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The Justice For Jack Idema Blogburst
US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema may no longer be illegally-imprisoned in Afghanistan, but his release from custody hasn’t heralded a change of tack from the journalists who have consistently smeared his good name over the last three years.
While blogs were reporting the truth about Idema’s release last week, one [...]
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Jack Idema Blogburst
Is Jack Idema Free? Shamefully, No. Two weeks ago, and one week after the news that Afghanistan had finally released Jack Idema, we re-named this blogburst Justice For Jack Idema. On the strength of today's revelations, perhaps that move was premature:
Is Jack Idema still at Pulacharke? Yes. Is he being held there by the [...]
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The Free Jack Idema Blogburst
Although illegally-imprisoned US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema has now been officially released from prison in Afghanistan, it seems the US State Department is doing everything in its power to prevent him returning home.
Earlier today, Jack’s Afghan lawyer, Rahim Ahmadzai, put out an affidavit which confirms many of the things the [...]
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The Jack Idema Blogburst
Jack Idema Is Free
After almost three years of illegal-imprisonment, it looks as though US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema is on the verge of being freed:
An American prisoner held in Afghanistan for allegedly running a private prison was scheduled to be released from his Afghan prison as the State Department and the FBI faced a [...]
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Free Jack Idema Blogburst
The Free Jack Idema Blogburst
It has now been five weeks since anyone heard from illegally-imprisoned US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema. All those of us who are involved with the campaign to bring Jack home remain deeply concerned.
Alongside bloggers, of course, Jack’s cause has always been backed to-the-hilt by the Special Forces soldiers he has [...]
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Free Jack Idema Blogburst
The Free Jack Idema Blogburst One aspect in the case of illegally-imprisoned US Special Forces soldier Jack Idema that bears looking at in detail is the work he was doing in Afghanistan in the weeks prior to his arrest.
To listen to the media, Karzai and US State Department tell it, you could be forgiven [...]
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Free Jack Idema Blogburst
Free Jack Idema Blogburst
One aspect of the case of illegally-imprisoned U.S. Special Forces soldier Jack Idema that is always worth re-visiting is the horrendous treatment he and his men were subjected to after their arrest.
While Jack and his team (operating one of fifty-or-so similar SF safe-houses in Afghanistan) have been proven to have tortured no [...]
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Free Jack Idema Blogburst
The Free Jack Idema Blogburst
Regular readers of the Free Jack Idema Blogburst will recall the events last month which resulted in Brent Bennett’s forcible removal from Afghanistan. As Brent was being dragged out of the country in handcuffs, Jack Idema was involved in a tense standoff with the fifty-or-so Karzai goons who were trying to [...]
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Free Jack Idema Blogburst
The Free Jack Idema Blogburst
After the turmoil of recent weeks, the past seven days have been uneventful in the case of illegally-imprisoned Special Forces soldier Jack Idema.
Jack remains holed-up in his compound at Pulacharke prison, still under threat from the men President Karzai has posted outside the prison, but, for the moment, relatively safe.
As for [...]
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Jack Idema Blogburst
The Free Jack Idema Blogburst
One of the things worth stressing about the case of Jack Idema and Brent Bennett, the two US Special Forces soldiers held illegally in Afghanistan, is the reason they wound up in the country to begin with. Here’s Jack speaking on this subject:
9/11 happens, I’m in Los Angeles. They called at [...]
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