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As of 11:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, Idema’s compound in Pulacharke is burning. Bennett has been taken by forces loyal to Karzai to the Al-Qaeda portion of the prison, where rumor has it and it is reasonable to presume he is being tortured.

Back in February, these men filed for a TRO and nothing happened. Upon orders of the US Consul, who I didn’t realize was a reigning political force in Afghanistan but apparently is, the Afghan national army is ‘to subdue Idema dead or alive’. Might this have something to do with the complaints and demands from a certain editor at Columbia University? It certainly is a possibility.

A few weeks ago, the Afghan Ambassador, Said Jawad, in Washington DC, claimed that Idema’s detention is a ‘political problem’ which can only be resolved by the US Embassy.

So now we know how the American Embassy in Afghanistan resolves ‘political problems’–the US Counsel orders their capture and or deaths after they’ve been declared innocent, Karzai’s army follows. Is this really the United States, or did I take a step back in time to Soviet Russia and the KGB?

In Afghanistan, the most important messages and letters between high powered officials are written in longhand if they are expected to be honored.

So tell me, you idiots who say that Jack is a fraud and all that other crap. Tell me he deserves to die….because that’s what may very well happened in short order after over 2 years of the US Government not responding to their habeas corpus petition, even while three republican senators are arguing about Geneva Convention rights for terrorists. Anyone else see something wrong with this picture, or is it perfectly okay for Americans being held illegally in a foreign land which signed agreements to uphold our laws to be killed on top of it all?

And for what reason? For politics? Because the Americans struck up a secret deal with the Taliban and switched the rules of the game after we’d already won? And now, years later, we’re supposed to just ‘fohgeddaboudid’ and ‘give peace a chance’?

Notice Newsweek’s headlines across the world…except in America where the journalists are making sure they don’t tell that same story.

Americans’ rights are being ignored to the point where they might well die at the hands of forces ordered by the US Consul of the American Embassy in Afghanistan…an entity which is supposed to protect the Geneva Conventions and the rights of American citizens. This entity has ordered their captures and/or deaths!

Will update when I find out more.

______Idema Quote a few hours ago______

“This is it, Karzai and the US has finally ordered them to use weapons against us, the new General Sadiqi , has said that he was given orders to shoot to kill if we resisted. We may not make it through the night. if not, bye. At least you know what finally went down. They are going to cut all the phones off in this area soon if they do come in. My block is on fire, surrounded, and they already got brent, I will hold out to the end.

goodbye friends,
Jack”

Thursday, Washington, DC 3:38PM
United States Federal Judge Orders government to respond in Court by 12 NOON Friday and answer for siege on Americans in Afghanistan, assaults against Captain Brent Bennett, and an attempt to murder former US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema

Update:

From Rotty Pup: Jack And Brent Are In Serious Trouble

While two-faced, Taliban-appeasing Afghan President Karzai spends a week in the U.S. lecturing everyone on how to deal with terrorism, back in Afghanistan, Jack Idema and Brent Bennett are fighting for their lives:

As of 11:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time [Thursday], Idema’s compound in Pulacharke is burning. Bennett has been taken by forces loyal to Karzai to the Al-Qaeda portion of the prison, where rumor has it and it is reasonable to presume he is being tortured.

Well, yes, we have been here before — Jack and Brent have survived more than a dozen assassination attempts in the past. This time, however, they’re under direct attack from forces loyal to Karzai, who have already captured Brent and handed him over to Al-Qaeda prisoners in their section of the prison.

Before his communications were cut-off, Jack Idema had the following to say late Thursday:

“This is it, Karzai and the US has finally ordered them to use weapons against us, the new General Sadiqi, has said that he was given orders to shoot to kill if we resisted. We may not make it through the night. if not, bye. At least you know what finally went down. They are going to cut all the phones off in this area soon if they do come in. My block is on fire, surrounded, and they already got Brent, I will hold out to the end.
goodbye friends,
Jack”

This does not look good, not good at all.