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As seen at Cao’s Blog:

Mohammed Fahim Khairy visited my blog and here’s what he said about Jack:

Jack is free? what a wonderful news, the man is back huh? Jack Idema your part of our history. I cant wait to contact you directly please visit my blog and let me hear ur own words

The only thing is, very few people know this. So I didn’t respond. Then, his impatience grew, and he sent me an email.

Well I certainly don’t want to be rude, this is a young man who understands the situation in Afghanistan and has been printing the truth about what’s been going on there at his wonderful blog. He tells his own story in a fresh, honest way. Fahim is someone who is a testament to what Jack has been saying; that Jack’s version of what’s going on in Afghanistan is the truth. And Fahim is someone who would know, not someone standing next to a brokendown birdbath in Wisconsin.

I have known about Jack’s releases and Karzai’s attempting to grant him ‘amnesty’ as though he’s a terrorist, for a long time. I knew, for example, that he’s been gone from Afghanistan for quite a while now, and I’ve been searching the news articles coming out of Afghanistan, looking for the press’s acknowledgement of that incredible fact. Either there has been an intentional blackout on this, or this is just more evidence that the media is totally clueless about the real story.

Fahim has contacts back in Afghanistan who have told him this news, apparently, hot off the Kabul pipeline, outside of the AP and the spinmeisters who are so desperate to tell the story in the worst possible way. The goal of that, it seems to me, is to indict him in the press for WAR CRIMES so the DOJ can use it against him in the Habeas proceedings rather than bring witnesses forward with affadavits to their wild, inaccurate and false claims. What a wonderful way to release the news, because the Afghans know and realize he is a true hero to them and to their country.

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You can see that clearly here in this video of Judge Abed, the Chief Justice of the Afghan NDS Appeals Court when he says “I love Jack’s courage. If someone asks me, I will tell them. Jack is not guilty.” Abed joins other Afghans in claiming Jack Idema and his men were completely 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. But, after being sentenced to 10 years in that horrible place, the notorious Pulacharke where thousands of people died at the hands of the soviets during the soviet occupation, Jack was released after 2 1/2 years back in January. He was actually declared innocent before that, but the American government kept him there, using Karzai’s Anti-Massoud Afghans as proxies.

That in itself should tell you something, even if you haven’t seen all the videos and audio intercepts of the Afghans declaring him innocent, or the clips from the Indian film about this, entitled SHAKUR SHAITAN. That movie is where the above 40-second clip above was taken from.

I called Jack, and he reluctantly agreed that it is time to break the news. He has been enjoying some much needed R&R, and who can blame him after the press and bloggers have been relentlessy attacking and maligning his character?

Jack Idema is no longer at Pulacharke and has left Afghanistan.

Taking Nina to the plane.

hmmmm. Is there anything strange about this picture to you? Notice how how he’s not leaving in shackles and he’s surrounded by Northern Alliance Generals? Some of what happened is not pictured here; like the hundreds of people who saw him off, and the phone calls he received from significant people in the government.

Have you ever seen a dog board a plane like this without being in a crate or a kennel? Looks like the Embassy lost this round. Do you notice the soldiers carrying his bags and briefcase? Notice that he and Nina are flying out of a military airfield on a huge plane where he and the dog – six legs – are the only two passengers?

Jack’s gear and Nina on the plane, posing for a photo op to remember this delicious moment. With a nod to Commander Massoud and the Massoud family, he wears the pakol; the signature hat of the Northern Alliance.

Aww, his detractors must be so upset about this picture; being escorted – not as a criminal – but by a dozen Northern Alliance Generals and both Vice Presidents called at the airfield to say goodbye, two Ambassadors sent their advisors to say goodbye, also. Not pictured, more than 200 officers came to say good-bye, and representatives from the Massoud Foundation.

And during the flight, Nina cuddled up to him.

Thank you all for your support, and for caring for the Americans at Pulacharke over the last three years. It is time to close the chapter on Pulacharke and the drama over their stay there. But another chapter in the story has begun, and he still needs justice from his own government for leaving him hanging him out to dry.

Jack said he will go over and get in touch with Fahim, and perhaps Fahim will interview him from an American northern Afghan’s perspective and post it on his blog. I look forward to that.

Cross posted at the National Writers Syndicate and the Wide Awakes

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