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Several things here. First, the NPR audio interview with Peter Bergen (above). Vellly intellesting!!! (But STOOPID), and I’ll tell you why. Second, the link to the Rolling Stone piece by Peter Bergen, and then a little commentary.

You can read Bergen’s article, here–it’s called “Jack Idema: Shadow Warrior” and it was published in Rolling Stone magazine

So we’re talking about the audio interview with him at the link above, from NPR, and then we’re talking about the article he wrote in Rolling Stone Magazine.

Just to let you know…Sidiq, the judge they refer to in the interview at NPR, is a high ranking member of the Taliban. He’s also a terrorist who has known ties to Gulbideen Hekmatyar (who is incidentally on the US Most Wanted Terrorist List), meets with Hekmatyar often, and recruits members for the Hezb-i-Islami Party–a known terrorist organization with a bloody history. Sidiq spent ten years in an Afghan prison for subversive activities against the pre-Taliban government. He was released by Mullah Omar (also on the US most wanted terrorist list). Both of Sidiq’s brothers “Malikyar” and Asarulhaq” are also terrorists working with Hekmatyar and Osama bin Laden. These two brothers were high ranking members of the Taliban and are currently members of the Taliban resistance. Sidiq and his two brothers were appointed to government positions in the new Afghan Government by the new President Karzai. Now doesn’t that tell you about the allegiances of the new President, Karzai?

Bergen’s comparison of Mohammad Sidiq to Judge Rehnquist in the NPR audio is simply absurd. A better comparison would be comparing Sidiq to Goebbels or Goehring. He’s a criminal and should be treated as such. These guys shouldn’t be appointed as part of the new government–that’s like allowing nazis to run in elections after WWII?? Those people were tried, convicted and executed for what they did, their crimes were broadcast around the world.

These men are no less criminals and they don’t deserve the red carpet rolled out for them by any stretch of the imagination.

Journalists are still telling stories replete with lies and it took this guy 9 months to put them all together!

Now I’m no Einstein, but I’ve been hot on this for how long now? I’ve read the Habeas Corpus, I’ve read many (but not all) of the legal documents having to do with this case, in addition to watching videos and reading countless websites and articles. How is it that all of this seems crystal clear to me and it’s not to the idiots reading the American commie Romanian wacking off the monkey site? Or to the media elite? GAWD I wish I knew about all of this a year ago.

I KNOW there are imbedded reporters who could do this story more justice….

Here’s a tape of Sidiq admitting that there was no torture. That’s right, folks, there’s a tape where the shamed ex-taliban judge admits there was not torture. This is courtesy of Superpatriots.us Be aware that after Jack talks, their accents are heavy and it might take a couple of tries before you realize that Zorro is speaking English.

Transcription:

Idema: But Americans think I hung him upside down.

Sidiq speaking in Arabic

Zoro translates: For the honor of my family and my driver, I can agree these people didn’t say anything. People stay alive for you, I can’t, you know that. But I agree with you because you didn’t do anything like this. But he says the main point, for example, between us an agreement, that would be very good.

End transcription

The quality of that tape wasn’t very good and although I played it back several times, I couldn’t get all of what Zoro said–there were skips in it. But you get the idea.

The interesting part of all of this is…and I’m not exactly sure of the chronology–Sidiq was also outed as a terrorist and his title of Mawlawi stripped from him by the Supreme Court and, unlike Jack, is not admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court. Jack, however, is now officially a lawyer in Afghanistan–which his attorney tells me is not a big deal. Mawlawi is an honorific title given to Islamic Scholars and Religious Leaders. It is one of the highest titles in Afghanistan bringing with it respect, admiration, and power. To lose the title is considered a disgrace to one’s life, and family. The court privately voiced its displeasure and disdain over learning that now “Mr.” Sidiq had a meeting with one of the world’s top terrorists, Gulbideen Hekmatyar, along with one of Sidiq’s brothers, Malikyar, the original terrorist Task Force Saber/7 was hunting.

Hekmatyar is best remembered for his bloody siege on Kabul and killing more than 20,000 civilians, women, and children with Russian Katucha rockets and tank shells. According to Peter Bergen, one of the world’s foremost authorities on terrorists, and author of HOLY WAR, INC based on his meeting with Osama bin Laden, Hekmatyar is an “ultra-Islamic Taliban” who once “slaughtered 36 men under the Command of Ahmad Shah Massoud… in July 1989,” and later killed “thousands of civilians in Kabul…” from 1992 onward (quoted from page 76, Holy War, Inc., courtesy of Peter Bergen).

Don’t hear much-excuse me-ANYTHING-NOT ONE SCINTILLA about any of this in the media. Bergen doesn’t seem to consider it’s of much consequence in his Rolling Stone Article, and it’s obvious he doesn’t take it very seriously–the man’s background–because in this audio interview at NPR, he compares Sidiq with our Judge Rehnquist, and this is what he says in the Rolling Stone piece:

I asked the judge why he thought his family had been targeted by Idema, to which he replied, “No clue.” When I asked him if I could meet with any of the other members of his family who had been abused by Idema, he became strangely evasive. Eventually he said that I could come to his home. Once there, he pointed out the bullet holes in the ceiling that Idema’s team had made the morning of the arrests. Siddiqullah then introduced me to his brother Malikyar, whom Idema had said is a terrorist. Siddiqullah told me that Malikyar had been tortured, that his rib was broken and that a cigarette was stubbed out on his hand. But Malikyar behaved in a weirdly hostile manner to me and refused to answer any questions about his treatment by Idema. Then Siddiqullah admitted in an aside that he himself was once affiliated with Hezbi-Islami, the party of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a one-time U.S. ally who has been branded one of the most wanted terrorists in Afghanistan. Now I was getting seriously confused, especially when I thought back to Siddiqullah’s earlier suggestion to me that, as far as he was concerned, the whole Idema case could have been resolved if his family were paid 900,000 Afghanis in compensation, about $20,000.

Seriously confused? What’s “seriously confusing” about this, Mr. Terrorism expert?

Note to JET: I, too have a problem with how Peter Bergen covered this after supposedly 9 months of investigative journalism. 9 months and he compares Sidiq to our (late) Judge Rehnquist. Has the media been so totally and utterly relentlessly brutal and malicious that those who support Jack’s innocence would look at the Rolling Stone piece as the best one yet? There were absolutely too many holes in this one…in addition to the portrayal of Jack as a criminal when there’s much more to the story than meets the eye.

this is a picture of idema finding the real explosives- not “traces” as reported in rolling stone. fyi—this is enough a1×2 to flip a car over the roof of the us embassy–if used correctly. this piece of a1×2 explosive is similar to semtex explosive except it’s incendiary and untraceable by bomb dogs. thanks to tf saber7, isaf and us mps at bagram were able to obtain 4 kilos of this explosive to train their bomb dogs. (there are videos of the bomb dogs at superpats, too.) prior to finding this explosive in serajan’s pillow, neither US or Coalition Forces had the ability to detect this special explosive which was designed for sabotage and terror attacks. A search of the house netted the team explosives, detonators, firing devices, ammunition, and IEDs inside pillows, rice bags, and mattresses. The French Foreign Legion, Netherlands EOD Teams, and Swedish Liaison officers all thanked Jack profusely.

Rolling Stone was given this information and it was conveniently forgotten. This thing has been stinking to high heaven since the guys were “found guilty” back in September of 2004. But is there any mention of the findings since then???

Superpatriots.us has several videos, a couple of which are the bomb sniffing dogs doing their thing. You should check it out.

The biggest problem I have with the Bergen piece is this.

Just weeks before Bergen’s article….

ALL FIVE Appeals Court judges

stated that these men

were completely innocent

yet-ROLLING STONE

FAILED TO PRINT THIS.

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this is idema with colonel gary rohen on a special forces counter-terrorist team. both are carrying sfm16’s with 203 grenade launchers, pvs-5 night vision goggles and browning fast action pistols. rohen is now the deputy director of the fbi’s Counter-Terrorist Watch and was in constant contact with Jack Idema during his latest mission in Afghanistan. Rohen was supposed to deploy with TASK FORCE SABER 7 to Afghanistan but was pulled from the mission for medical reasons.

Jack is a former member of the US Army Special Forces and is a Green Beret. He has operated for the US Government, and trained foreign counter-terrorist forces in Nicaragua against the Sandinistas, in El Salvador with the Ramon Bellosa Immediate Reaction Battalion against the FMLN terrorists, in East Germany and Europe against the Bader Meinhoff Gang, in Thailand with the Thai Special Warfare Command, in Haiti protecting the US Mission against dissidents, in the Middle East against Hezbollah, Hamas and Abu Nidal terrorists, in Lithuania against the OMON terrorists, and numerous other operational areas.

His Special Ops and SF background includes more than two dozen SF, Special Ops, police, counter-terrorist and classified courses and schools. He is an expert in counter-terrorism, intelligence asset development, and hostage-rescue, with more than 25 years’ experience in all of these. He’s currently employed by the Counter-Terrorist Group U.S. (CounTerr Group) as a CT Operator in a direct action capacity against international terrorism, specifically, Al Qaeda and related terrorist groups.

CounTerr, aka CounTerr Group, is an organization based in the US that leads counter-terrorism activites in support of US government initiatives. Counterr Group conducts training, organization, direct action, HUMINT, and advisory services to foreign and domestic agencies. Counterr Group has been in operation , in various forms, in various countries, for approximately 27 years. Counterr Group began deploying personnel to Afghanistan and other countries just weeks after 9/11 as part of the effort to combat Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and other terrorist forces such as the Taliban. Counterr Group’s froeign operating group and CONUS personnel worked in conjunction with Commander Massoud’s Northern Alliance, which were primarily responsible for the liberation of Afghanistan with US Army Special Forces and Special Ops units.

“Keith Idema may be one of the last individuals for whom the phrase ‘I give you my word’ still has meaning. To Keith honor is everything…. Keith will do what he has pledged to do, no matter how difficult…”

“I have relied on him in the past, and never been disappointed.”

(Signed; [The Honorable] Timothy Connolly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict) on official US DOD stationary (the top Pentagon civilian over all US Special Operations units in the world).

“In fact, I was assigned to teach surveillance operations to a British SAS commando force during which time Idema was their principal instructor in hostage rescue and close quarter battle. He [Jack] was the consummate professional with only two goals in mind; saving lives and combating terrorism for the red, white and blue.”

(Letter written by Peter D. Montfort, former Special Forces operative and Senior Detective with the Dutchess County, New York Sheriff’s Office. The letter is dated May 25, 1994)

“SGT Idema possesses a strong personality and a highly developed individualism…He is sure to abrade an occasional superior. Such occasional abrasion is a scant price to pay for his often demonstrated abilities; and besides, some superiors can use a little scraping now and then…Idema is definitely a person, and I prefer a thoroughbred that on occasion needs the bridle, but never the whip, to a plodding cart horse. SGT Idema is the man I want around when the going is rough and in times of stress and crisis. He is a tough and hard driver when you need him. I think the Army needs him and that he belongs in the Army for as long as we can keep him.”

(Excerpt from a 1978 efficiency report contained in a letter of support for Idema written by his former commanding officer, Special Forces Captain Ray Carney. The letter is dated April 30, 1994)

“Idema is a stand-up kind of person. He is what we call a self starter. He is a leader of men and not a follower. He speaks his mind in a true and honest manner and is not a bureaucrat. Although some may not agree with his tact in which he uses to get his point across he is true to his word and is dependable in the highest caliber. I would stand side by side with Idema in the toughest situations in both military and civilian life.”

(Letter of support for Idema written by Special Forces operative and counter-terrorism expert, Master Sergeant Peter L. Conners (later Command Sergeant Major). The letter is dated May 18, 1994 on Department of the Army stationary from a classified unit)

“I have known few people as loyal and dedicated to their Country as Keith Idema.”

(Letter of support for Idema written by John M. Comparetto, New York City Police Detective and Executive Director of the Rockland County SPCC, and later Chief of State of New Jersey Corrections). The letter is dated June 1, 1994)

“Idema goes in locked and loaded and never quits.” “But he’s not afraid of pain, and he’s not sweating death. It’s never occurred to the guy to yield; never crossed his mind…. No doubt about it, Keith is a hardass, but a true patriot, a man of courage and inviolable honor.”

(statements of Major James Morris, recipient of FOUR PURPLE HEARTS, and FOUR BRONZE STAR Medals for valor in Vietnam. Major Morris served three combat tours in Vietnam and has covered eight wars and conflicts as a combat correspondent. He is the author of the best-selling book WAR STORY.

“Idema’s word can be taken as gospel.. I would want him with me in any battle…”

Command Sergeant Major Alex Schwarcbher, US Army Special Forces, and the Senior enlisted man for the United States Army Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg — the school that trains and qualifies Green Berets. Schwarcbher’s medals include the purple heart, the bronze star, the silver star, the MSM, AM, and Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

Jack Idema is

“a man who has walked the moral high ground, and has lived according to the creed ‘Duty, honor, Country’…”

Lt Colonel Rick Lester, Classified Special Operations unit (TF-160).

“Idema is the best Special Forces Weapons Sergeant I have ever known, and one was one the most valued team members in my command.”

And, in a letter of commendation,

“…his ability to train indigenous foreign armies is unsurpassed.”

Written by Colonel Gary Rohen (MACV-SOG Vietnam Team Leader) who is currently the Deputy Director of the FBI’s Counter-Terrorist Watch Command in Washington, DC.

In an official letter dated January 7, 1976, Colonel Charlie A. Beckwith, School Commandant, who became famous as the First Commander of Delta Force, commended Jack on his “perseverance, motivation, and professionalism” in Special Forces:

“During that selection course you excelled by meeting every requirement set upon you, whether it be arriving at your objective on schedule, navigating across hazardous terrain, evading detection or leading an ambush. The initiative you took and the motivation you showed in attaining every objective of a course that was designed to be impossible to complete reflects greatly upon yourself and Special Forces.”

[Signed,] Charlie A. Beckwith
Colonel, Infantry
Director, Special Forces School

For some, the words duty, honor, country still have meaning. Thank God for guys like Keith Idema, and I am so disgusted with all that’s happened as a result of his honorable efforts to fight the Taliban, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

this is idema with colonel gary rohen on a special forces counter-terrorist team. both are carrying sfm16’s with 203 grenade launchers, pvs-5 night vision goggles and browning fast action pistols. rohen is now the deputy director of the fbi’s Counter-Terrorist Watch and was in constant contact with Jack Idema during his latest mission in Afghanistan. Rohen was supposed to deploy with TASK FORCE SABER 7 to Afghanistan but was pulled from the mission for medical reasons.

Jack is a former member of the US Army Special Forces and is a Green Beret. He has operated for the US Government, and trained foreign counter-terrorist forces in Nicaragua against the Sandinistas, in El Salvador with the Ramon Bellosa Immediate Reaction Battalion against the FMLN terrorists, in East Germany and Europe against the Bader Meinhoff Gang, in Thailand with the Thai Special Warfare Command, in Haiti protecting the US Mission against dissidents, in the Middle East against Hezbollah, Hamas and Abu Nidal terrorists, in Lithuania against the OMON terrorists, and numerous other operational areas.

His Special Ops and SF background includes more than two dozen SF, Special Ops, police, counter-terrorist and classified courses and schools. He is an expert in counter-terrorism, intelligence asset development, and hostage-rescue, with more than 25 years’ experience in all of these. He’s currently employed by the Counter-Terrorist Group U.S. (CounTerr Group) as a CT Operator in a direct action capacity against international terrorism, specifically, Al Qaeda and related terrorist groups.

CounTerr, aka CounTerr Group, is an organization based in the US that leads counter-terrorism activites in support of US government initiatives. Counterr Group conducts training, organization, direct action, HUMINT, and advisory services to foreign and domestic agencies. Counterr Group has been in operation , in various forms, in various countries, for approximately 27 years. Counterr Group began deploying personnel to Afghanistan and other countries just weeks after 9/11 as part of the effort to combat Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda and other terrorist forces such as the Taliban. Counterr Group’s froeign operating group and CONUS personnel worked in conjunction with Commander Massoud’s Northern Alliance, which were primarily responsible for the liberation of Afghanistan with US Army Special Forces and Special Ops units.

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Happy Ramadan. Remember the post where I was talking about Ramadan being the time when they celebrate the bloody battles of Mohammed? And they sure know how to pick their battles, don’t they? They pick on little defenseless schoolgirls.

Oh this makes me sick to my stomach.

This is just the beginning of BW’s rant:

Let’s see how W and the rest of the Washington “elites” try and spin this as yet another act by “a tiny minority” of the Muttfucking Camel Fellating Assholes For Allah™?

Christian girls beheaded in grisly Indonesian attack

Yeah. You read that right. “Girls“. As in “school girls walking to class in the morning“.

Go over and look at those pictures. I have never had a queasy stomach over beheading pictures before, but these are some mothers’ baby girls.

Let’s see how the PC crowd spins THIS one.

Thank you, Duncan Avatar at Parrot Check, I tip me tam at ye.

Now I need to go somewhere and pray and cry.

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Imagine my surprise when the first post I put up about Jack here, people seemed to come out of the woodwork commenting about their dismay at Jack’s Idema’s situation in Afghanistan. Read them and it’ll break your heart. But read them anyway.

Here are a few to give you an idea.

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Actually, Cao, you might be the first person to be able to wade through the bullshit and publish the facts. They were terrorists, they got caught, Idema caught them, and then they lied. Like, here’s a good one: the terrorists were supposed to be hanging upside down in a basement. Problem was there was no basement in the house, I know, I sent a team there to photograph it. Nor has ONE piece of evidence ever been shown against them- Just anonymous sources who have all either dissapeared or been identified, and now fired.

Good job, keep it up, and never let them see you sweat.

Comment by Command Sergeant Major Donald

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You go get em ! Finally someone with the balls to start telling the real story. Sorta makes us have renewed faith in bloggers.

Drive on soldier, cause we are all on board the FREE JACK campaign!

And tell your critics to read the book: THEY JUST DON’T GET IT by a retired Colonel, David Hunt, that works for FOX News. Look at page #200, where he quotes an al-Qaida manual which states:

———–
“Missions Required of the Military Organization (al-Qaeda)”

The overthrow of the godless regimes and their replacement with an Islamic regime. Other missions consist of the following:

4. Freeing the brothers who are captured by the enemy.
5. Spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy.
—————-
In plain language, terrorists not only have a reason to lie about their capture, treatment, and make up torture stories, they have a “God given” purpose and directive to do it. Wake up folks. Get a grip. Jack Idema should have killed them.

Afghanistan has a new head of Parliament (the man whose life Idema saved), and is getting a new government. And most of us actually in this battle cannot wait to see what the next few months hold.

You shouldn’t go by Cao, you should go by Tiger. Thanks for supporting the entire military, and most of all the dark operators who everyone always wants to slam as rogue, when maybe it really isn’t that black and white.

Comment by sfops2kabul

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There are many, that have borne the burden of this battle since 9/11 on their shoulders, giving all, getting nothing, and losing everything. Men like Jack Idema, after 9/11, when everyone wanted to go, but didn’t, bore the heaviest load, and sacrificed their families, and often their lives so that America could remain free and safe. So far, no attack, although many have been planned, has taken place on American soil since then.

Our nation owes their thanks, their security, and their very blood to men like Jack Idema and God forgive those bastards that don’t appreciate it, or are too stupid to see it. We should stand in awe of those that were on the front lines in the first days of the war when the Pentagon estimated that most would be wiped out to give the regular Army time prepare. Instead, they took the entire country over in 90 days. Jack Idema was on the forefront of that battle, and I know this for a fact. As does ANY general officer or commander in the Northern Alliance which fought and died by our side. Jack Idema might have done everything right, but he did a lot more right then the rest of the world. And you don’t hear him crying. From what I know, he spit blood in the face of the guys that were torturing him. Any doubts? Call the Red Cross in Kabul. They examined terrorists that had NO MARKS. When the finally saw Idema by accident while he was being moved to another area after 40 days, they asked him how he got so beat up and why his uniform was covered in blood and he told them to fuck off. He took the real beating and sucked it up. Cao, why don’t you contact Tristen at Kabul Red Cross, he told a dozen journalists about it at a bar in Kabul, and I was there and they thought I was a just a security guard for an NGO (pretty stupid assumption if you ever saw me). Not one journalist printed it. By the way, the Red Cross is not allowed to release that information, so you have to figure that this IRCC fellow must have been pretty upset. That’s a story that isn’t on the SuperPatriots.us website.

Thank you Cao, thank you.

Comment by NavSpecWarLNO

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Your blog is great. Jack is innocent. I’ve been his friend for a long time, and been on this story for a long time. He didn’t commit wire fraud either. Jack is harsh, abrasive, hard to take sometimes, egotistical, full fo himself, suicidally brave, and fun. He is SF to the third power, and we’d be better off if we had a lot more like him.

Comment by Jim Morris

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Too bad we didn’t have a whole army of Jack pitbulls out there, the fucking war would be over and we wouldn’t have 2,500 more Americans in Arlingon Cemetary.

Comment by Steven D.

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Known Idema since 1978. I retired from SOCOM and served 35 years in the army, most in Special Forces. I would die for him. Almost have a few times because of his fuck you attitude. Almost 30 years and nothing has changed. He’s 50 years old and has been fighting and killing terrorists long before it was fashionable.

This is not a kid playing “mercenary” this is a highly trained, and highly experienced operator who got hung out to dry in the 80’s in Central America and came back to assist a revolution in the Soviet Union in 1991, then got hung out to dry again, then retired, then went back to war in 2001 and sacrified everything for his country. He spent a year in combat, longer than ANY operator in Afghanistan, and then he went back again and again, and when he finally found Mullah Omar and Hekmatyar, they hung him out to dry again. I would not have done it, but then again I am not him. Most people do not have a clue. I do. I was his intel sergeant in the 80’s. May he one day be recognized for what he is, a true American hero. Lets not forget the men who have stayed with him in prison VOLUNTARILY even after being released. Now what does that tell you about the man?

He once left me behind in 1982 on an operation because I had a wife and kids. He did not expect to return in one piece. He told me I was not needed, the truth was that he didn’t want me to get killed.

In 1980 I watched him knock out the son of the Surgeon General (I think it was the Surgeon General- been 25 years) because the snot nosed major had “insulted” his team commander and said his dad was going get him thrown out of the army. Believe me, he knocked the Major OUT. And the Major deserved it. If you think this is bullshit, check it out, his name was Terry, Luther Terry.

Someone once told me a story about how he rescued a dog from the street in San Salvador and almost got killed doing it. A dog.

The Associated Press called him every terrible thing possible in 2004, but they forgot to mention that they called him an American Hero in April 2002 for saving 300 women and children- SINGLE-HANDEDLY during an Afghan earthquake and Taliban attack. The Associated Press even published pictures of him rescuing both children and old women. They never told you about that when they wanted to sell papers in 2004 based on him being an accussed torturer.

What blows me away, is that Americans watch Jack Bauer (24) on TV every single week, and love it and cheer. When the real deal shows up you crap you pants. Well he’s the real version. The REAL deal.

He defends those that cannot defend themselves without concern for his safety, career, or life. He choses his country first, sacrifices all, and pays dearly. What do you say about someone like this? For more than a year bloggers have made me sick abusing the freedom of speech with lies, now one person stand up and stands fast.

May God bless you and your family Cao.

De Oppresso Liber,

Thomas R. Bumback
Master Sergeant
US Army Special Forces
(retired)

*****

OOHHRRAAHH

It does my heart and soul good to see such Warriors in support of one of their own!

SSgt Yatahey
Former U.S. MARINE Forward Scout/Sniper
2 Tours Viet-Nam / 3rdMarDiv / 27thMarines

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we’ve known keith “jack” since he was 16…and his mom and dad too….we lived down the street….
you never need to doubt him and his intentions…he’s the best
keep blogging…we’re working here to free him too……….
you go girl!

Comment by louise tricard

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Flogging the Simian is another way to say white trash trailer tramp slumming loser in Romania makes up a thousand lies on a blog, and stupid people all over the world assume that this young penniless blowjob queen whore (see the latest news on his/its multiracial love triangle that got him/it beat up and thrown in a ditch) has the inside scoop on one of the biggest and most controversial cases in the War on Terror, more than 10,000 miles away in a country with little or no communications. Is there something wrong with this picture?

Hey Cao, SOJ is an American guy living in Romania (Cluj Napoca) who dedicated 100% of his time to blogging and who lives from donations from his readers. He signs as Soj and his blog - Flogging the Simian - was nomineed on the Southeastern Europe’s best blogs category at AFOE a while ago.

This is the problem with Blogs and and Bloggers that lie and falsify information and destroy lives. Jack Idema was one of them, billed as a criminal instead of a hero, by anti-american bloggers, who led the rest of the blogggers by the nose. If you want the real truth on those American heroes SOJ and most of the other bloggers have painted with fantasy and lies, then check out www.superpatriots.us - Proof with PICTURES NOT EMPTY WORDS. For how some blogs lie and decieve us for their own political agenda see: www.superpatriots.us/flogginfraud/index.htm Maybe its time all the blogs started printing the real story and helped these three Americans….

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I am pleased to have with me today Jim Morris, a well-published author and SF to the nth power–whose history with Jack Idema goes way back in time. Excuse me, Sir, but it’s been over 20 years, hasn’t it?

Morris is the author of the best seller War Story, published only four years after the fall of Saigon.

Jim Morris is now a retired professional soldier who began military school at eleven, and eventually joined the Army and Special Forces where later he rose to the rank of major. Three tours in Vietnam, four Purple Hearts, four Bronze Stars among numerous other decorations were among his accomplishments serving in SF before a medical discharge for wounds cut his career short. After Vietnam and graduate school Morris traveled to Cambodia, to cover the war for Rolling Stone. Besides four novels Morris has also written The Devil’s Secret Name and Fighting Men. Operation Dumbo Drop, a Disney movie starring Ray Liotta and Danny Glover, is based on a story Morris published in Soldier of Fortune magazine in 1980.

Sir, it is an honor to have you with us. I’d like to ask you a few questions about Jack Idema, from the perspective of someone who’s known him a long time.

# How long have you known Jack, and what kind of history do the two of you have together?

Truth is I’ve known Jack for so long that it’s hard for me to remember how we met. Ah, it’s coming back. In the early 80s I was editing a magazine called EAGLE. Jack was running some great counter-terror courses then, and called me. He also sent me some great pix of his training. All he wanted was credit if we used them. I was fine with that. Later, when my friend Ken Kelsch, formerly XO the the Recon CO of CCN (SOG-Vietnam), now a very fine cinematographer, (Medium, the TV show) was shooting some stuff in Fayetteville, I suggested he look Jack up, and they became friends.

The first time I met him in person was around 91 or 2, when I was shooting a video history of SF. Ken was DP on that project, and we went to see Jack at the Counterr Group HQ in F-ville. It was during his second wire fraud trial, and he was confined to his building, wearing a cuff. He explained the whole Lithuania/ex-KGB suitcase nuke smuggling thing, and about his relationship with the FBI, and their bogus wire fraud investigation.

As that progressed I did a series of stories about him and his difficulties with the FBI for Soldier of Fortune.

# Why, in your opinion, is Jack is innocent of wire fraud?

Here’s why I’m so sure he was innocent of those charges. Knowing that my stories had the potential to generate several huge libel suits if they were untrue, I wrote them exactly the way I wanted to, and sent them to SOF’s managing editor at that time. I cautioned him to have them carefully vetted by their attorney, and I’d rewrite them based on his critique. This editor (I just wrote a whole string of nasty things, then thought the better of it and cut them.) published them without ever showing them to the lawyer at all. In those pieces I accused an FBI agent of perjury, by name, and named the person I believed had actually done the wire fraud, by name. My God we were open to lawsuit if anything I said was false. We never even got a nasty phone call.

So, that’s how I learned a law enforcement technique. If they want to nail your ass, you don’t have to have actually committed a crime. You just have to know someone who has committed a crime. They nail that person, and get them to swear you did it if they let you go. Simple.

That reason wouldn’t stand up in a court of law. But I’m not a court of law, and that experience convinced me that Jack is innocent.

# What kind of a man do you think he is?

Well, gee, that’s kind of a mixed bag. He IS a true patriot. He is a genius at commando operations on the level of Wm. O. Darby or Otto Skorzeny. He is, as I have said before on your blog, SF to the third power, and with a rocket up his ass. Downside, well, here is a guy who BOASTS of having totaled six Corvettes. If he ever gives up commando operations and counterrevolutionary warfare, I would not suggest he seek employment in the area of public relations. Jack does not just call a spade a spade; he calls it a nasty, evil, shit-covered shovel.

One of his proudest boasts is that he was the youngest guy to make it through SF Training Group. This is true, but I think he would have been better served to have spent a couple of years in a TO&E infantry outfit before coming to SF. SF, at least at that time, had a tradition of running roughshod over any regulation that got in the way of the mission. We were true wheeler-dealers. But, if you had a little time in the regular army you had a better sense of when that was a good thing and when it wasn’t. You had a better sense of when it was time to suck it up and make it look “regulation”, and when it was time to let it roll.

My feeling is that, with that background, instead of pissing the FBI off he could have played them like a harmonica.

# You mentioned that you didn’t think he was guilty of the wire fraud charges. Can you share with me your thoughts on this?

Okay, this is somebody else’s story. Gary Scurka, another friend of Jack’s, and a very high-profile TV reporter tells me that he is absolutely convinced that Jack is innocent for an entirely other reason, also circumstantial.

Jack was married at the time of his arrest and trial. The Fan-belt Inspectors approached his wife and offered her a deal if she would roll over on Jack. She invited them to defecate in their chapeaux. As a result SHE went to jail for 15 months. She was stand-up through all that time, but when she hit the halfway house, well, she likes guys and found one. Pretty soon she was married to an E-5 in the 82d. Jack was pissed and said and did some things that kind of soured her remaining feelings for him. The last time Scurka talked to her she flat hated Jack’s guts, and had plenty of reason to say anything that would put him in a bad light. Plus, she had already done her time, so it would have cost her nothing to confess. “Listen,” she told Scurka.

“I hate the sonofabitch, but he’s not lying about that. We didn’t do any of that stuff.”

So now you know why I believe it, and why Gary Scurka believes it.

# Do you think he’s innocent of torturing those Afghans–you’ve heard the allegations, I’m sure–pouring boiling water on them, hanging them from the ceiling of a (non-existent basement) for 18 days, burning them with cigarettes, etc.?

As to Jack torturing the Afghans. I’ve never been to Afghanistan, so my conclusions can only be based on a knowledge of Jack’s general character. He is not a sadistic person. I’ve never really discussed interrogation with him, per se, but I do know his level of knowledge of most military topics, and must assume he knows just as much about interrogation. Torture is not a good interrogation technique, because the subject will tell you whatever you want to hear to make you stop. My guess would be that Jack would be far more likely to give him a cigarette and a cup of coffee, and just sit there and shoot the breeze with the guy until he had given it all away.

# Do you believe the media has engaged in a smear campaign against Jack and his men?

I would not say that the media has engaged in a smear campaign so much as simply indulged it’s normal prejudices. Almost none of these guys, and gals, have ever served in the military, and their general mindset is individualistic and iconoclastic. They have the normal human tendency to like people who are like them, and to dislike people who are unlike them, which includes almost all government employees, and especially the disciplined, tightly-wrapped, single-minded military. They have no interest in heroes whatsoever (Except heroes of the media, like Edward R. Murrow, who was a genuine hero, but was not like them at all.) and are on the hunt for villains, or anyone who might be a villain, or who can be presented or interpreted as a villain.

I have two degrees in journalism, and have made my living as a journalist off and on since 1960, including being a military Public Affairs Officer, freelance magazine writer, magazine editor, author of non-fiction books, and television producer. As such I have had many contacts with the major media, and have liked and admired many of the people I know, such as Haney Howell, Ed Bradley, Mike Wallace, of CBS, Mike Herr, author of my nominee of the best non-fiction Vietnam book, Dispatches, Joe Galloway of We Were Soldiers fame, and many others. These are some of the most courageous and honest people I know. But their work is subject to distortion at the editorial level, and most of these guys are better than the average of their peers.

Over the years I can say that the common run of reporters have their stories written in their minds before they cover them, and only go to where they’re happening to fill in the blanks. Those stories have what might be charitably termed a “progressive” slant. As information for informed citizens they are virtually useless or counterproductive.

Objective journalism is a myth, and deserves to be on George Carlin’s list of oxymorons. I respect journalists like yourself, who blythly announce their prejudices up front, and let the reader/viewer for his or her own conclusions.

So, as charitably as I can put it, I do not think they set out to smear Jack, but the effect is the same.

Most people know me from War Story, which has the most bang-bang of any of my books. But I’ve written a whole book on my experiences with this, and you might enjoy it. It’s called The Devil’s Secret Name, and its in print from St. Martin’s. Amazon has it.

# Thanks for mentioning that, I mentioned it in my introduction, but I had no idea as to the subject matter. I’m sure I WILL enjoy it, I’m certainly enjoying this! *smile* So…what are your thoughts on how the American military is supporting our boys in the field?

I believe there are two types of information, personal observation and propaganda. So, I can only comment on that in a very general way. SOF has become a bureaucracy, and bureaucracies loathe initiative.

# What are your thoughts specifically on how the American military is supporting our SF in the field?

My feeling is that we’ve lost many high-value targets because nobody gets to move before they get approval from higher. Standard guerrilla tactics in my day were to move every three days. I think OBL & Co. do it quicker than that. In other words, if a team spots an HVT they oughta move right then. Higher is now so nervous in the service that they won’t move until they have something that doesn’t exist, a course of action with no possible downside.

I love what you’re doing. Keep it up. Folks like you are making the major media obsolete.

Thank you, Sir. It’s totally a labor of love for me; I see it as a mission, but it’s also a passion. Thank you for your service, and the kind words. I look forward to reading your book The Devil’s Secret Name (and I’ll probably get more than just one, War Hero comes highly recommended by my readers and I’m embarrassed I haven’t read it yet). It’s hearing things like that from people like you that motivates me to move ahead when the going gets tough and I am fed up or want to quit. Thank you for your time.

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Not EVERYONE lies, although I think it’s becoming a more commonplace than it was when I was a kid. I saw a study not too long ago that said that 75% of High School students admit they cheat on tests. Does this mean we’re entering into an era where lying is a matter of principle? Just business as usual? Nobody tells the George Washington cherry tree story anymore. The principles that were a part of this great nation not so long ago have become just a shimmering light in the distant past.

Let me pose this question: If you print someone else’s lie, are you culpable for its propagation? According to the United States Supreme Court, you are. In the case of Jack Idema, that’s what these journalists did.

Press Lie # 1-

Within hours after their arrest the press was claiming that “men were found hanging upside down in their compound.”

The truth is–this didn’t happen. Nobody was ever found tortured, hung upside down, or abused. There is no evidence to the contrary, never has been any.The lies sold stories. It fueled the feeding frenzy. Journalists smelled blood in the water. Just like the Abu Ghraib Koran flushing incident which IMO, should never have hit the airwaves. If someone had been hung from the ceiling or walls of their house, or any building in that compound, the roof and walls would have collapsed. Does anyone know anything about building construction in this area of the world? My son does, he’s an electrician who’s been working in Iraq for the past 2 years. He is appalled at what passes for electrical wiring. People have died from electrocution over there, just from turning on the light and taking a shower….something people over here take for granted.

FYI–Afghan mortar is barely sufficient to hang a picture, let alone a man’s weight. In fact, reporters paid NDS/FBI agents for tours of the house, no where was there ANY evidence of anyone ever hanging from anything. If there was, believe you me, you would have seen that picture on the front cover of Time and Newsweek by now. They would have stolen those images and published them and made all kinds of excuses for why they did it. The only things ever “hanging” in Jack’s compound were pictures of Commander Massoud in the living room.

Press Lie # 2-

New York Magazine: “Early press reports indicated that three prisoners found in Idema’s custody during the raid were blindfolded and beaten and strapped to the ceiling by their feet; five others were tied to chairs with rope in a small, dark room down a hall that was littered with bloodied clothing.”

Please, spare us the hyperbole. What Sullivan conveniently FAILS to mention is that those “Early press reports” were widely known to be false, and were known by her to be false BEFORE she printed that article. In other words, Sullivan couldn’t say that it was true, or fact, or proven at trial, or anything else, so she said “early press reports…” this way she could use blatantly false and horrible lies with impunity. No one ever said this at trial, the translation was wrong, and Jack and the crew have the trial tapes. As far as a hall “littered with bloody clothing” that one of the most outrageous lies ever told. Let’s assume this is true; can someone please explain why no terrorist, no person, has ever shown a single laceration, cut, abrasion, or any other verifiable injury to any one???? In fact, the only verifiable injuries have been to the men of TASK FORCE SABER 7 (check out the case section of the Superpats website) Even in the first days, no press agency or journalist ever printed any of this with a name attached to the source. It was always “a source that refused to be named.” That’s press lingo for; I can’t say this because I made it up, or at best, it’s a rumor, just to sell newspapers or magazines. Sickening when you think about it, criminal when you consider how it affected the lives and liberty of three innocent Americans and their families.

Press Lie # 3-

“…Arrested Innocent Afghans.”

The ‘innocent’ Afghans arrested by TASK FORCE SABER 7 were captured with explosives, detonators, fuses, bomb plans, maps of failed bomb attempt routes, terrorist recruitment paraphernalia, terrorist documents, weapons, ammunition, maps of ISAF compounds, Bagram Airbase, a Red Cross note from an al-Qaida leader in GITMO Cuba, a letter from Mullah Omar, and even newspapers with their previous attacks and killings circled and highlighted.

Yeah. What do you suppose the chances are of grabbing some dumb schlub who steps off a bus and he just happens to have a Red Cross note from an Al Qaeda leader in Gitmo Cuba in his pocket…and–oh, by the way– this leader just happens to turns out to be the guy’s brother?

Press Lie # 4-

“Many of Idema’s claims, such as the Iraq-al-Qaida connection, have since been discredited by the 9-11 Commission and UN Weapons inspectors…”

The truth is that NONE of Jack’s intelligence has EVER been discredited or disproven. For an example, Jack stated bin Laden was in TORA BORA and escaped in December 2001. The Chief of Taliban Intelligence which TF SABER 7 captured and turned over to TF 180 at Bagram in May 2004, also confirmed this, and of course, it was in the book THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN, based on Jack’s statements. Yet General Tommy Franks, like the press, has been denying this as recently as November 2004. However, on or about March 22nd, 2005, a FOIA request uncovered a document from GITMO in which a captured al-Qaida terrorist had admitted helping bin Laden escape from Tora Bora. This was widely reported in late March 2005– maybe the press should be apologizing to Jack for this too.

As to an Iraqi/bin Laden connection; the press loves to slam the President on this “mistake,” ignoring the bin Laden memo found in Iraq which personally invited bin Laden to Iraq to discuss ongoing coordination and support.

And lets not forget that several al-Qaida groups have operated in Northern Iraq since before the war in Iraq ever started.

Just listen to this ABC Clip from 1999…leftists have a short memory when they’re out to smear someone.

Ever hear of “ABLE DANGER”? There was something seriously wrong with the 9/11 Commission Report, which is why several Senators have asked for an investigation as to why the facts didn’t all come out. The facts didn’t all come out, in part, because they’d already made up their minds what the outcome would be–and they discounted any information that didn’t fit into that desired outcome.

It would seem there are certain bloggers who fit into that category, too, looking at certain facts in only one way to arrive at a derogatory conclusion.

In 1992, when Z1wahiri (Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda leader -right hand man to Bin Laden) met with Iraqi Intelligence agents over several days.

Between April 25 and May 1, 1998, two of Bin Laden’s military commanders, Mohammed Abu-Islam and Abdullah Qussim, visited Baghdad for discussions with Saddam Hussein’s son - Qusay Hussein - the “czar” of Iraqi Intelligence.

In mid-July, 1998, Bin Laden Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian co-founder of Al Qaeda, to Iraq to meet with senior Iraqi officials, including Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan.

Hahib Faris Abdullah al-Masouri, a general in the Iraqi Secret Services and a member of Iraqis M-8 Special Operations branch, met with September 11 pilot hijacker Mohammed Atta in Rome.

During the 1990’s, Sudan’s Sheikh Hassan al-Tourabi of the Islamic National Front arranged meetings between Bin Laden and Iraqi Intelligence officials. Bin Laden met with Faruq Al-Hijazi, and Iraqi intelligence agent in the Sudan who would later head Iraqi intelligence for Saddam Hussein.

Bin Laden again met with Iraqi intelligence officers in 1994 and 1995 in the Sudan.

Iraqi intelligence officials met with Bin Laden in Afghanistan several more times.

Following the December 1998 air strikes on Iraq, Saddam Hussein dispatched Faruq Hijazi to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in order to meet with Bin Laden and plot their revenge.

Qusay Hussein dispatched representatives to follow up with Bin Laden and obtain his firm commitment to exact revenge against the United States for the December 1998 bombing campaign.

According to Czech intelligence sources, on June 2, 2000, Mohammed Atta, a pilot and the operational leader of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks traveled to Prague to meet with other co-conspirators.

Upon information and belief, sometime between April 8-11, 2001, Atta left Florida again when he was a flight student, to again meet in Prague with Iraqi Intelligence agent Al-Ani.

Other intelligence reports indicate that Al-Ani met with another September 11 hijacker, Khalid Al Midhar as well.

Habib Faris Abdullah Al-Mamouri, a general in the Iraqi Secret Service, and a member of Iraq’s M-8 Special Operations branch, met with September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta in Rome, Hamburg and Prague.

According to US and foreign intelligence officials, in the Spring of 2000, Iraqi Intelligence agents met with September 11, 2001 hijackers Zaid Samir Jarrah and Marawan Al-Shehhi in Dubai, UAE in order to advance the hijacking of U.S. aircraft to commit terrorist acts.

Hey. How’m I doin’?

As to WMD, check this out at Frontpage Magazine, or these posts here at CB; here, here, here, here. Geez, you’d think some people would get a clue beyond stupid lies told by some penniless idiot sitting on his duff looking for stuff to write about in order to beg for money from his readers over there in Romania.

Regarding Jack’s interview on MSNBC stating that Iraq was providing support, equipment, and men to al-Qaida, Blake is obviously not well enough informed to know that there were many Iraqi’s captured in Afghanistan during the 2001 war. One of those IRAQI terrorists, named Bokan, was captured in the battle of Kunduz in November 2001. Bokan later escaped from Shebergan prison in Northern Afghanistan, was re-arrested when he tried to assassinate General Fahim, the Minister of Defence, and sent to Pulacharke with other Iraqi, Pakistani, Arab, and Chinese al-Qaida terrorists. Bokan led the assassination attempt on Jack and the other men on December 17, 2004 and was killed by Colonel Sherzaman in a gun battle protecting Jack. The Colonel was subsequently murdered by the other terrorists. The one Arab terrorist that survived, although severely wounded, admitted that it was an al-Qaida assassination plot, and that many Iraqi’s had been sent to Afghanistan to fight with bin Laden. So much for the accuracy of the 9/11 report.

Press Lie # 5-

Mariah Blake and her friend Stacy Sullivan, quote from CJR: “…but by billing him [Jack] as a government official, the media lent them credence.”

First, let us point out that the media NEVER billed Jack as a government official. In fact, Jack went to great efforts to make it clear that although he is a Green Beret, he was no longer on active-duty, nor assigned to the Special Forces troops in Afghanistan, he was with the Northern Alliance as a civilian military advisor to Massoud’s forces, and remains one. The exact NPR quote was “former” which was a word conveniently left out of the quote by Mariah Blake. Sullivan, in her vicious truth twisting style, stated in her NY Magazine article that Idema was turning up on TV, calling “himself a Green Beret” and “clearly implying he was on active duty.” Apparently Sullivan and Blake, who wrote their articles in concert, conveniently ignored their OWN picture used in NY Magazine (pg. 37) which clearly states, “RET” - that means RETIRED for all you stupid idiots out there.

Press Lie # 6-

“Idema wore a backward US Flag.”

Nobody but the most exceptionally ignorant journalist could express this lame observation. The “Stars and Stripes” always fly with the blue field facing into battle.

Press Lie # 7-

“Duped ISAF.”

ISAF worked closely with TF SABER 7 throughout the entire 2004 operation, this is well documented in video and photos, including photos in MAXIM and STUFF. In fact, not only did ISAF repeatedly congratulate Jack and his men in writing but the German Army EOD team even received an award for helping Jack. T F SABER 7 and ISAF worked together repeatedly and closely, until the FBI started complaining and then later when the press started writing about mythical torture. In fact, coalition forces are STILL working with TF SABER 7 covertly in various terrorist investigations.

Press Lie # 8-

“No connection to US Government.”

For 25 years, the Counterr Terrorist Group had been funded by the United States, DIA, CIA, Secret Service, FBI, National Park Service, BOP, and US Navy SEALs, US Special Operations, DEA, and US Missions to foreign countries, such as Haiti. Jack Idema has trained, worked for, and worked with more than 100 federal and foreign special operations, counter-terrorist, and HRT agencies and organizations. In fact, he even trained a US president’s son how to shoot a pistol.

Press Lie # 9-

“Idema had some special forces training.” And, “Idema was never a Green Beret.”

Jack Idema graduated the Special Forces Course in 1976, earning his Green Beret in 1975 (see the About The SuperPatriots page) and went to more than thirty Special Forces and Special Operations Courses, including teaching at the US Army Special Warfare Center (the Green Beret School) as Senior Instructor. We assure you this man is the real deal. The phony military slander that is on certain websites and stated by sources who can only wish and dream of having his credentials, then reported by outlets like Dallas Morning News, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Magazine, are complete fabrications and lies. Jack Idema has been fighting for America since he was 17 years old, and we have no doubt he will continue to do so.

A complete rebuttal with evidence is HERE.

Press Lie # 10-

State Department: “They got a fair trial.”

Oh, this is a good one. Suggest you visit the About the Case part of the Superpats site. Before you get there, ask yourself this: How does a Taliban Judge and a Taliban Prosecutor, preside over a trial of ANY American? Is there something wrong with this picture? We already know there is something wrong with this war.

Press Lie # 11-

State Department: “They are in good health.”

Oh, this one is like drinking gasoline. Just read the suit against Ambassador Khalilzad. The US Consul saw so many bruises, lacerations, and burns on Jack that she almost threw up. Jack of course, had no problem stripping for her and making sure she saw all the marks. Then she waited two weeks to send a doctor, ordered the report “modified” (Jack had two partially detached retinas from the concussions to his head and blows to his temples), then she (Sandra Ingram) said she would file a formal complaint, and instead told the Taliban guards who promptly handcuffed and beat Jack unconscious again when she left. These guys were burned, beaten, electrocuted, drugged, and beat with sticks and cables (metal whips the Taliban became famous for). The US Counsel and Ambassador knew all about it, and the FBI laughed about it.

Ever hear of Fallaqua? That’s the fine art of tying someone’s feet to a rod and beating the bottoms of your feet. It was a favorite torture technique of the Hussein brothers. What it does is–pulverizes and breaks the small bones in your feet and your feet end up swelling up like footballs. This is just one of the glorious physical treatments they were given before they were moved to Pulacharke; all with the full knowledge and consent of the FBI.

Press Lie # 12-

Columbia Journalism Review: “Idema received “at least one donation [in other words, an illegal donation] according to his bank records.” And, in New York Magazine: “… a letter from a North Carolina Postal Inspector, charging Idema with mail fraud…”

Total lies. These so-called “bank records” DO NOT exist. It is a complete fabrication and myth. Totally made up, never happened. If it did, Mariah Blake and Stacy Sullivan sure as hell would have printed the bank records, but they didn’t. Jack never took a dime from anyone in donations, and every dime he spent in the War On Terror and for humanitarian aid efforts and medical supplies for the Afghans was his OWN money. We bet this one is getting them sued post haste. The source for this, Chris Thompson, was already being sued by Jack because it was Thompson that was stealing money, and Thompson got caught doing it.

Press Lie # 13-

“Jack’s al-Qaida Tapes are fake.”

Lot’s of folks are trying to propagate this one. Coincidentally, most of these are the same folks already getting sued by Jack for interfering with his ownership of the al-Qaida 8mm VideoX Training Tapes. The tapes are the only known al-Qaida training tapes ever captured which give the world an inside look at not only al-Qaida tactics that are being used against the west, but also the identities of al-Qaida terrorists. Although very few actual al-Qaida faces have ever been shown to the world by Jack (see: CBS 60 Minutes - January 17, 2002), the fact is that American intelligence agencies were supplied with the full version and have been able to identify numerous terrorists as the result of Jack’s efforts, and that includes both the capture and termination of al-Qaida terrorists. Military personnel can determine the truth themselves in the military section and watch a video clip.

John, BB or RDX, you can correct me if I’m wrong–but if I’m not mistaken, every single one of the guys in that tape were arrested and detained.

Press Lie # 14-

New York Magazine: The CIA did voice analysis on the tapes and they were fake.

Total bullshit. The CIA never did any such thing. The CIA knew they were real because Jack gave them the tapes and they had confirmed identities of terrorists on the tapes which were not masked (these were the restricted 7 hours that Jack only gave to US, British-MI-6, and Australian SAS intelligence). If CJR and NY Magazine had a budget, instead of being fly-by-night operations, they would have hired a translator and confirmed the Arabic dialects on the tapes, which is what Dan Rather and CBS did before airing them. Blake and Sullivan’s unnamed “CIA source” was Joe Cafasso (see At FOX News, The Colonel Who Wasn’t,” New York Times article, 4/29/02, Jim Rutenberg) or my little piece here. Whoa, talk about using one of the worst, most tainted sources in the world- a guy who claimed to be a Colonel in Special Forces with three Silver Stars, and who served with Delta Force at DESERT ONE. Ha! Turns out Cafasso was a Private who served at Fort Dix, NJ for 44 days before being forcibly discharged for unsuitability for service. Great source Mariah and Stacy (by the way, both journalists knew this BEFORE they wrote their articles).

Interestingly enough, just recently, the CIA CONFIRMED with journalist Sherrie Gossett at Accuracy in Media that these statements by Blake and Sullivan, in Columbia Journalism Review and NY Magazine, were completely false.

Press Lie # 15-

New York Magazine, quoting Tracy Paul Warrington, “I was looking at seven hours of tape of something that al-Qaida doesn’t do.”

First, it is interesting to point out that Warrington was fired from CUBIX Defense Company for misuse of company email, among other related things, when Warrington accused Jack of conducting mortar attacks on civilians from mosques, and used company email to do it. Now lets look at the quote. Right about the same time he said this, al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists in Kabul kidnapped several UN personnel in the middle of Kabul city in an attack that was portrayed in Jack’s 8mm VideoX tapes exactly as it was practiced three years earlier. We could go on and on about this, but suffice it to say, Warrington, is not a former “Deputy Commander” of Special Forces, or of a “Special Forces counter-terrorism team” (Blake’s CJR article), nor has he ever seen the seven hours of tape– that is a lie, only the CIA, the DIA, and several other alphabet agencies have ever been given those highly restricted 7 hours by Jack, although most of it was shown to Dan Rather (CBS) and Eric Campbell (ABC) AFTER Jack got permission from a US Army PAO. Oh yeah, just for the record, Warrington, Stacy’s “expert,” has never even been to Afghanistan.

Press Lie # 16-

NY Magazine: Talking about wounded journalist Gary Scurka: “…Idema returned, trailing clouds of camera-ready military glory…’basically he was acting in front of the camera.’” But, “…Scurka finished still another documentary including no footage of Idema or his exploits.”

When Gary Scurka was wounded in November 2001, Tim Friend (Sullivan’s “source”) had helped put his Afghan scarf around one of Scurka’s legs. Medical care was hours away, and Scurka was losing massive amounts of blood. Jack and Greg Long took Scurka across the river, where JACK put Scurka in a Land Cruiser and did ALL of his medical work out of camera view. Jack took off the scarves, found three more unseen severe wounds, and administered antibiotic and Demerol injections, then jack stopped the bleeding with hemostats and Combat Trauma Dressings. But NOT BEFORE Jack told Scurka’s cameraman to “put the fucking camera down and hand me scissors and hemostats out of that bag [pointing to his medic bag].” THAT is one reason why you have not seen Jack’s efforts “on film,” although there is film of Jack there and evacuating Scurka, and Jack later asked Scurka NOT to air his face. There is more to this that cannot be released until after the trial of Ed Artis this June. Scurka confirmed all of this in a sworn statement under oath. Scurka also confirmed that Jack saved his life that day, NOT “Sir” Edward Artis, who was more than a hundred miles away when it happened, although, as Jack points out in THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN, it was Kevin Sites who pulled Scurka off the hill and was the hero that day. Read what Scurka said in the Fayetteville Observer when he returned home.

Press Lie # 17-

“Idema paid Caraballo to be his cameraman.”

Ed’s company has done previous relief video editing for Counterr Group for their humanitarian relief efforts in Afghanistan, as well as some video compression work for Idema’s National Press Club Award winning “The Colonel’s Story” (a prestigious award neither Sullivan or Blake have ever even been considered for). Caraballo also made a promotional tape for the book The Hunt For Bin Laden to be used by the publicity department at Random House, one of the largest publishers in America. Jack did not pay Caraballo to be a cameraman in Afghanistan. In fact, our sources (and they are pretty darn good sources) indicated Jack did not even want to bring him, or any journalist, and the Army asked him to bring three different journalists, all of which Jack turned down.

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Look. I didn’t hear anyone complaining or attacking Steven Vincent when he made the decision to go over to the Middle East on his own dime– much like Jack did because he knew this would be a fight for our very existence. So–what’s the matter, is the problem that Jack isn’t some high-falutin’ art critic turned journalist but instead is seasoned, highly trained professional warrior, cut from SF cloth? Get a grip, you pansies. And change your damned underwear.

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Paul Mirengoff’s assessment at Power Line:

“…looks strong on its face, and the offenses alleged are serious ones. However, Libby is innocent until Fitzgerald proves otherwise.

The impression one gets from reading the indictment is that there was massive cooperation on the part of administration employees and officials. This looks like the anti-Watergate — a president ordering everyone to cooperate and the absence of any organized cover-up.

Unless Karl Rove is indicted later on, the political fall-out is likely to be almost non-existent.”

Kevin Ayward says it best over at Wizbang. The press conference was live blogged by Michelle Malkin.

I have better things to do with my time than to cover this at length, but the highlights are:

Fitzgerald said,

“We have not made any allegation that Libby knowingly/intentionally outed a covert agent.”

Nobody else in the administration has been charged with any wrong doing. Fitzgerald also said,

“This indictment is not about the war. Not about the propriety of the war. This is stripped of that debate and focused on a narrow transaction…”

Liberal dreams of a smoking gun and fond memories of Watergate have been trashed by the limited scope of Fitzgerald’s indictments.

It really isn’t bad news at all. When I was blogging about Plamegate I was blogging about the ridiculousness of the accusations and how Plame and her husband are media whores. I stand by that assessment.

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In my virtual travels and arguments with trolls on the intelligent design versus evolution theory, I noticed the reference to the quote over at Flogging the Simian, which I thought was incredibly amusing.

Apparently, Soj is a true communist as she believes in the theory of evolution. Funny how people of the leftist ideological persuasion hold that view in addition to the idea that Christians shouldn’t be allowed to have a voice and are second class citizens. This holds true with how Christians are treated under sharia law, incidentally, which is yet another reason why leftists get along with islamic terrorists so famously…islamofascism is similar to fascism which is a derivative of marxism, so they’re all in one big happy family. What Soj displays on her blog is a picture of a monkey at a typewriter and she refers to a quote from Thomas Huxley.

This famous evolutionary argument, dates back to 1860, the year after the publication of the Origin of Species. At Oxford, Darwin’s Bulldog, Thomas Huxley, engaged in a creation-evolution debate with theologian Samuel Wilberforce. There is no transcript, but reportedly, Huxley, in making his case for chance origins, said that six monkeys, poking randomly at typewriters, and given enough millions of years, could write all the books in the British Museum. More than 100 years later, people heard a variation on that theme;

“If a room full of monkeys were randomly clack at typewriters long enough, they would eventually recreate the complete works of Shakespeare. And if monkeys could recreate the complete works of Shakespeare by chance, then obviously a cell’s information content could also arise by chance, if only given enough time.”

Anyone who believes these projections hasn’t figured out the math. What are the odds of a monkey typing one predetermined nine-letter word, such as “evolution”? Let’s assume a typewriter has only letters and no other symbols. Obviously, the first letter “e” would be a piece of cake. But to get “evolution”, since the alphabet has 26 letters, one must multiply 26 by itself eight times. We find the monkey would need, on average, more than five trillion attempts just to write “evolution” once correctly. Typing ten letters per minute, this would take over a million years. To get two consecutive pretermined nine-letter words, such as “evolution commenced”, would take more than a billion billion years, taking us much further back than the Big Bang, which supposedly occurred some 15 billion years ago. In other words, if a monkey started typing at the time of the Big Bang, and continued until now, he couldn’t even produce two consecutive preselected 9-letter words–let alone “the works of Shakespeare”.

If it is objected that the example had a roomful of monkeys, Dr. Duane Gish puts the monkey matter in perspective:

If one billion planets the size of the earth were covered eyeball to eyeball and elbow to elbow with monkeys, and each monkey was seated at a typewriter (requiring about 10 square feet for each monkey, of the approximately 10 to the 16 power square feet available on each of the 10 to the 9th power planets) and each monkey typed a string of 100 letters every second for five billion years, the chances are overwhelming that not one of these monkeys would have typed the sentence correctly! Only 10 to the 41st power tries could be made by all these monkeys in that five billion years…There would not be the slightest chance that a single one of the 10 to the 24th power monkeys (a trillion trillion monkeys) would have typed a preselected sentence of 100 letters (such as “The subject of this Impact article is the naturalistic design of life on the earth under assumed primordial conditions”) without a spelling error, even once.

Apparently Soj is comparing her blog to shakespeare and if that isn’t a “hoot”, I don’t know what is. Either that, or she’s wacking the monkey. Instead of “flogging the simian” I much prefer she call it what it really is…which is “wacking the monkey”.

Update: I found out Soj is a man. So he is DEFINITELY wacking the monkey.

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Ex-Engineer Charged With Selling Secrets (C-BS News)

HONOLULU, Oct. 28, 2005
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(AP) An engineer who called himself the father of the technology that protects the B-2 stealth bomber from heat-seeking missiles has been arrested and accused of selling U.S. military secrets involving the aircraft to a foreign country, the FBI said.

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I’ve set up a section for Task Force Sabre 7 where you can scan through the latest information I’ve been able to obtain and put together for you.

Just know that I stand behind you all here at CB, and the Wide Awakes are also right there with you, as many of them are active or former military. You won’t get any leftist elitist anti-American military hating bullshit over here.

Hang tight and keep the faith.

If you are interested in other stories generated by people faithful to the military, check out Heidi and Kit at Euphoric Reality who followed

2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano’s case

and that of the allegations against

Team 24….1st Brigade LRRPs, F/58th LRP, or L/75th Rangers and Gary Linderer.

God bless our Seals and SF Personnel wherever they are, whatever their missions and may God watch over them, keep them safe, and bring them home in VICTORY.

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US EMBASSY SPITS ON FIRST AMENDMENT

IN AFGHANISTAN

US State Department tried to shut down the Afghan Newspaper that called for Idema’s release. NDS and FBI agents Seize 10,000 Afghan papers from Kabul printing press before this weeks issue was released with another story about Idema and Team, including US and Afghan government documents reprinted proving Idema innocent. Karzai government issues arrest warrants for Newspaper Publisher!

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Background below.

The Kabul Times, Afghan News, and Cheragh Daily all have a circulation of about 500 to 1000 papers and usually contain between four to six pages. The Voice of Mujahadeen, with 24 pages and color printing throughout, is sweeping the country as the nation’s most sought after newspaper.

With another 24 pages in this edition and more than 20,000 papers printed and distributed in Afghanistan, the Voice of the Mujahadeen has already established itself as the largest paper in the country. According to government officials it is quickly becoming the most powerful paper in the country, already being credited with assisting the resignation of more than five Afghan officials, including the Minister of Interior Ahmad Ali Jalali and his spokesman, Lutfullah Mashal.

Voice of the Mujahadeen continues to be the largest paper printed since the fall of the Taliban, and the highest circulation of any paper in Afghanistan to date. This week’s edition contains fewer pages in English, which still appear to be aimed at US and coalition security forces.

The Taliban were driven into the south of Afghanistan by a US led coalition of Northern Alliance troops and US Special Forces soldiers. Northern Alliance military divisions which have still not submitted to the UN mandated demobilization or turned in weapons are threatening to action if Idema is not released voluntarily.

Afghanistan’s Voice of the Mujahadeen calls Idema and Team Mujahadeen Heroes on Day After Election

(9/19/05) Today’s Voice of the Mujahadeen has a two page spread written in the Farsi language with information never before revealed about the [Idema] case. It also features a prominent photo layout of Idema praying at National Hero Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud’s grave in the Panjshir and surrounded by photographs of Massoud taken throughout out his life.

Massoud was killed on September 9, 2001 by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorists just two days before the 9/11 attacks. The front cover of the paper shows Massoud’s picture from the front, and Idema’s back standing guard in an Afghan village.

MUJAHADEEN NEWSPAPER CALLS FOR SHINWARI RESIGNATION

Voice of the Mujahadeen Quickly Establishing Itself as the Largest and Highest Circulation Paper in the Country-

AFGHAN NEWSPAPER DEMANDS RELEASE OF GREEN BERET
CALLS IDEMA NATIONAL MUJAHADEEN HERO ON
DAY AFTER ELECTION

(9/20/05) FULL TEXT of Article
Kabul, Afghanistan
(AINA/Kabul News)

Voice of the Mujahadeen, an independent newspaper published by the Massoud Hero Foundation, and the Mujahadeen and Martyrs Group has called for the immediate release of Idema and his team and called them national heroes. The paper contains secret letters to President Hamid Karzai, pictures of Idema rescuing Afghan children, and an expose of the terrorists that Idema’s team captured.

Idema was charged with entering the country illegally, torture of innocent Afghan civilians, and running a private jail. On September 15, 2004 he was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years by a former Taliban judge in the Afghan Intelligence Court, formally the Taliban National Security Court. Judge Abdul Basset Bakhtyari has been called a war criminal by the United Nations in a special report on the Afghan justice system and the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights has twice called for his resignation and arrest.

In December 2004 all of the Afghans arrested with Idema were found innocent by the Appeals Court in a new trial after documents surfaced pro