Free Jack Idema Blogburst III
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Right now, illegally-imprisoned US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema is stuck inside one of the world’s most infamous prisons, Pulacharke, for crimes he was cleared of committing two, full years ago. As for Jack’s right-hand-man, Captain Brent Bennett remains in hiding, denied access to his own passport and the right to return home to the country he fought for. Brent is, in his own words, ‘a man without a country’.
Meanwhile, under cover of darkness last Friday, a former Deputy Minister for the Taliban, Mullah Shahidkhel, was flown out of Pulacarke on President Karzai’s orders. Shahidkhel, who no one doubts deserved to be imprisoned, was returned to his Taliban ‘brothers’. He was personally greeted by Mullah Omah.
It will, perhaps, be instructive to compare and contrast the kind of men Karzai keeps imprisoned with those he chooses to release.
First, then, there’s Jack Idema. Far from having committed any crimes whatsoever, Jack and his team spent the three years from 2001-2004 engaged in the following:
- Fighting terrorists alongside our allies in the Northern Alliance
- Rescuing women and children from earthquake-hit areas
- Hunting Bin Laden
- Rescuing the President of AfghanistanÃs Ariana Airlines, Robullah Amain, from a rioting Islamist mob
- Thwarting a terrorist plot to firebomb Bagram Airbase
So that’s the guy who President Karzai and the US State Department illegally imprison ” What about the Taliban leader they choose to release? Well, from his time as one of the key Islamofascists running Afghanistan under the Taliban right up until the present day, Mullah Shahidkhel has been involved in the following, actual crimes:
- As the Deputy Minister [pdf] in the Taliban’s Religious Education Ministry, Shahidkhel closed schools, burned schools, burned books, and had hundreds of teachers and lecturers working in non-religious fields hanged.
- Ordered the execution of scores of women who secretly educated their daughters
- Was serving a 17-20 year sentence for murder and torture
- While imprisoned, ordered yet more schools burned and teachers assassinated
- Was facing fresh murder charges for his leadership role in the March 2006 riots at Pulacharke which left a dozen people dead
Something is going badly wrong in Afghanistan, and men like Jack Idema and Brent Bennett are paying the price. As for Mullah Shahidkhel, well, the only thing he’ll be paying for in the near future is the gasoline he needs for burning more schools to the ground.
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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 Russell Brown - 011-93-70201908 (Fired)
US Consul Addie Harchik- 011-93-70201908
(denied them water and mail at Thanksgiving- Gone)
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
H.E. Said Tayeb JAWAD (Afghan Ambassador- powerful in US)
(Northern Alliance Good Guy Fired- New Pro Taliban Ambassador)
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington
2341 Wyoming Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel: (202) 483-6414
Fax: (202) 483-9523
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
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January 17, 2007 - 09:40 AM on January 17th, 2007
These barbarian Taliban!!!
Why can’t they stick to international civilized standards as the American goverment as they demonstrate with Guantanamo, the secret CIA-prisons in various countries and the kidnapping into these…? Will they ever learn?!?
January 17, 2007 - 09:56 AM on January 17th, 2007
Yeay Matt! Nothing wrong with sawing heads off now is there?
January 17, 2007 - 10:05 AM on January 17th, 2007
Well John… sawing off a head here… ripping of a head at an execution there… you know how these folks down there appreciate the rather rude kind of fun…
[pathetically] Are we the ones to judge them?
January 17, 2007 - 10:10 AM on January 17th, 2007
Matthias, can you please give me an example of how Guantonamo could be considered barbaric?
January 17, 2007 - 10:23 AM on January 17th, 2007
Peejz,
when I search in Google with the words “Guantanamo” and “torture” I get 1.320.000 results… Is that barbaric enough?
Not to mention the legal aspect, of people being imprisoned for now five years, without a regular accusal, a lawyer, a trial or a verdict… I think even in medieval times there was more order in the process than in the case of Guantanamo…
January 17, 2007 - 10:24 AM on January 17th, 2007
I can answer that, Peejz. Let me guess: Perhaps one of the ethnically-sensitive meals was served at a temperature that was not precisely what the recipient preferred? Or a guard may not have shown the full measure of respect for the Koran as it was delivered to an inmate? Perhaps the chocolate truffles placed on the freshly made beds of the detainees were stale?
Now if I was in charge, there’s be no ethnically-sensitive meals. Thgey’d start on a diet of pork rinds and water. The ones that cooperated (gave up their intel, and didn’t fight the guards) would be given commensurate privileges. ANY misconduct would be dealt with severely. Gas a guard? Spend two weeks in the hole with water only. Any that died in captivity would be wrapped with pig entrails and placed on display for the rest to see. That’s right, no 72 Virgins.
I know, Libs. I’m just awful, aren’t I?
January 17, 2007 - 10:33 AM on January 17th, 2007
1.32 results? (trailing zeros left out for simplification) That’s impressive!!!
When have regular prisoners taken in war ever been granted access to lawyers? When have they ever had trials?
You are very confused.
January 17, 2007 - 10:37 AM on January 17th, 2007
6-“Perhaps one of the ethnically-sensitive meals was served at a temperature that was not precisely what the recipient preferred? Or a guard may not have shown the full measure of respect for the Koran as it was delivered to an inmate? Perhaps the chocolate truffles placed on the freshly made beds of the detainees were stale?”
You are a funny guy, Robert. Isn’t he funny, guys? [looking around]
Yeah, we all know how much more tolerant and tough conservative Americans are towards their values… you wouldn’t complain about comparing your President to Hitler, or shitting on your flag or making fun about whining of an imprisioned special forces dude (what a fairy!)…
No, you wouldn’t, pal… You’re the tough kinda guy!…
January 17, 2007 - 10:40 AM on January 17th, 2007
I take it you can’t give me an example Matthias?
January 17, 2007 - 10:40 AM on January 17th, 2007
“When have regular prisoners taken in war ever been granted access to lawyers? When have they ever had trials?”
Isn’t it normal that POWs get to know when they will be released once the war is over? This situation reminds me a little bit of “Rambo II”… unfortunately with you guys as the bad ones that lock up people and throw away the key…
January 17, 2007 - 10:44 AM on January 17th, 2007
When is the war on terror going to be over?
January 17, 2007 - 10:47 AM on January 17th, 2007
Im “funny” Matty, because I am showing just how utterly absurd you and the Libs are when they want us to feel sorry for the rabid animals caged at Gitmo. If I was in charge, they would have been fed to the sharks a long, long time ago.
January 17, 2007 - 10:47 AM on January 17th, 2007
Matthias- The 1.32 million hits you got are references made from various sources, I am sure you are part of that with comments you have made here…it doesn’t answer the question..
The war isn’t over therefore the enemy combatants, not POW’s, will be sitting tight for awhile.
What are your thoughts on the recidivism rate of Gitmo prisoners?
January 17, 2007 - 12:00 PM on January 17th, 2007
8, Mattias, you are a Schweinhundt!
January 17, 2007 - 12:33 PM on January 17th, 2007
14- PCD…
I don’t know if it was you to whom I already explained it…
The word is “Schweinehund”! You “Eaddiott”!
11- I remember a president standing in a uniform (as if he had ever really served) on the deck of a carrier boasting around “Mission accomplished!”. But to answer your question, if it was for the sake of spreading fear and to create a reason to be re-elected: Never!
January 17, 2007 - 12:41 PM on January 17th, 2007
13- “The war isn’t over therefore the enemy combatants, not POW’s, will be sitting tight for awhile.”
So why then would you expect the other side to release Mr. Idema.
If you don’t get somebody released from prison in a country where you have more lawyers than anywhere else on the planet (stopping that would be a great political initiative…), how could that happen in Nowhereistan???
January 17, 2007 - 12:55 PM on January 17th, 2007
15, arrogant schweinehund (Have the spelling your way), Bush served in the Air National Guard flying a supersonic fighter, a fighter that WAS NOT USED IN VIETNAM.
January 17, 2007 - 02:52 PM on January 17th, 2007
16- obviously you missed the point I was making on the recidivism rate of Gitmo prisoners. They are coming back to Gitmo just as fast as they are being released..key word released….
If a person is taken into custody once, one could believe that a mistake has been made, but when that same man is taken prisoner the 2nd time on the same battlefield, the chances that the man is innocent are greatly diminished.
January 17, 2007 - 11:25 PM on January 17th, 2007
Having know some who have served at Gitmo… These guys are really, really, dangerous. As is Matty wearing his black turtlneck in a coffe shop peddeling his recycled communism.:roll:
January 18, 2007 - 02:34 AM on January 18th, 2007
19- “As is Matty wearing his black turtlneck in a coffe shop peddeling his recycled communism.”
So if a conservative complains about prisons outside of the US he is striving for human rights and freedom…
)..
if a liberal complains about “Gitmo”, he is a communist and a Schweinehund (good progress, PCD, next time we train the pronunciation
January 18, 2007 - 07:20 AM on January 18th, 2007
Matthias, to quote my Grandfather, “Make out da light. Der spielfest ist Kaput!”
Again, take your sophmoric lecturing over to the wahabist sites. There’s some in English, and maybe a few in German.
January 18, 2007 - 08:57 AM on January 18th, 2007
21- Hey, your grandfather knew Esperanto?? Amazing!
Actually: What does “sophmoric” mean? My online dictionary only knows “sophomoric” or are you referring to Sappho, you naughty little boy…?
January 18, 2007 - 09:34 AM on January 18th, 2007
22, It literally means, “Wise Fool”.
January 18, 2007 - 09:58 AM on January 18th, 2007
23- hey, 50% success… still better than a “Foolish fool”..
January 18, 2007 - 12:04 PM on January 18th, 2007
6. Mattie,,,I don’t recall America (greatest country in the world that saved GB, France and all that from German opression) or an American (something I am proud of being) hanging Saddam. “foolish”
January 19, 2007 - 11:55 PM on January 19th, 2007
Matthias, you are once again showing your ignorance. Jack Idema is NOT a POW, nor is he a captured enemy combatant. He was charged with a crime, convicted and then had his conviction overturned on appeal and therefore his continued detention is in violation of the law of the very country that he is being detained in. The prisoners at GITMO are illegal, nonuniformed enemy combatants in an ongoing war. As Illegal enemy combatants, the Geneva conventions allow for them to be EXECUTED following a military tribunal to determine their status. They are NOT criminals who have broken a law, nor are they prisoners of war. They are nonuniformed, illegal combatants and therefore under international law are to be treated the same as spies or saboteurs and executed accordingly. Go back to your copies of Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto and leave running the world to those of us with a clue. BTW since you’re so intent on correcting everyone’s German, here’s on of the two or three phrases I picked up from the soldiers who worked for me. scheiß Kopf.
January 20, 2007 - 08:32 AM on January 20th, 2007
26- Thanks for that FAO…the facts seem to get overlooked!:wink:
January 20, 2007 - 09:13 PM on January 20th, 2007
Peejz, You’re welcome. I do prefer to base my arguments in either fact or logic. Occasionally my information may be outdated, but I try to “Joe Friday” my arguments by trying to stick to “Just the facts, ma’am”:smile::smile:
January 20, 2007 - 09:40 PM on January 20th, 2007
:lol::lol: