Right Voices

This is the post that those of us who’ve campaigned for Jack Idema’s release have always dreaded we’d have to write. However. The Kabul Times is reporting the following:

Persistent rumors support an armed confrontation at Pul-e-Charki Prison in Afghanistan, which resulted in the death or serious injury of an American Citizen.
While the exact days are unclear, one unnamed source in the Afghan Ministry of Justice has stated an American held at Afghanistan’s Central Prison was killed during a stand-off with government forces. Another source, in the paramilitary division of the Ministry of Justice has stated that although the American appears to be seriously wounded, he is still barricaded inside his prison area and holding off a large ANA, Afghanistan National Army, contingent sent to extract him by President Hamid Karzai.
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General Mohammed Kaiz at the Ministry of Justice claims “Mr. Jack freed our people, the terrorists hated him. They tried to kill him many times. The people of Bamiyan will miss his him and remember his courage.” Bamiyan is a province dominated by the Hazara tribe in western Afghanistan. Kaiz would not comment on the actual fate of Idema, only offer his sympathy to Idema’s family, quite possibly the only comment needed to sort out the mystery. 

Certainly, Jack has been in dire straights many times before. And, certainly, any news report that reaches us via email and contains references to events taking place in September 2007 is suspect. But. No one at our end has been in direct contact with Jack for over a week now, and the images we received out of Pulacharke back in January were not pretty.

 

 

For now, all we can do is keep Jack and his family in our hopes and prayers.

This does not look good, not good at all.

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Jack Idema

Please say a prayer for him!