Meatball sure is a demanding idiot; if not completely stupid; He sends me an email with no link about Fitzgerald’s grandstanding and using a document he claims is ‘unclassified’ that isn’t dated, during the sentencing phase of Libby’s farce of a trial:

An unclassified CIA employment summary for Valerie Plame was released yesterday, and it confirms that she was covert at the time her identity as a CIA operative was revealed.

You’ve claimed that she was not covert. Will you be posting a retraction of your claim?

Many thanks…

mb

No, I will not be posting a retraction, particularly since you can google up any number of lefty blogs whose writers think this is news. Here are a few links, anyway…Newsweek (hello, remember the Koran flushing story?), Washington Monthly

But I sincerely doubt that any of these people will ‘post a retraction, either:

Neil Boortz:

1.) Valerie Plame was not a covert agent and revealing her name was not a crime. Sorry, but being a desk jockey at the CIA doesn’t qualify you to be the next James Bond. Besides, there is evidence to suggest her identity was an open secret.

2.) Given #1, telling someone her name was not a crime. So Cheney is off the hook. So much for that.

What you’re likely to see is Fitzgerald indicting Rove or Libby based on their grand jury testimony for perjury or obstruction of justice. Even that is a stretch….the special prosecutor would have to prove that they lied on purpose. Remember, it’s only a lie if you know the statement was untrue at the time you made it.

Or Ben Johnson,

In 2000, Plame used her CIA name (“Ms. Valerie E. Wilson”) – and disclosed her home address – while making a $1,000 donation to Al Gore’s presidential campaign, listing her job as an “Analyst” at “Brewster-Jennings & Associates.” Following the apparently legal “leak,” terrorists may have known her name but not her face. This she quickly remedied. Although Joe Wilson told NBC’s Tim Russert, “my wife…would rather chop off her right arm than say anything to the press, and she will not allow herself to be photographed,” she promptly posed for Vanity Fair, followed by a number of additional poses and glamour shots.

or

Andrew McCarthy

Have you heard that the CIA is actually the source responsible for exposing Plame’s covert status? Not Karl Rove, not Bob Novak, not the sinister administration cabal du jour of Fourth Estate fantasy, but the CIA itself? Had you heard that Plame’s cover has actually been blown for a decade — i.e., since about seven years before Novak ever wrote a syllable about her? Had you heard not only that no crime was committed in the communication of information between Bush administration officials and Novak, but that no crime could have been committed because the governing law gives a person a complete defense if an agent’s status has already been compromised by the government?

or

Ann Coulter

It was not a crime to reveal Valerie Plame’s name because she was not a covert agent. If it had been a crime, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald could have wrapped up his investigation with an indictment of the State Department’s Richard Armitage on the first day of his investigation since it was Armitage who revealed her name and Fitzgerald knew it.

Art Moore or Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely

A retired Army general says the man at the center of the CIA leak controversy, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, revealed his wife Valerie Plame’s employment with the agency in a casual conversation more than a year before she allegedly was “outed” by the White House through a columnist.

Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told WorldNetDaily that Wilson mentioned Plame’s status as a CIA employee over the course of at least three, possibly five, conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel’s “green room” in Washington, D.C., as they waited to appear on air as analysts.

Or Robert Novak:

Had not Plame been outed years ago by a Soviet agent? Was she not on an administrative, not operational, track at Langley? How could she be covert if, in public view, she drove to work each day at Langley? What about comments to me by then CIA spokesman Bill Harlow that Plame never would be given another foreign assignment? What about testimony to the FBI that her CIA employment was common knowledge in Washington?

Yes, the Soviet agent’s name was Aldrich Ames, that happened in 1997 (or before see below), yes, Bob, she was on an administrative track at Langley, and yes, Bob, CIA Spokesman Bill Harlow said she’d never get another foreign assignment, and it was common knowledge on the DC cocktail circuit that she was not covert.

SHE WAS NOT COVERT.

Many thanks for what, meatball? Here again, Meatball presents us with another example of his poorly worded, poorly gathered ‘factoids’ which are merely turds from the floor of the conspiracy theorists at the Daily Kos; another argumentum ad hominem (a personal attack on me) when he says ‘you’ve claimed that she was not covert’.

Um, Meatball, do you ever see me post anything without referring to someone else with a link- or some other fact with a link - or without including a link, like you did in your email? You’re all about semantics, hyperbole and linguistics - rhetorical arguments which don’t mean squat. I’m about referring to actual people who know what’s going on, people like Bob Novak and Victoria Toensing.

Let’s go through some more quotes from people more intelligent and well-versed in these matters than I. Plame was outted in 1997 (or before -see below-) by Aldrich Ames. She was moved to a desk job after that, ‘for her own safety’. For meatheads with no brains, that means she was taken ‘out of the field’.

As I said in this post from March 20, read When and Why Joe Wilson IV Outted Valerie Plame at Sweetness and Light, What Joe Wilson’s Lies Have Wrought at Rightwing Nuthouse, numerous articles by Clarice Feldman, an attorney in Washington, at the American Thinker on the Libby affair and its injustice, and do me a favor. Bugger off.

Fitzgerald’s bringing this up during the sentencing phase of Libby’s trial is hardly a ’significant gotcha’. It should be, to the sentient being, an embarrassment to how far the American Courts have turned into a virtual string of Kangaroo courts and the prosecutor get to say anything he wants irregardless of the facts presented.

What was Libby convicted of? It wasn’t for violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, it was for perjury, which is still doubtful considering the surrounding facts and hyperbole by the leftists who are so desperate to take down the administration. Remember, their target was originally Karl Rove and Dick Cheney on this thing, and they must be horribly disappointed in how it’s turned out thus far.

This isn’t the CIA declassifying evidence. This is smoke and mirrors by a desperate attorney who hasn’t scored Libby any jailtime with his hysteria.

Victoria Toensing was the Senate negotiator for the “Identities Protection Act of 1982″, and helped Congress craft it. In the Wall Street Journal, she said “I also know that covert officers are not assigned to Langley,” as Valerie Plame was at the time this all occurred. Victoria Toensing wrote a piece at NRO, entitled “Does the Libby Verdict Have Appeal? Making Sense of Legal Nonsense” and she says in part:

The court permitted Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to refer to Valerie Plame as being “covert” or having a “classified” job throughout trial and specifically during closing argument. Neither of those highly prejudicial characterizations was proven at trial. Even if Plame’s job were “classified,” as Fitzgerald reiterated in his press conference after conviction, there is no criminal violation in publishing her name. That legal gap is why Congress passed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in 1982.

Now. With all of that out of the way, Al Johnson has a piece up at the American Thinker dated yesterday, discussing Fitgerald’s lengthy PDf file, and how the ridiculous allegation of ‘outing a covert agent’ who’d been outted already by Aldrich Ames in 1997 - won’t die, and just keeps morphing into new and weird forms.

The document that Fitzgerald came up with alleges that Plame was a “covert” employee of the CIA for purposes of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (IIPA, 50 U.S.C. §§ 421-426 ). This is manipulation of definitions. Of the 30 pages in the pdf file, all but three are a transcript of Plame’s testimony before Rep. Henry Waxman’s personal dog and pony show–the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

In spite of that, though, Victoria Toensing testified in that circus sideshow under oath.

Victoria Toensing is the attorney who drafted the IIPA. She, too, testified before Waxman’s committee, and she had handy the Senate Report on the IIPA, that spelled out what the Act was intended to cover. Referring to page 16 of the Senate Report Toensing stated (under oath): “Notably, the legislation limited coverage of U.S. citizen informants or sources (agents) also to situations where they “reside and act outside the United States.” Toensing then quoted Joe Wilson’s (self) absorbing autobiography to show that Plame had returned to the US in 1997 and had never “resided and acted” overseas again.

That should be the end of it, but nooooo. These people can’t let it go.

In essence, in the sentencing phase of this trial, Fitzgerald is attempting to turn the tables on the ‘perjury’ conviction, and instead tries very hard to make this seem as though Libby had been found in violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, which he wasn’t able to prove in court, even though he was allowed to use that verbiage in the proceedings, which in itself is outrageous.

Fitzgerald has, not surprisingly, adamantly refused to release the actual Referral Memo, and has instead played a sly “hide the ball” game when it comes to the issue of Plame and the IIPA–seeming to equate “covert” and “classified,” and so forth. (Johnson, 2007)

Read the rest of Al Johnson’s analysis at the American Thinker.

The New York Times Nicholas Kristof explained; “The C.I.A. suspected that Aldrich Ames had given Mrs. Wilson’s name (along with those of other spies) to the Russians before his espionage arrest in 1994.”

Source

bwahahahaha!

Seems as though Fitgerald has changed his tune since 2005 when he said…”"Let me say two things, I am not speaking [in this indictment] to whether or not Valerie Wilson was covert . . . And we have not made any allegation that Mr. Libby knowingly or intentionally outed a covert agent.”

This is a great clip of the Kabul Deputy Governor, talking about the first trial of Jack Idema in Afghanistan. He states that the US Consul, Russell Brown, and Bashir Mamoon, forced the ‘guilty’ verdict on the orders of Zalmay Khalilzad, who was America’s then-Ambassador to Afghanistan.

At the end of the clip, Commander Massoud speaks.

This is a clip from the movie made in Dubai called Shakur Shaitan. This clip published with complete permission from the attorneys, CTG, HaftShir Films and 5 Lions Films.

The Justice For Jack Idema Blogburst

US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema remains trapped in a legal-limbo of his own government’s making, denied access to his own passport and, hence, the means to return home. While this situation continues to play out in the US courtroom of Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, however, the past week has seen some truly startling revelations coming out of Afghanistan itself.

[The following clips come from a Dubai-made movie about the Idema case, Shakur Shaitan. All the footage is used with permission from the attorneys, CTG, HaftShir Films and 5 Lions Films. Translations start scrolling at the bottom of the clips after a few seconds.]

Unlike MSM, it seems as though the journalists responsible for putting this film together have actually stirred themselves to investigate the question of Jack’s innocence. In doing so, they spoke with some of the major Afghan players in the case.

Here’s Judge Noor, who is a Religious Judge in the NDS Appeals Court, Chief of all religious judges in the Afghan National Security Courts, and the Chief of Religious Affairs and Courts for the Second Makima. So, definitely no minor functionary:

Next up, we have Judge Noor’s superior at the NDS appeals court, Judge Abed, who also insists that Jack Idema was never guilty of any crimes:

… And Judge Azizullah, who not only states that Jack was innocent, but points the finger of blame squarely at the US State Department:

Clearly bemused as to why the US would go to such extreme lengths to illegally-imprison their own countrymen, Judge Azizullah states:

The problem was not inside the Afghan government it was with the Americans. We really don’t understand the truth. Why they put innocent men in prison.

In the strangest twist of all, however, the fourth Judge to talk about Idema’s innocence is none other than Sidiq; the Afghan Supreme Court justice Jack’s team arrested in 2004. At the time of his capture, Sidiq was found in possession of explosive detonators, Hezb-i-Islami membership cards and a letter of introduction from none other than Mullah Omar. Still, if Jack and his team had been torturing the men they arrested in 2004, Sidiq would surely take the opportunity to speak out about this. Instead, he does exactly the
opposite:

Note to the US State Department in Afghanistan: Since even Jack’s alleged ‘victims’ are now stating that that, “There was no torture, we never saw, not beating, not slapping, not even a pinch. NOTHING”, now might be a good time to give Jack Idema his passport and allow him to return home, and to stop whining and complaining to embassies in other countries that he’s ‘dangerous’.

So what can we do? Well, anyone reading this with their own blog can sign up for the weekly Free Jack Idema Blogburst by emailing Cao or Rottweiler Puppy for details. I’d urge everyone to do this, as we’re still terribly short on takers. If you want to know more about the story, Cao’s Blog has a large section devoted to Jack Idema. There’s also a timeline here, and, of course, a
huge amount of information is available over at SuperPatriots, without whose work none of us would have learned about Jack’s story.

You should also contact the following people and make your feelings known, especially to write letters of complaint about this despicable situation:

Secret US EMBASSY Fax: - 301-560-5729
(Local US Fax: Goes RIGHT TO Ambassador)
c/o US Ambassador Ronald Neuman
US Embassy- Afghanistan
6180 Kabul Place
Dulles, VA 20189-6180

US Consul Edward Birsner- number yet unknown
US Embassy Translator Wahid - 011-93-70201902
US Embassy Asst Consul Bashir Momman- 011-93-70201923
US Consul (friend) Dawn Schrepel- 011-93-70201908 (Fired)

Ambassador Massoud Khalili
(wounded with Massoud)
(Great and Kind man)
Islamic State of Afghanistan
Embassy of Afghanistan
Ankara, Turkey

Mr. Jahed Hamrah, Consul General (pro-Taliban)
CONSULATE GENERAL OF
AFGHANISTAN IN NEW YORK
360 Lexington Avenue,
11th Floor New York,
New, York, NY 10017
Tel.: (212) 972-2276 or 972-2277
Fax: (212) 972-9046

Chairman Peter Hoekstra
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
H-405, U.S. Capitol
Washington, DC 20515-6415;
Office: 202-225-4121 / Fax: 202-225-1991
Toll Free: (877) 858-9040

M. Cherif BASSIOUNI
Independent Expert of the Commission on Human Rights
On the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
UNOG-OHCHR
CH-1211 Geneva 10
Ph: +41(0)22 917 97 27 Fax: +41(0)22 917 90 18

Senator Steven Saland (Jack’s Rep and Neighbor)
9 Jonathan Lane
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Senator Elizabeth Dole (Jack’s Rep)
United States Senate
555 Dirksen Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Ph: 202-224.6342
Fax: 202-224.1100

Senator Richard Burr (Interested)
United States Senate
217 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3154 / Fax: 202-228-2981

Senator Bill Nelson (in the fight on Jack’s Side)
United States Senate
Hart Senate Office Building
Room 716
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5274 / Fax: 202-228-2183
FL Fax 407-872-7165

Senator Dianne Feinstein (Bennett’s Representative)
United States Senate
Hart Office Building, Room 331
Washington, D.C. 20510
202-224-3841

Representative Mike McIntyre (Jack’s Representative)
United States Congress
2437 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-2731 / Fax 202-225-5773

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Reference Captain Bennett- CA citizen)
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841 / Fax: 916-445-4633

Finally, PLEASE NOTE: The SuperPatriots and Jack images
on this site are used with WRITTEN COPYRIGHT PERMISSION and any use
by any third party is subject to legal action by SuperPatriots.US

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There’s a nice little spin on this headline: American convict decides to stay in Afghan jail despite president’s pardon

Don’t you just love it. “American Convict”. How about “political prisoner”? That’s what he is, according to the Afghans. Who exactly is categorizing him as an “American convict”? He wasn’t convicted of anything. As a matter of fact, they still don’t have a copy of what the charges were, even though there were Americans standing as defense counsel present during the first trial. Robert Fogelnest, Ed Caraballo’s attorney, said at an interview at Democracy Now that he’d like to know what those charges were, even though he took that trip to Afghanistan and sat at the trial, nobody knew what was going on, and there was no translation given to the Americans so they COULD understand what was going on. No defense witnesses were allowed to be called, and the evidence was removed from the evidence room, although Skibbie embarrassed them to return some of it. In short, it was a sham of a ‘trial’, and they used the news reports as evidence instead of calling witnesses. Now think about how ridiculous that is when you go through the following.

Even though Matt Apuzzo, who’d dealt Idema and his situation a fair hand with a previous article, supposedly contributed to this report, it doesn’t sound very accurate to me, and I’ll explain the reasons why, and link to some of the posts here, including videos of one of the alleged ‘torture’ victims, as I walk through it. Let’s set the record straight here; Apuzzo never saw the final story, in fact, he was upset about it. The guy that wrote it, it turns out, is Jason Straziuso who showed up at Pulacharke to see Jack last week and Jack had his Northern Alliance soldiers throw him out. Poor Jason. No pics, no big interview.

The AP should know better after all the false reporting they’ve done over the last three years on this story, but then, they have a certain ideology they can’t seem to stray very far from; adoring the terrorists, and putting down American forces. And additional news about Jason, hot off the Kabul pipeline: it turns out that Jason’s translator is a guy named Amir Shah, a former Taliban Ministry member, who wrote the first garbage from Mashal and Jalali, that people were hanging upside down the basement of a house that had no basement. Where are those pictures, people? Because they sure would have taken them if any of this had happened, and they would have been broadcast it all over the news, and all over the internet, just like the Abu Ghraib photos.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - An American citizen imprisoned in Afghanistan for running a private jail for terror suspects has a new passport.

The passport was delivered only after a Federal Judge threatened them, and after destroying his old official one, after they sent out letters blocking visas to every single destination he could go to.

It’s true he was “An American imprisoned”, but it should probably read “An illegally imprisoned American”, because they were repeatedly declared innocent of what the press was convicting them of–’torturing innocent Afghans’, but the American government time and again forced their hand in numerous ways in order to keep Idema sitting there. And now, there are videos of every single Judge, saying so. Look here, and here, just for starters, or look at the list of Jack Idema posts here, which grows day by day, and week by week as this thing continues to drag on and unfold, and as reporters do their best to obfuscate the real situation, with the help of Taliban informants.

As far as torture, there is evidence out in plain sight that it was Idema and his team, including the Afghans who were with him, who were tortured early on:

And this is the tip of the iceberg as far as the extent of their injuries. The trial was postponed in order for their injuries to heal and become less visible to the press; and few in the press reported a word about it, even though they looked as though they’d suffered considerably. In Fact, the New York Times reporter, Carlotta Gall, saw Idema bleeding and barely able to see, and never reported a word of it.

When you consider that they’ve lost teeth because of their beatings (Bennett 8, Idema 2), Idema had severe burns from their pouring boiling water on his crotch, torn rotator cuffs and two detached retinas, among other injuries, and the press didn’t report a word of it, it just adds to the mounting evidence that the press is just spreading terrorist propaganda for the enemy.

As far as ‘for running a private jail for terrorist suspects’, that is also disingenuous, because there were 40 other safehouses just like Jack’s, in and around Kabul where people were doing the same thing, and turning the terror suspects over to Bagram AFB.

Plus, ‘for running a private jail’ is a little odd, since, as Ed Caraballo’s lawyer said at Democracy Now, they never saw what the charges were; and if somebody has seen them, Fogelnest said he would like them sent to him so he could them! Even after sitting in court, he didn’t ever find out what the charges actually were.

Now, whether or not Idema actually has a passport in his possession is another matter. You see, he technically has a passport now, but it’s no good. First, they refused to return his original passport, because it might be embarrassing for them, so they made him sign for a new one. He wrote a book on the passport form he had to sign, including refusing to swear the oath because he still held a military rank in the United Front. Imagine that, they gave him a passport? Must be a first in history!

The Embassy is saying, in essence, ‘you’re free to go’, ‘you’ve been issued a passport, but hey, we wrote letters to all the foreign embassys objecting to his travel visas, saying he is ‘dangerous’, so just try to leave! So that’s going to ‘help’ a lot, isn’t it?

And I have to ask, exactly who, other than Osama Bin Laden, is Idema a danger to, exactly? Is he a danger to himself? No. Is he a danger to the Embassy? No, he’s trying to get out of there. Is he a danger to terrorists? Under the right circumstances, I suppose he is, but I don’t suppose with all the security today in airports that he’s going to be able to carry a loaded kalishkov or live grenades or molotov cocktails onto the plane.

Oh, I get it, he’s a danger to Bin Laden, Mullah Omar and Gulbideen Hekmatyar! That must be who they’re protecting!

His dog has been vaccinated for overseas travel. But two months after being freed by presidential decree, Jack Idema remains in his Afghan cell.

Yes, that is true, the dog has been vaccinated. But the agencies and governments involved (and I assume entities behind the curtain also) keep inventing new things that are required for Nina to travel, with no notice. They’ve threatened that if Nina doesn’t have what is required, (and the requirements change from day to day, it seems), she will be destroyed. Let’s not forget that Jack told a Federal Judge if they kill the dog, they’d better kill him first. And, it was the Afghan Generals that helped get the dog ready to travel. The US, instead of helping, did everything to block it.

So as far as I know, Nina is being blocked from travel, and Idema only got his passport after considerable drama, and a US Federal Judge’s intervention on this monkey business; the end result is-he can’t get a travel visa to any country that is accessible from Kabul, thanks again to the US Embassy.

The reasons why, like most of Idema’s dramatic personal story, are murky and complicated. They include a visa dispute and a compensation claim by one of his victims.

This story is not ‘murky and complicated’, if you’ve been following it. It is really very simple: The US Government is determined to see that Idema doesn’t leave Pulacharke, not to mention Afghanistan, even though the Afghans have freed him.

The Afghans freed him and declared him innocent many times before the March date that the AP cites-I know for a fact his release was secretly ordered by the Afghans on January 7, 2007, without the US knowing. The US Embassy has tried numerous times to send people in to take Idema to another prison cell in handcuffs, under the same conditions as Bennett; in handcuffs and with nothing but what he is wearing - but luckily, apparently they haven’t convinced the Marines to start shooting at him yet.

The ‘visa dispute’ and ‘compensation’ claim by Sidiq are both stupid and are allegations, not facts. The only dispute is between Jack and his own government; and they’re doing everything within their power to see that he doesn’t return any time soon.

They also involve documents that Idema says would finally prove his claim that he was a hired mercenary hunting al-Qaida suspects on a mission sanctioned by U.S. counterterrorism officials _ a claim that American authorities have denied.

The US Government wants Idema to leave, just like Bennett did, with the clothes on his back - because they’re determined to find those documents. Are they out of their minds? Do they honestly think Idema is going to let those things just lie around for these people to confiscate?

As far as a ‘hired mercenary’, no one has proven that Idema accepted a dime for what he was doing. He has repeatedly said that he has paid for this with his own money and served in the Northern Alliance as an unpaid officer. This puts him in a better light than the Flying Tigers and everyone called them heroes! The rules, according to the Geneva Conventions, about a mercenary, leave Idema out of the mercenary category; these AP writers should do their homework before they spread lies like this. Perhaps the government is hoping that they can use press reports in the court cases against him to prove that he is not what he’s always claimed to be. Oops, guess what? The government is already circulating the AP report as their evidence, because they’re too smart to file sworn affadavits!

But all evidence that I’ve seen, including court documents and affadavits from Afghans, point to another conclusion.

Idema’s Afghan lawyer and prison officials say Idema could be just days away from leaving the country. But Idema, a former Green Beret from Fayetteville, North Carolina, has appeared in no hurry to quit a prison cell that by local standards is top of the line.

His self-described prison «suite,» has its own kitchen, a private bathroom, couches, rugs, TV, Internet access and a small staff. He is also friendly with prison guards aligned with the Northern Alliance, the coalition of anti-Taliban militias that helped the U.S. drive the hardline militia from power in late 2001.

«He is allowed to keep a dog, weapons and a cook. Why? Because the anti-Taliban factions of the Afghan government have never, not once, considered him a prisoner, but a temporary guest,» Idema’s U.S. lawyer, John E. Tiffany, said in a recent court filing.

This is something that really galls his detractors; because it proves once again that he’s who he’s always said he was, and that he is not guilty of having done anything except capture real terrorists. Think about it. More than 35 high-ranking Afghan officials have already signed affadavits and letters to this effect, most of which have been entered in the courts. The AP has access to this information, yet they continue to cherry pick what it is they say about all of this in order to paint an unfavorable picture of Idema. In fact, no journalist has ever quoted any Afghan Government Official Affadavit against the US Embassy, although they are numerous, and lengthy.

Afghan former Taliban Judges were bribed by the United States government with cars and vacations to keep Idema there, and the US government hasn’t answered Idema’s Habeas Corpus petition in over three years, even though the Afghans have released him numerous times. There have been more than 17 attempts by Al Qaeda on their lives, that have left more than a dozen dead, Bin Laden has a price on Idema’s head, and that by itself should tell you something, IF NOT VOLUMES.

His connections in the Afghan government go all the way to the palace, and as it said in one affadavit, he is considered to be part of Commander Massoud’s family. Referencing “Kingdom of Heaven”, if you really understood what was going on in Afghanistan and the middle east in regards to Islam, you would realize that this is a very important position to be in, and the reason why Jack can walk through a crowd of Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists on Pulacharke’s grounds, and they all give him visible signs of respect. This is worrying to the American government, which seems to be clueless on how to successfully fight this war.

In one of the scenes in Kingdom of Heaven, it is sure that Bloom’s character is going to be killed as Bloom’s character brings a small group of men to fight Salahidin’s enormous army; it appears as though they’re consciously moving to be slaughtered. But Salahidin’s forces spare his life.

The concept applies in the story of Jack Idema at Pulacharke.

Idema is one of three U.S. citizens arrested in July 2004 and imprisoned at Policharki prison for abducting several Afghans and holding them in a makeshift jail in Kabul. Brent Bennet, another former soldier, was released last September, as was freelance journalist Edward Caraballo, who was filming their activities, in May 2006.

That would be Ed Caraballo, the four time Emmy-award winning journalist, who the Committee to Protect Journalists did nothing about, even though Peter Bergen and others say that Ed was simply blameless; he was just documenting what they were doing. He was not just filming their activities, but doing a story on the Northern Alliance with the consent and approval of the US Department of Defense.

As I said above, there were at least 40 others like Jack’s safehouse in Kabul where terrorists were being questioned before being turned over to Bagram.

Idema’s detention is just the latest episode in a personal history that includes three years in U.S. jail for fraud in the 1980s. He claims to have fought with Northern Alliance forces against the Taliban and was featured in a book about the Afghan war called «Task Force Dagger: The Hunt for bin Laden.»

That’s kind of funny, too, that they would keep bringing up the wire fraud charges. The principles in that case were let go and allowed to keep the material. Idema was charged as an ‘accessory, but if it really was a crime, why were the principles let go? Here is the true story about the wire fraud charges. Oh, and claimed to be working with the Northern Alliance. Now that’s funny, considering hundreds of released pictures of him leading and advising Northern Alliance Soldiers and carrying an NA Military Advisor ID Card.

Some of the Afghans Idema imprisoned in 2004 claimed they were beaten and their heads held under water. However, Idema says he never mistreated prisoners and the prosecution offered scant evidence at his sometimes chaotic Kabul trial, where he wore khakis and sunglasses and was initially sentenced to ten years in jail.

“some of the Afghans Idema imprisoned in 2004 claimed…” That’s interesting, none of the ‘witnesses’ testified to this at the trial, not a single one, so who are they? Who are these unnamed people the press is claiming that Idema beat and waterboarded? THE THREE TERRORISTS THAT GAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE?

Here’s what the high profile Taliban Judge Sidiq, admitted Deputy to the Wanted Terrorist, Gulbideen Hekmatyar said on an undercover tape:

I am talking as the delegation of 8 people. Now, if you want, without any requirement, I am ready to announce everywhere that Jack was blamed for torturing us, but we were in one room, and we never saw anyone tortured by him, 7 people were together, there was no torture, we never saw, not beating, not slapping, not even a pinch. NOTHING. We never saw this, but they lied. We were completely fine.

Sidiq was found with documents connecting him to Mullah Omar and Hekmatyar on his person, plus explosives, and a taxi that tested positive for explosives by ISAF, and in spite of his visible position as a Supreme Court Judge, that didn’t mean he was an ‘innocent Afghan’.

Jalali and Mashal also said he was ‘arresting people with long beards’. Only 3 of the 11 that Idema and his team captured had long beards.

Idema told The Associated Press by cell phone from Policharki that it might be hard for people to understand why he has remained after President Hamid Karzai’s decree in late March that freed him.

Idema says he never said that, because Karzai was not the one who freed him.

But he said he risked arrest by Afghan intelligence agents and that departing would harm his chances of recovering documents, tapes and computer files that show his alleged relationship with U.S. officials.

Idema says he did not say that. He said ‘by the NDS guys that were working for the Embassy.’ And perhaps they are worried about his ‘recovering documents, tapes and computer files’, and this is why they are going through all the mail that is coming and going from Pulacharke?

«My car is parked outside right now,» Idema said. «I could drive through the Policharki gates right now. Then what happens? I get arrested. (The intelligence service) will arrest me for not having an Afghan visa and they’ll torture me and kill me. If I’m lucky, I’m only going to be tortured.»

He said the Embassy and the NDS. The AP ignored the two sworn statements filed in Federal Court in which Afghan officials said that was the NDS/US Embassy plan.

The actual documents were ordered to be returned by Amrullah Saleh; but the Embassy has stood in the way of those documents being returned to him.

A U.S. federal judge in April said the United States had to respond to a lawsuit by Idema alleging that the State Department and FBI illegally kept him imprisoned, directed his torture and destroyed evidence. Idema said he has audio recordings and documents to back up his claims.

Well, Idema wasn’t bluffing or lying like the US Embassy, because some of those audio recordings are available here.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul responded by saying that since Idema had been freed by Karzai, his claims no longer had merit.

That isn’t exactly true. Idema has been declared innocent by the Afghans, not simply ‘pardoned’. And his claims DO have merit, because even though the Afghans issued an order to have his original documents, property, passport and equipment returned, the US Government is denying him that right.

«Mr. Idema’s habeas claim is moot because his criminal sentence has expired and because his continued presence in Policharki prison is due to his refusal to leave without his personal belongings,» the U.S. said in a court filing.

Again, smoke and mirrors! The Embassy has the passport and blocked hiim from getting visas from any other country that you can reach from Kabul, and ordered the NDS to seize him and what he has, including Nina, at the airport! Too bad for them, he got tipped off first.

The U.S. said it has secured Idema a passport and helped him with travel information for him and Nina, a dog that Bennet had adopted. Idema, who is insisting on taking the animal with him, said it had received shots so that it could travel.

Idema’s Afghan lawyer, Rahim Ahmadzai, said Idema also wants US$500,000 (¤372,000) of equipment _ computers, cameras and weapons _ and a special passport returned from the Afghan government.

Interesting how he would wind up with all of that when he entered Pulacharke with just the clothes on his back. How do you supposed he got into the most notorious prison in the world with nothing, and has ended up with that much property in a foreign land?

Hey, it’s even better than that, the $500k in property is the military equipment he had before he was arrested, it doesn’t include what he has with him now. Riiight. This guy is a wannabee mercenary poser. Not even in an alternative universe could line of BS that make any sense.

Doesn’t this make one think that something else is amiss here?

«Jack’s attitude is he wants compensation for that, otherwise he doesn’t care if he has to spend the next 10 years in prison,» said Ahmadzai.

Another issue has been compensation demanded by one of the men Idema held in his prison.

The man, a senior judge called Sadiq, had originally wanted US$13,000 (¤9,700) in compensation, but told the AP that he gave Idema a letter on Friday forgiving him.

Sidiq wants bribe money. And why not? He’s seen people end up with cars and vacations, paid for by the US Government; people in Afghanistan can just pay a judge a bribe and walk out of jail, no matter what their crimes. Sidiq already got a car from the Embassy, but now he wants the taxi paid for that ISAF seized and blew up on the explosives range. Too funny! Sidiq is right, we should be reimbursing the terrorists for the explosives and bombs we take from them so they can go out and buy more!

Afghan law, as Fogelnest (Caraballo’s one time lawyer) said at Democracy Now, is new. Their constitution is new. Experienced judges go by the same rules they did when they were under the soviets; which is basically like a kangaroo court under Saddam Hussein. Fogelnest actually studied up on it so he could teach lawyers and judges what their laws are, and went over to Afghanistan with a grant to help them improve their legal system.

«Because I’m an Afghan Muslim, I forgive all these things,» said Sadiq, who goes by one name. «I’m not his enemy, he’s not my enemy.»

Huh. That’s new, because before the AP called him Mulawi Sidiq, and before that, he was Mullah Sidiq, and now he just wants to be “Mr. Sidiq”, the poor victim.

Abdul Salam Ismat, a senior Afghan justice official, said compensation claims usually cannot keep someone jailed.

Compensation claims is not what this is about.

«For us, he’s completely free. He’s not a prisoner. But Mr. Idema’s story is that he’s safer inside Policharki, so he’s staying there,» Ismat said. «We could have kicked him out on the street after he was pardoned, but that might not have been well received by the international community.»

General Salam Ismat is not a Judge. He is a Northern Alliance General in the Ministry of Justice, who said something far different than that in defense of Jack, including how Jack helped save his village, and was put in writing by a Lieutenant General (stay tuned because it’s on its way to Cao’s blog in the next few days).

He’s completely free, without a valid travel passport, because he can’t get a visa anywhere, and he has to forfeit by force everything except what he is wearing. So all claims regarding that point are ridiculous obfuscation and lies.

The US Consul told Jack to give up, leave Nina and his property because it wasn’t worth dying for. I can’t actually quote Jack’s response, it was full of swear words.

I’ll probably be returning to this subject along the way, I’ve written about it before, but now I’m writing a paper on this for one of my classes at Axia.

An article entitled “The Feminist Assault on our Military by David Horowitz, from National Review Online, October 5, 1992 illustrates how it came about.

There are many purposes behind the feminists’ efforts to restructure the military, but you can be sure that greater national security is not one of them.

Naturally, national security is something leftists are aiming to completely destroy, which I talked about on this post about the ACLU.

David Horowitz spells it out very clearly in this article: Democrat feminist Pat Schroeder, a feminist legislator on the Armed Services Committee at the time, was an anti-war activist before entering the House. Her lobbying was one of the reasons that more people paid a price for Tailhook than should have in a reasonable world. Read the rest of his article for more on that, because I’m going in a slightly different direction here. It was the beginning, however, of America’s military kow towing to political correctness and the set up creating a social experiment; for gender norming and changing physical test requirements to accommodate women in the military, in part.

Horowitz makes an interesting admission in this article which should be very telling about the leftist anti-war radicals of today:

When New Left radicals, like myself, launched the movement against the war in Vietnam, we did not say we wanted the Communists to win—which we did. We said we wanted to bring the troops home, which accomplished our objective: the Communists won. With disastrous consequences for Vietnam and the world.

Examples of this kind of double agenda abound in the current feminist campaign and can be found in testimony before the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. Maria Lepowsky, a professor of Women’s Studies, provided the commissioners with data to support a combat role for women. Then Professor Lepowsky asked herself: “What would be some possible consequences …. if women were put in combat—on American cultural values and American society … ?” She answered her own question: “I think there might be increased concern about committing troops to combat, also perhaps a good thing.”

In other words, Professor Lepowsky was advocating that women be put in combat roles because to do so would make it more difficult to commit troops to combat. Now this is a kind of candor that is unusual for the Left.

Emphasis mine. Radical feminism has slowly taken a foothold in America’s military warrior culture, for the sake of a sense of ‘equality’ that will never be reached.

Chicks rule! For proof of that, just look at the movies coming out of Hollywood, or ask Rosie O’Donnell. GI Jane, Lara Croft, Kill Bill, Mr. And Mrs. Smith help alter the old perceptions of women we previously might have considered mothers and homemakers.

Jessica Lynch, a 19-year-old file clerk, was assigned convoy duty in Iraq, and the convoy was attacked by a group of Saddam’s Fayedeen, notorious in Iraq for their cruelty, a killing squad. Lynch barely survived. Her friends, Lori Piestewa and Shoshona Johnson, who were cooks, didn’t.

“In the case of Pvt. Jessica Lynch, a different motivation was involved. It was not only the families of the female soldiers in the 507th Maintenance Company who were shocked that they would be placed in harms way. The disgust and horror that Americans in their living rooms registered when they found out that women were being killed, captured, and possibly tortured by the Iraqis would redound harshly on those who were responsible for placing America’s women at risk in a combat zone. Not only was America sending women into a combat zone, but two were single mothers with toddler children. America would be outraged at this situation. Who would be held responsible? Not just the radical feminists, but the senior military officers, congressmen and women, and Executive Branch civilians who had implemented the Clintons’ agenda to ‘feminize’ our armed forces would feel the wrath of the American people for what happened to Pvt. Jessica Lynch.

A way had to be found to ‘fuzz’ the realization that our female soldiers were being killed, captured and possibly tortured in Iraq. The way out was to immediately create a myth - the myth of the Modern American War Hero.” (Atkinson, 2003)

Michael Spann’s injuries from his torture in Afghanistan in comparison to what we know of Lynch’s injuries sustained in Iraq, and the similarities are striking.(Atkinson, 2003)

“Spann’s body would bear out the worst of the rumors - he had been captured alive and tortured by the AQ. Both of his legs had been broken below the knees in a typical al Qaida torture method. What was not reported was that he had been alive for quite some time after. Two bullets had been placed in the small of his back, on either side of his spine.” (Moore, 2003)

Jessica Lynch’s injuries were very similar to those of Johnny Spann. The Marines found a torture chamber in the basement of the first hospital she’d been held captive in for ‘lying’. Her legs were broken in four places, a customary method of torture by Saddam’s Fedayeen.(Atkinson, 2003)
The American public should be made fully aware of the implications; even if a soldier’s military occupational specialty is that of a file clerk (as Lynch’s was), or a cook, as Johnson and Piestewa were, or any other support MOS, their lives could end up unnecessarily at risk because of disastrous policies to further the feminist agenda.

Although studies show that the average woman is a fraction of the size of a man, and her total body strength is 60% or so of that of a man (Fleck and Kraemer, 2004), if a woman like Lynch were in a position where she had to pull a 180-lb man out of a humvee wreck with his 25-pound body armor, and his 75-pound battle rattle and another 25 pounds of communication gear, could she do it? Lynch measures just 5’4” tall and weighs in at 100-pounds.

Gender differences are acknowledged in sports like football, competitive weightlifting, and construction crews, but have been totally wiped out of existence when it comes to the military. The ‘combat exclusion rule’, which began during the Clinton administration in 1993, meant that woman can now be assigned to combat aviation and ships, as well as ‘high risk jobs’ near combat zones. Gender norming helped lower the standards on physical tests in order to accommodate women.

The military’s purpose is to defend our nation from enemies both foreign and domestic. We should not allow the cultural Marxist forces to further corrupt it in an attempt to carry out their counter-culture revolution.

“Like Marxism, feminism can explain everything from advertising to religion by following its single thread, the oppression of women.” (Iannone, 1989)

This concept reduces military readiness and our capability of winning wars.

References

Atkinson, Gerald, “Private Jessica Lynch’s Army: The Clinton Legacy”, July, 2003 retrieved on May 27, 2007 from http://www.newtotalitarians.com/JessicaLynchsArmy.html

Iannone, C. “The Feminist Confusion,” Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties eds. Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1989), P. 149.

Moore, Robin, “The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger, On the Ground with the Special Forces in Afghanistan, Random House, pp. 173, 2003.

Jack and Mullah Mujahed were at Pulacharke prison together, and ended up not only speaking, but eating together and sending each other food. This is a very rare picture, as there are very few pictures of Mullah Mujahed out there. Mujahed and Idema had been tortured and starved together at the Saderat extreme torture facility. Mujahed shared his own food with the Americans.

During Jack’s numerous meetings with the notorious General, Mullah Mujahed, who has 200,000 or more Taliban terrorists under him, Mullah Mujahed made it clear how the war can be stopped.

First, it’s suggested that if you haven’t seen it, watch “Kingdom of Heaven”. Then, think for a moment about the flags and patches of the clueless NATO forces who took over for American forces in Afghanistan; they are all flagrantly brandishing the sign of the cross in the Islamic state of Afghanistan and somehow assuming that there is going to be no muslim response. In the meantime, 5 attacks on NATO and American forces have occurred,and people are clueless as to the reason why.

DUH!!!!

This is Finland’s flag.

Britain’s flag.

Sweden’s flag.

If we are to stop the attacks on Americans and NATO forces, the military ‘experts’ involved should realize exactly what they’re doing when they go into a muslim country with the symbol of the crusaders. The Taliban is recruiting exponentially as a result of this; there is a terrible situation growing and brewing in Afghanistan, yet the politicos are at a loss as to the reason why.

There are muslim freedom fighters in Afghanistan in the form of the Northern Alliance, yet America has turned her back on them, instead entering into a power sharing agreement with the Taliban, and we are now reaping the results of that disastrous move.

We should let the muslims fight it out between each other and stop declaring a religious war in pictures.

Put your thinking caps on and consider what exactly has been done and watch the news reports of more NATO forces killed…some by Karzai’s own National Army-because this isn’t going to stop any time soon with the way this is being handled by the Americans, and by International forces involved.

Now look at Germany’s flag:

And ponder the simple fact that German soldiers are not being targeted. Oh, wait. There is a report of German soldiers attacked here from USA on May 19:

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide attacker detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding 16, officials said.

Three Germans were killed and two wounded in the attack, said Gen. Noor Mohammad Omarkhail, the deputy provincial police chief. Seven civilians were killed and 15 wounded, including seven seriously, the Interior Ministry said.

…A purported Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said a Taliban militant named Mullah Jawad from Baghlan province carried out the attack. That information could not be independently verified.

German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung broke off a private trip to Denmark to return to Berlin when he heard the news, spokesman Thomas Raabe said. Raabe refused to give details of the casualties.

“It was with great dismay and shock that I heard of the cowardly attacks on our German soldiers and the Afghan civilians, by which several German soldiers lost their lives and others were seriously injured,” Jung said in a statement Raabe read.

Notice the sign of the cross behind him.

Duh duh and more duh!

Stupid is as stupid does, I guess.

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“It was the hand of the foreigners (Americans) that stopped Jack’s release. Jack and his men are completely innocent everyone knows that. It was our decision to release everyone. It was a problem inside Americans. The problem was not inside the Afghan government it was with the Americans. We really don’t understand the truth. Why they put innocent men in prison.”

This is a clip from the movie made in Dubai called Shakur Shaitan. This clip published with complete permission from the attorneys, CTG, HaftShir Films and 5 Lions Films.

Judge Azizullah is the Senior Religious Appeals Judge for the Panjshir.

Judge Azizullah states that it was the “foreign hand” that stopped the release of Jack and his men and repealed Idema’s innocence verdict at the second court trial de novo.

Judge Azizullah, clearly states on the tape played in the film that the United States Embassy stopped Jack Idema’s release and that he could not understand why the American government “ordered innocent men put in prison.”

He also states; “The target was not Americans, but everything that happened did not come from our courts or us [did not come from any Afghan court or the judges specifically]. It was not clear for us; we still didn’t understand what their reason was.”

“For all the judges, for the Saranwal, and for me it was our decision for releasing [Jack], and those guys who did this … it was not in our hand … It has not become clear exactly who stopped it, Khalilzad or someone else.”

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I am talking as the delegation of 8 people. Now, if you want, without any requirement, I am ready to announce everywhere that Jack was blamed for torturing us, but we were in one room, and we never saw anyone tortured by him, 7 people were together, there was no torture, we never saw, not beating, not slapping, not even a pinch. NOTHING. We never saw this, but they lied. We were completely fine.

This is a clip from the movie made in Dubai called Shakur Shaitan. This clip is published here with complete permission from the attorneys, CTG, HaftShir Films and 5 Lions Films. Judge Sidiq should know; he was there; he is affiliated with Gulbideen Hekmatyar and was one of the people Jack arrested in 2004.

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An 11-year-old Alabama boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.

It’s a good thing that some kids know how to handle a gun, because that little boy would have been absolutely no match for that thing. They were on a hunting trip, and had plenty of firepower with them in case the boar decided to charge, which they’re known to do, but still, this is an enormous animal!!!

See also the website that’s been set up by the boy’s dad:
Monsterpig dot com

The Legend of Hogzilla The Movie

Apparently there was a case of another big giant boar that wasn’t quite as big as this one, and they’re making a movie about it.

My previous post called people to vote for the Kathryn Cramer awards. And I am pleased to announce, we have some winners! *applause*

In honor of Kathryn Cramer’s constant stream of lies, stupidity and bs, we have three awards to give out:

The winner of the Kathryn Cramer Liar award is Joe Cafasso!

You can see more about Cafasso here and at his own blog, Stuporpatriots, here. The most glaring examples I can think of are his resume as Gerry Blackwood, his resume as Jay Cafasso, and his recent escapades in Mississippi. Allegedly today, he’s at Northwestern University, because the people and students in today’s leftist academia are too stupid to realize that he’s a bonafide two-bit con artist.

The winner of the Kathryn Cramer BS award is a tie! We had the New York Times and CNN, both for stretching the truth in order to squeeze the stories into their leftist political agenda.

CNN recently said that you should beware of those evil military recruiters, because they’ll lie to you. The New York Times recently gushed about the intellectual capacity of an ant Al Gore. They came out to be equal BS Throwers in the eyes of people polled.

CNN Says Beware Military Recruiters, they’ll lie to you
The New York Times says Al Gore has Prophetic Status and Intellectual Mastery

The winner of the Kathryn Cramer Stupid Award is Kathryn Cramer herself!

Probably the most glaring example of stupidity is her doublespeak on Joe Cafasso all over the internet, on the one hand claiming she’d been conned, and on the other, deriding the blogs that are calling him out for the same behavior she’s pointing out. It’s a rather hypocritical position; but even after ripping her off for $20 grand and stealing her computer, she feels sorry for him. awww. But she’s the only one who is entitled to write about it, as she is intellectually superior to everyone else. That is why she got conned by Cafasso, apparently, because she’s so ‘aware’ and ‘intelligent’.

Even if others just pointing to her blog, repeating what she’s already said, she characterizes that as ‘defamation’…or in the case of reporting on other examples of his escapades, she’s jealous that she hasn’t cornered the market on Cafasso ’scoops’. She hasn’t shared any information, for example, on his ridiculous resume as Gerry Blackwood or his ridiculous resume as Jay Cafasso, although she has mentioned the time he spent in jail. The other was her recent claim on Wikipedia that the writers at Stuporpatriots lied about Cafasso’s claim that he’d like to see Idema assassinated. Read about that here.

And there ends this round of the Kathryn Cramer awards and until next time, be careful of what you say, because it might just fly back up into your face and then, you’re bound to end up looking like this:

Which might not go over that well at a cocktail party.

This is a great article at the New York Post by Ralph Peters, and he’s completely right on the mark.

May 25, 2007 — HOW many “human-rights activists” does it take to betray civilization?

Great attention getting byline.

After the Fatah al-Islam terrorists holed up in a Palestinian camp carried out a wave of bombings, bank robberies and assassinations, Lebanon’s struggling democratic government ordered its army to stop them. The Palestinian refugees themselves applauded the army’s efforts, stating that few of the terrorists were local and most were fanatics from other Muslim states. The terrorists ruled with the gun and sought to enforce Sharia law. Their victims want them gone.

The response from Human Rights Watch? Ignore the crimes of the terrorists and criticize the Lebanese army for attacking them “indiscriminately.”

Emphasis mine.

That would be travesty enough for one week, but it was only a sideshow. Each year, Amnesty International releases what purports to be an objective global survey of the state of human rights. Sounds like a great idea, but the report has long since degenerated into an effort to protect terrorists and mass murderers from justice - and bash America.

This is something we’ve learned to expect from the ‘human rights’ activists…

Here is another judge in Afghanistan punctuating the point that “Jack Is Innocent” from 5 April, 2005. This is a clip from the movie made in Dubai called Shakur Shaitan. This clip published with complete permission from the attorneys, CTG, HaftShir Films and 5 Lions Films. Judge Abed is the Chief Justice of the Afghan NDS Appeals Court. He joins other Afghans in claiming Jack Idema and his men are innocent of the charges. The guilty verdict of the kangaroo court in Afghanistan, was announced by dishonest inaccurate press reports and blogs in September of 2004 and after.

“I told the Supreme Court Judge (Shinwar) privately that we have to arrest the other guys, Jack is not guilty. I told the Chief of the Supreme Court that the guilty people are this guy, this guy and this guy…”

The film shows pictures of three people, whose identities I’m attempting to verify. I think the identity of the three terrorists shown in this clip are Sharazan (the guy arrested as he was getting off a bus with a letter from his brother at Gitmo in his pocket and a night letter from Mullah Omar)- Judge Sidiq (the middle one), and I’m not sure of the third right now, but will update this post when I find out.

“I told him that they have to capture back the guilty people (the terrorists that were released)…”

And so it is Judge Abed’s position that the people who Jack arrested were, indeed terrorists, and that the American government’s position that the people Jack arrested were ‘innocent Afghans’ is not the case.

After the terrorists that Jack arrested were released, they attacked Bagram AFB.

This is very compelling evidence, which the State department is probably very upset about because the US Department of State had insisted at one point that the Court delay their official written decision on Jack Idema’s case until former Chief Judge Ismail Abed returned from his all expenses paid vacation to the United States. Abed’s vacation was paid for by our very own DOS and the US Department of Justice in exchange for not releasing Jack and his men.

Judge Abed is Mohammed Sidiq’s cousin. Sidiq is an Hezb-i-Islami terrorist, a high profile individual that Jack found was a part of the terrorist cell. The terrorist cell was in the process of executing a plot to murder high profile Northern Alliance officials, including Yanus Qanooni. All those targeted by this cell were Karzai’s political opponents. Jack and his men not only captured the terrorists, but the PA system and explosives that would be used, much in the same way the PA system was used to murder Massoud on September 9, just two days before 9/11.

Sidiq was captured by Jack and his guys with Mullah Omar and Hekmatyar documents on his person (both Omar and Hekmatyar were at one point on the US Most Wanted Terrorist List). Abed is also a cousin on anti-Northern Alliance Chief Judge Shinwari.

Once Abed returned to Afghanistan from his all-expenses-paid US vacation, he said that in spite of Jack’s innocence, Jack would not be released from Pulacharke. And so, at least temporarily, the US Government’s bribe worked, and Jack wasn’t released at that point.

It should also be noted that Jack and his men were always noted as ‘political prisoners’ and not ‘criminal torturers’ as the press and some blogs reported.

The Red Cross doesn’t categorize them and didn’t categorize Jack as a criminal prisoner. If the Afghans thought he was a criminal, and if that Taliban court ruling that the MSM reported on still stood, they wouldn’t be considered ‘political prisoners’. Criminal prisoners are listed starting with four digit numbers Prisoners of War and “political prisoners” are listed with two or three digit numbers. Idema is registered as Prisoner of War ID #92.

Then you have as even FURTHER proof, the official Pulacharke Prison Roster listing all four personnel remaining in custody as Prisoners of War, officially recognized as such by the Ministry of Justice.

Here it is again for sizing purposes so you can see the entire thing:

Pulacharke Prison Roster for Political and Prisoners of War - Translation:

Dari Language (read right to left):

English Language:

When taking all of this into account, it’s very interesting that Abed would make this admission.

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You can see it at the Smoking Gun, here.

Michelle Malkin asks, what does real torture look like? And then she shows pictures from the manual, showing Al Qaeda’s drilling a man’s hand, and gouging someone’s eyeball out of its socket. And there’s plenty more where that came from in a several-page-spread of details for the sadistic wannabes, just in case they don’t have any ideas about what to do to the infidels they capture.

Naturally, human rights advocates like George Soros’ Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International will have nothing to do with calling a terrorist a terrorist (gee, according to literature, that’s a desphemism, even though they fit the literal definition of ‘terrorist’), or calling out that real torture isn’t Abu Ghraib, but Al Qaeda in Iraq-because that would mean they’d have to point out that their ‘freedom fighters’ aren’t really fighting for freedom; they’re sadistic murdering thugs with a blood lust for the agonizing screams of their bound and helpless captives.

Don Surber and Wretchard at the Belmont Club note their silence, and that of the terrorist-promoting terrorist-loving MSM on the subject.

Meanwhile, leftist wind tunnels complain about GOP Candidates applauding Jack Bauer’s techniques in 24; supposedly advocating torture, like ‘waterboarding’. Apparently these people are completely unaware of the CIA-approved interrogation techniques, plus,