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December 28, 2005

We Will Never Give UP On Our Support For Jack Idema and His Men

Although we're getting a little now, Christmas in Britain passed without so much as a dusting of snow. Not so in Afghanistan, as we can see from this photograph, taken from inside the Pulacharke prison compound. The mountains, in particular, give a nice, Christmassy feel to the scene, as do the three or four inches of white stuff covering the ground.

In fact, the only things that really spoil this vista are the watchtowers, the prison bars and the knowledge that, behind them, are three American patriots -- Special Forces soldier - Jack Idema, his right-hand man Brent Bennet, and journalist Ed Caraballo.

Jack, Brent and Ed were originally sentenced to a decade in prison after a chaotic show trail in September 2004. Their judges were members of the Taliban regime who'd crept back into the new Afghan government. More worrying, perhaps, the bearded crazies were assisted by groups within the FBI and U.S. State Department, who disappeared evidence and collaborated with the men who tortured Jack, Brent and Ed. Since the trail, there have been numerous assassination attempts mounted against Idema and his men by the Taliban and al-Qaeda scumbags they are being held with.

Most disturbing of all, however, is the fact that all three men were declared innocent after a retrial almost exactly a year ago. Now, granted, there are bound to be some differences between our legal systems and the one in Afghanistan, but we're pretty sure one thing they do have in common is the notion that locking up completely innocent people isn't acceptable ...

... So why are Jack and his men still incarcerated? For answers, we need to look at the way the War On Terror is actually playing out in Afghanistan, and to understand the extent to which many of the players in the FBI and U.S. State Department have edged away from killing and capturing Islamofascists, and back toward policies of appeasement and (false) stability. This has meant, at least for the State Department and the Karzai government, that men like Jack Idema became something of an inconvenience, hunting, arresting and killing the very terrorists they were foolishly attempting to broker deals with. In an effort to push their flawed agendas, then, sections of the U.S. government have seen to it that Idema and his men stay behind bars.

In essence, this means that Jack Idema is a political prisoner, who, bizarrely, is being held by America in order to prevent him hunting down and killing the very people who masterminded 9/11.

And, yes, you really do need to read that, last sentence over several times in order for its full implications to sink in. Four years after that terrible, September day, instead of bringing the sword of justice to the bearded crazies responsible for 3000 murders, we're bringing injustice to the men whose mission it is to hunt down
the bin Ladens of this world and make them pay for what they did.

And, make no mistake, this is exactly what Jack Idema intends to do.
Here he is, in an interview he gave a couple of months ago, laying down
the principles upon which the WOT, should be fought.

 

Americans now are saying let's have this peace and appeasement and all of this -- listen. Remember about this? People forget about the fact that people were diving out windows on 9/11 to avoid being burned to death. This is a war. War is a war of attrition --that means you kill the enemy. You don't make peace with them, you don't make nice with them, you don't take 'em in for a steak dinner-you kill 'em. And believe me–these people deserve to die. They are the worst terrorists on the face of the earth. Look what they did on 9/11 and that is only one small part of what they want to do to us.

 

You can hear the whole thing here.

 

In the meantime, and while the head-hackers tuck into those steak
dinners courtesy of the State Department, Jack Idema and his men are
subjected to the petty malice of U.S. Consul Adrienne Harchick. Adrienne
(or 'Addie' to the friends she doesn't deserve to have) has denied Jack
and his men access to clean drinking water, refused to allow them to
send hand-made gifts to their families back home, and even went so far
as to seize 21 Christmas packages sent to Jack, Brent and Ed via regular
Afghan post. Adrienne's lame excuse for this, last, piece of spite was
that Christmas gifts 'violate the Muslim religion'. (This, even though
Jack's many Muslim friends in the Northern Alliance have offered to
deliver the presents to him themselves.)

But. This intolerable situation might, finally, be coming to an end.
Last week, the Northern Alliance-backed Yunis Qanooni took the reigns of
power in the Afghan Parliament, and, unlike the appeasing weasel Karzai,
intends to prosecute the war against terrorists hard. We must also hope
that Qanooni resolves to release Jack and his men so they can help in
this endeavour.

Because here's the thing: someone like Jack Idema is doing no good
looking at the Afghan mountains through the bars of a prison
cell. He needs to be in those mountains, finishing the fight
al-Qaeda started with us back in September, 2001.

Anyone wishing to join the Free Jack Idema Blogburst should email either
Cao or Rottweiler Puppy for details.

You can also contact the following people:

Posted by Wild Thing at December 28, 2005 06:56 PM

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