This is the news that is travelling through Afghanistan. Reportedly, that’s what the stupid journalists are reporting….I’ll be watching CNN, etc., to see if they actually report the truth.

On Afghan television, they showed Jack and his men walking out of Pulacharke. How did they do that when they haven’t left Pulacharke and are still there? They must have showed some old footage.

The fact is, Ed Caraballo is now on his way home….

But Jack and his men were offered “amnesty” by Karzai and his Taliban loving government and they will not take it. Karzai has been giving ‘amnesty’ to terrorists, the Taliban and Al Qaeda, Jack and his men are innocent, they’re not terrorists, they’re not ‘mercenaries’ and they were declared innocent in a second trial - and ordered released.

This is a BS offer and they have not signed it. They are still at Pulacharke, except for Ed Caraballo, who is on his way home.

From AP:

KABUL, Afghanistan - An American jailed for two years in Afghanistan on charges of torturing alleged terrorists in a makeshift jail was freed two months early on Sunday after a government decree.

Edward Caraballo, 44, from New York, waved to reporters at Kabul’s international airport as he arrived in the back of a four-wheel drive vehicle accompanied by heavily armed American security personnel.

A U.S. Embassy official said an American consular officer accompanied Caraballo to the airport from the Pol-i-Charki prison, where he had been held since July 2004. He later caught a flight to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on his way back to the United States.

“I feel jubilant and happy. I am still worried that something could happen to me as I leave but I am optimistic that I will get home safely,” Caraballo told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his cell before his release.

He said he was freed two months early under a decree issued by the Afghan government for prisoners with less than 12 months left on their sentences.

The U.S. Embassy declined to comment.

Oh. I wonder why they would ‘decline to comment’.

ahhh this part is absolutely priceless:

He said he was freed two months early under a decree issued by the Afghan government for prisoners with less than 12 months left on their sentences.

The decree covers only robbery, rape and horrible crimes. If everyone was released under this decree, why was he the only one?

Even under his reduced sentence he has more than two months left on his sentence.

This is a spin to make the Americans look guilty.

Caraballo is a four-time Emmy award-winning journalist. That one is true. But listen to this one:

He has consistently denied being an active member of Idema’s group and said he believed he was chronicling a legitimate counterterrorism operation when he was arrested.

Love that. “Denied being an active member of Idema’s group”. See how they’re spinning this? “he believed he was chronicling a legitimate counterterrorism operation when he was arrested”.

Nice spin you got there, guys.

Here’s about the only factual statement I’ve seen on this thus far:

Caraballo alleges that American military officials facilitated his “embedding” with Idema’s team and helped make contacts with Afghan officials while in Afghanistan.

It appears to me as though the AP, Reuters and the rest are using Caraballo’s release to remind everyone about what a horrible criminal and con artist Jack Idema is, regardless of what the truth is. Disgusting.

From the Superpatriots’ website:

Details Are Sketchy: This is what we know- Four-time Emmy Award winning journalist Edward Caraballo was released Sunday afternoon, April 30. He was ordered released several days ago, packed up, and waiting for a ride to the airport when the US Embassy interceded and stopped the release. Over the next two days Afghan officials worked to free him, and finally ignored the US Ambassador’s demands to hold him. According to a top-ranking General in the Ministry of Justice, Caraballo walked out of Pulacharke Sunday around 3pm. The US Embassy then detained him and sent back to New York on the next plane out. Interestingly enough it comes just 4 days before a hearing in the US Federal Court in Washington on the rendition of the four men by the American FBI. There is little doubt that the US State Dept will use this to spin a defense that Caraballo’s release proves the US Govt. is not behind their illegal conviction. The press is reporting that it was Karzai’s early release order, but if you read that order it specifically excludes the crimes Caraballo was charged with. And, if it was Karzai’s early release order then why was Caraballo the ONLY prisoner released today? For those that say they were “convicted” in a “court of law,” just respond with this: No sworn witnesses, no evidence presented, only newspapers articles used as evidence against them, no cross-examination, a trial which was barely translated with always incorrect translation, the defense statement was stopped after ten minutes, both defense attorneys were threatened with arrest if they tried to present evidence of actual innocence or complain about the lack of legal rights, Afghan lawyers for Bennett and Banderas were threatened with arrest and death if they attempted to defend their clients, and only one person in the trial gave a statement under oath (on the Koran), and that was Jack Idema. Yet lawyers against Idema in US civil cases are saying they were convicted by a fair trial. We find that disgusting from anyone, no less “American” lawyers.

Sunday 6pm, Ariana National Television announces that all Americans were released and all the Afghans on Task Force Saber released with them.

Not true– here is what we know. Parliament had signed a release order for Task Force Saber, all of them, but Karzai required that Jack sign a similar Amnesty agreement as they had offered him three times before. Jack refused (imagine that). Then Parliament decided to just release them on Mujahadeen Day (April 28th), the day of Afghan Holy Warriors. The US Embassy promptly stepped in and started lodging “informal” objections to a declaration of innocence. Then the Ministry of Justice ordered them all released Sunday morning. So far it is only confirmed that Caraballo has left by airplane to Dubai. Meanwhile, everyone in Afghanistan thinks Jack has been released because by 7pm it was on every channel in Southwest Asia. Last we heard they were still at Pulacharke. This is going to get interesting. Especially since TOLO TV reported Jack at a local bar celebrating an hour ago.

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This post will probably be updated throughout the day. There is no telling what’s going to happen as time goes on in this goofy story.