Jack Idema

The Free Jack Idema Blogburst

In concentrating on the gross injustice of the illegal imprisonment of U.S.
Special Forces soldier Jack Idema, his right-hand man Brent Bennett
and journalist Ed Caraballo, it's possible to forget about Idema's contribution to the WoT.

This would be a mistake, as understanding what Jack does and how he thinks is an important part of the story.

So. In 2001, Jack Idema, then in his mid-forties, was enjoying retirement from the U.S. army. When 9/11 occurred, he contacted the military immediately and had himself placed back on the active service list and shipped out to Afghanistan.

He arrived two weeks after the twin towers fell, with orders to organise air-drops supplying the Northern Alliance, who then controlled only the northern 10% of the country.
This was at the beginning of the two-month period in which a coalition of U.S. Special Forces, British SAS and Northern Alliance troops swept across the whole of Afghanistan, routing Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Here's Idema's take on what it was like to participate in this action:

So Massoud’s forces, Buldock and some of the other guys like Captain Mark Mitch who was in Dostrum’s area up in the northwest of Afghanistan, they did a remarkable job, they really did. And quite frankly, it shocked the conventional forces and it shocked the Pentagon at how fast.

This is the difference between Iraq and Afghanistan: 100,000 of Massoud’s
mujahideen picked up weapons and stood next to us and fought. In Iraq not a
single Iraqi picked up a weapon to fight the Iraq government. So there’s a huge
difference here; this is a country that wanted liberation, I talk about Afghanistan, and they were willing to die for that liberation, and all they needed was our air support and our advice. And we gave it to them. The bombing started October 12th and on November 12th, Kabul fell. And after Kabul fell, we headed to Tora Bora and other places. I took one of the Northern Alliance groups into Tora Bora later on into Shahi Khot and Anaconda, and it was really a (cuts out) as far as an unconventional war.

It's tremendously important we remember that without Special Forces troops like Jack Idema, the push to liberate Afghanistan would have been delayed by the months it would have taken
to get conventional forces in place. Instead, the Taliban were removed from power with remarkable efficiency, and, compared to the losses conventional forces would have suffered, at the cost of remarkably few coalition lives.

This is why men like Jack Idema matter. See, no one would have blamed him if, after a long and
distinguished career in the service of his country, he'd decided to leave the WoT to younger men. Instead, Idema fought hard to get back into the game, then harder still to capture and kill as many Islamist terrorists as he could.

Moreover, when the first stage of the war was over, Jack elected to stay on in Afghanistan, working with the Northern Alliance in its efforts to ensure a stable and free society flourished there.

As this excerpt from a UPI report on the rescue of Afghan officials from an Islamist mob shows, this was and is important and necessary work:

The mob moved so quickly that the 100-200 policemen deployed near the airport could not move quickly enough to control the situation, according to Shergai.
"Jack," as the special advisor to the Afghan military is known, managed to
rescue the President of Afghanistanís Ariana Airlines, Robullah Amain, who had
escaped from the mob and was surrounded in a terminal office. Along with seven
Afghan commandos, Jack rescued Amain, Haji Timor the airport manager and five
others and escorted them to safety.

An ISAF spokesmen claimed that a small team of British soldiers supposedly
helped to save the national airline executive from certain death.

Ariana President Robullah Amain confirmed that in reality, it was an American
Green Beret and his Afghan soldiers.

Karzai has made increasingly urgent calls during the past several days for an
expansion of ISAF forces in Afghanistan. But the UN mandated European peace
keeping mission is becoming increasingly discredited even in Kabul.

And yet. Idema remains stuck inside Pulacharke prison while the war he should be fighting, and, remarkably, still wants to fight rages on without him.

So what can we do? Well, anyone reading this with their own blog, and who believes the WoT still needs fighting, 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 can also contact the following people and make your feelings known:

Secret US EMBASSY Fax: – 301-560-5729 (Local US Fax: Goes RIGHT TO Ambassador)
c/o US Ambassador Ronald Neuman
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)

US Embassy Translator Wahid – new – 011-93-70201902

US Embassy Translator Bashir Momman– 011-93-70201923

US Consul (friend of Jack's Now fired) Dawn Schrepel– 011-93-70201908

Embassy of Afghanistan (Good
guys, Northern Alliance)
2341 Wyoming Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Ph: 202-483-6410, Fax: no. 202-483-6488

Ambassador Massoud Khalili (wounded with Massoud)
Islamic State of Afghanistan
Embassy of Afghanistan
New Delhi, India

H.E. Said Tayeb JAWAD (Afghan Ambassador- powerful in US)
Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington
2341 Wyoming Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
Tel: (+1-202) 483 6414
Fax: (+1-202) 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.: (+1-212) 972 2276 or 972 2277
Fax: (+1-212) 972 9046

Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon – Room # 3E880
Washington, DC 20301-1000
Ph: (703) 692-7100
Fax: (703) 697-9080

Lt General William Boykin
Deputy Undersecretary
of Defense for Intelligence
1800 Defense Pentagon – Room # 3E836
Washington, DC 20301
Ph: (703) 697-0170
Private Fax: (703) 697-9080

Stephen Cambone
Principle Deputy Secretary for Intelligence
1800 Defense Pentagon – Room # 3E
Washington, DC 20310-0100

General Peter J. Shoomaker
Chief of Staff, Department of the Army
200 Army Pentagon – Room # 3E528
Washington, DC 20310-0200
Ph: (703) 695-2077 / Fax: (703) 614-5268

The Honorable John D. Negroponte
Director National Intelligence
New Executive Office Building
725 17th Street, N.W., Room 4203
Washington, DC 20503

The Committee
On Homeland Security
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

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
Email

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

Senator Elizabeth Dole (Jack's Rep)
United States Senate
310 New Bern Avenue, Suite 122
Raleigh, NC 27601
Ph: 919.856.4630
Fax: 919.856.4053

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 (of Interest)
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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NEWS FROM IRAQ:

Sadr City leaders return UAV to Iraqi Army

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Sadr City civic officials returned an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to Multi-National Division – Baghdad Feb. 8.

Maj. Gen. Jawad, commander of the 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, received the aircraft from Sadr City officials on behalf of MND-B.

In a sign of cooperation, city leaders notified the Iraqi Army that the aircraft had been recovered.

The aircraft was on a flight in support of Iraqi Security Forces protecting Muslims participating in the Ashura pilgrimage.

Air traffic controllers lost contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle shortly after takeoff from an airfield in Taji at approximately 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. The aircraft then conducted a controlled parachute landing within Sadr City.

Soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division had asked Sadr City residents to return the UAV if found.

Unmanned aerial vehicle goes down near Sadr City

BAGHDAD, Iraq – An unmanned and unarmed aerial vehicle belonging to Multi-National Division – Baghdad experienced a controlled parachute landing near Sadr City Feb. 7.

The unmanned aerial vehicle lost contact with air traffic controllers shortly after takeoff from an airfield in Taji at approximately 10:30 p.m.

The aircraft was on a flight in support of Iraqi Security Force protecting Muslims participating in the Ashura pilgrimage.

GAIR RHYDD - EDITOR SUSPENDED BY LEFTIST COWARD SCUM.

Lastly a story of cowardice and dhiminditude of the first order by Cardiff University newspaper Gair Rhydd. The editor of Cardiff University newspaper Gair Rhydd, Tom Wellingham, was yesterday suspended after the cartoon, first published in a Danish newspaper, appeared.

All copies of the newspaper, which claims a readership of 25,000, were withdrawn at the "earliest moment possible" after the potential consequences of the cartoon were printed, said the students' union responsible for the publication.

Around 200 copies are said to be unaccounted for.

Three other student journalists on Gair Rhydd have also been suspended from the university's Students' Union while an investigation is carried out into how the offending image came to be printed on page six of the newspaper's latest edition, which appeared briefly on news stands in the university on Sunday evening. Full story here....cowards sell out to islam and give up free speech.

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