. “And we are going to continue that robust presence, because as long as the people of Afghanistan need American partnership, they’re going to have it. We made the mistake once before of leaving Afghanistan, and not only did Afghans pay for it, but Americans paid for it on September 11 [2001]. We’re not going to make that mistake again.”

Jack Idema and his men are still paying for it, and the question is WHY??? It is high time they were released.

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