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Brent Bennett is reportedly missing and not at Pulacharke. Hell, according to US Consul Edward P. Birsner, he’s not even in Afghanistan. So what happened? Who has him? And what’s to become of Idema, if he’s even still alive?

• What day was Bennett released and when did he sign an amnesty agreement?
• No one has seen the documents that, according to US Consul Ed Birsner, Brent Bennett signed.
• If these documents exist, why didn’t Birsner include them in his filing in response to their TRO?



• The big dogs (Karzai and Bush) meet, and immediately afterwards the Afghan army goes into Pulacharke, removing Bennett to an undisclosed location. Does this seem the least bid odd?
• Does this have something to do with Jack’s weekly Rogue Radio Live radio show on WAR Radio? He thoroughly blasts Karzai, among others, every single week on that show.
• Who do they really want now that Brent Bennett is now gone from the prison?
• Does the American government and Embassy think they’re not responsible when it was Bashir Mamoon, the translator and ‘assistant’ for Birsner who ordered Afghan officials to do this?
• Although all police and military have now been withdrawn, where is Brent Bennett now?
• These guys are registered as prisoners of war with the Red Cross, yet the Embassy claims Bennett flew home.
• The Afghan Ambassador in Washington DC said they were ‘political prisoners’, so how could this be?
• If they were ‘political prisoners’ and Ed Caraballo and Brent Bennett have now been released, why is Jack still there?
• Why is Bennett’s phone in the hands of someone who speaks English/Dari and doesn’t identify himself?
• What agency is after Jack Idema and what American governmental agency has Brent Bennett now?
• What condition is Brent Bennett in? Reports are that he was beat up pretty badly.
• Why did Bennett leave all his possessions behind if this was just a normal ’surrender’ and why did he leave the prison half-dressed?
• Can Bennett be deported or extradited from Afghanistan to somewhere else (presumably the United States) against his will- without having charges brought against him, or without signing an agreement?

Apparently the US Government does whatever the hell it wants to, regardless as to what the law reads.

“Freedom of Speech”, apparently is something that is only supported by legions of terrorist-appeasing lawyers.

They say “leave no man behind”. US Consul Birsner has forced them to leave Jack Idema behind. Ed Caraballo was released in April and flew home. Brent Bennett has disappeared, along with Birsner’s very lame explanation for the events that just took place, which seems to raise more questions than it answers, and even more suspicion as to the American government’s motives against Idema.

Who is responsible? There should be a Congressional Investigation, naming all those complicit. The US Consul be fired, members of the State Department questioned and punished, the DOJ should hold to the law and its own standards (like the habeas corpus petition that these guys filed over two years ago and was never answered), and the military should stand for its own instead of threatening court martials to anyone who lent a hand to these men.

The FBI and others should own up to what really happened here; innocent men have paid a terrible personal price for bureacratic stupidity when they thought they were going to war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and hunting Bin Laden. That’s simple enough, isn’t it? The President said in September of 2001, that all Americans were now soldiers in the War On Terror. He called upon each of us to do whatever we could to stop terror and save American lives. Jack Idema and his men have done that. But now it turns out they’re fighting their own government for rights in outdated documents like the US Constitution. Instead, we’ve got “international law” that doesn’t recognize your right to defend yourself, and that might well declare the war in Iraq illegal, and excuses Saddam Hussein for perpetrating genocide against his own citizens because they were his own citizens. The American Constitution, Bill of Rights and Federalist Papers apparently don’t apply to American citizens anymore; they’re just pieces of paper that belong in a museum as a testament to a bygone era when our rules and laws were enforced for the purpose of protecting our citizens. Now we have laws that protect the criminals and indict our citizens, and nobody seems to give a damn.

There doesn’t appear to be an “America” anymore, there certainly doesn’t seem to be an America that fights together to support American values, or protect our nation. Instead, we have people who are working against us, even writing stories that depict terrorists as victims, and encourage those who conspire to destroy us. The 9/11 attack on our soil doesn’t matter anymore. America is now fighting against itself; Idema and Bennett are just collateral damage.

Anyone sick of this yet? Well if you are, then go to one of the blogbursts and start ringing phones and writing letters and contacting the media (although I have little faith in them, consider Qana, Haditha, Abu Ghraib, Valerie Plame, Rathergate, etc.). Because if we don’t shake things up to the very foundation–to the very core of these peoples’ beings–then Jack Idema might well end up dead.

By the way, I don’t buy the crap that Idema is an ass. So if he’s ‘an ass’, does that mean we should turn our backs on a fellow American? I don’t care if you are an ass, you don’t deserve to die for stupidity, and that’s what all of this is.