The Justice For Jack Idema Blogburst

The Justice For Jack Idema Blogburst

It's been over three weeks since the news broke that US Special Forces soldier http://www.superpatriots.us/speakout/jackspeaks.htm">Jack Idema had been released from nearly three years of illegal-detention in Afghanistan. Since the initial flurry of articles in MSM that followed this announcement, however, the usual silence has descended over the Idema case.

... Which is strange if one considers that, when it comes to some other detainees, MSM have plenty to say.

Take, for example, the BBC's coverage of David Hicks, the Islamofascist fighter (trained, amongst other things, in assassination and 'martyrdom operations') who was recently transferred from Guantanamo Bay to a prison in his native Australia. During the two-month period between the announcement of the date for Hicks' tribunal and his eventual move, the BBC produced no less than http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?site=news&q=David+Hicks&tab=ns&edition=d&recipe=all&scope=all">sixteen articles on the case. Granted, some of these are legitimate (though typically-slanted) news stories. The majority, however, are clearly designed to do nothing more than keep Hicks' story fresh in readers' minds.

**Adding some more here:
David Hicks a shit in Australia
More on David Hicks
when David Hicks was trying to get UK citizenship

How different things are for Jack Idema, whose release drew only one report from AP, three weeks ago, and then silence. While Hicks' (disproved) claims of ill-treatment are picked over in detail, there has still been no mention of the (very real) torture Jack and his men suffered after their arrest. While Hicks' family are given every opportunity to put their case (such as it is), no one in MSM has ever bothered to contact Jack's WWII veteran father and ask how he feels about his son's imprisonment. While the press-pack devote thousands of column-inches to debating the legitimacy of Gitmo, there is little-to-no interest in the fact that Jack Idema has been held in absolute violation of both Afghan and US law for two, full years. And while no one doubts Hicks' guilt (which even he accepted), Jack Idema not only maintains his innocence, but proved it when he and Brent were acquitted on appeal -- Something else that MSM have never bothered to fully report on.

This matters, and not just in terms of how well it illustrates Big Media's obsession with terrorists and its indifference to US troops. See, the constant barrage of (mainly supportive) press Hicks received helped to keep the issue of his incarceration alive. Arguably, it also helped to net him an unjustly-light nine-month sentence.

Right now, Jack Idema could use some of that kind of press. Instead, it begins to look as though MSM have flushed his name back down the memory-hole, leaving him to struggle on alone against the State Department's obstruction tactics.

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@superpatriots.us?subject=Free%20Jack%20Idema

%20Blogburst">Cao or RottweilerPupUK@aol.com?subject=Free%20Jack%20Idema%20Blogburst">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 http://caosblog.com/category/task-force-sabre-7/">a large section devoted to Jack Idema. There's also http://caosblog.com/2417">a timeline here, and, of course, a huge amount of information is available over at http://www.superpatriots.us/">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 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

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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