READERS NOTE:  Because this page, and the evidence it will contain, is highly restricted at this point, it will not be posted until after the release of all TASK FORCE SABER 7 men.  At this time, we have included quite a bit of information, and background info related to FBI misconduct, which directly contradicts the false and fabricated accounts you have read in the press and on weblogs.  This is by no means all the evidence there is.  The evidence is extraordinary, especially the tapes and undercover video of FBI misconduct.  Just one example of a document proving the FBI has made false statements; it is included below and to the right-  an FBI Federal Express label. However, if you would like to get more information about the FBI and the events you can visit three other pages in the legal section of this website.  For more info on the FBI's  illegal activities follow the buttons below, on the left.

Updated 10/10/05.
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The Press Saw The FBI involved in every aspect of the case but never mentioned them; the Press just ignored the 3000 pound Elephant in the Room every single day.  Why?

What the FBI Actually Did:

The defendants have repeatedly asked for the right to view the evidence against them.  They have never been allowed to do so.  No one in the defense has ever seen any witness statement, or ever seen a single shred of evidence against them.  Worse is that all of the defense evidence, such as the tapes Caraballo made, the emails on TASK FORCE SABER/7's computers, the film, photos, and authorization documents signed by government officials and everything else that could help the defense, was all either destroyed or confiscated by the FBI and most of it was never allowed to be used at trial, except for a few videotapes the defendants were able to assemble.

Illegal Search and Seizure:

The FBI seized evidence, destroyed evidence, and concealed evidence.  The FBI, which has NO JURISDICTION in this case, and NO AUTHORITY to view, examine, or take the evidence, removed extensive evidence from the NDS evidence room before the trial began.  This evidence included approximately 200 videotapes, 500 pages of documents, more than forty rolls of film.  Even if the FBI were allowed to view the evidence, under Afghan law it must be done in the presence of the accused.  Instead, the evidence was removed to the US Embassy and placed under United States Marine Corps guard.  Once the evidence was removed and in the illegal possession of the American FBI, videotapes were erased, documents either destroyed or lost (they were never returned) videotapes missing, and all film missing, along with laptop computers and hundreds of emails between US government officials and the accused (and also Afghan government officials, including the offices of the President and the Vice-President). 

Illegal Destruction of Evidence:

After much argument in court, and extensive pressure by Caraballo’s defense lawyer, the FBI returned SOME of the evidence during an August trial.  Still missing were videotapes, documents, all film, and the laptop computers and emails.  All of the evidence missing was completely exculpatory in nature and would have provided a complete defense for the accused.  Although the FBI never returned any critical evidence-- like conversations with high-ranking US DOD officials like Heather Anderson-- at least they were forced to return some of the videos.  It seems strange that a majority of tapes that were returned were of meetings with Northern Commanders who had just become presidential opponents in the Afghanistan election.  More than one high source in the government has said that the FBI intentionally released, and then played these defense tapes in the court in order to hurt Karzai's opponents with false allegations that his opponents had authorized all this fictional torture and abuse.  The videotape in which Minister Qanooni, a member of the National Security Council, and presidential running candidate, authorizing the arrest of one of his employees, turned up missing the day after a portion was played in Court proving the initial statements of the accused.  But only a portion was allowed to be played, the part with approval from Karzai's staff was not allowed to be played, and was later mysteriously erased from the original tape.  During the Appeals Court process evidence continued to disappear in a completely illegal and unwarranted interference in the appeals process; the Chief Judge and accompanying judges, of the Appeals Court were present when an NDS official said that the evidence was no longer there after Jack and his guys asked to see it in front of the them, The NDS continued to say that the FBI had AGAIN CONFISCATED (and signed for) all of the evidence, on or about November 27, 2004 just days before their hearing.

Illegal Withholding of Exculpatory Evidence:

To this day... the FBI has never returned any of the evidence to the Court.  These men (Jack, et al) have never been allowed to use their documents, videotapes, pictures, or identification documents taken by the FBI for their defense in the Afghan Court.  Some evidence was supplied by their families, friends, and secretly by US Special Operations personnel through back channels.  The result of this evidence, as little as was available, was overwhelming.  Between December 6th and March 15th six different Appeals court judges and two Supreme Court judges all proclaimed the absolute innocence of all Task Force Saber 7 men during multiple hearings. 

However, Judge Ismail Abed, the Appeals Court chief, returned from a three week vacation in the United States (all expenses paid by the DOS and Department of Justice), walked into the final hearing (after the men had been found innocent and ordered released) and refused to sign the release order, instead cutting their sentences in half and stating ON THE RECORD, that he was ordered to hold them by the US Government, specifically, Khalilzad and his "associates."

Illegal & Unwarranted Arrest of Jack's Wife:

When the FBI couldn't break Jack and his guys and get them to reveal their intelligence sources inside al-Qaida, they took the next logical step- they went after Jack's wife.  Hey, get a good look at this guy on the left- this is what your tax dollars are paying for- 6 dozen Dunkin Donuts a day- you think maybe the Marshals and FBI could spend some of that doughnut money on training agents how to check warrants and read an NCI check before they kick a door down? On the other hand, they knew the arrest was illegal before they did it.

This might sound hard to believe, but believe us when we tell you that this is STANDARD FBI procedure-- always go after the wives and families to coerce people into cooperating.  If you watch The Sopranos you probably know this, but still think it's just the movies.  Well, it's not.  The FBI trains their agents at Quantico on exactly how to use wives and children to force "targets" into cooperating.  The thing that is really egregious about this is that Jack and his guys were, and are, fully cooperating with other intelligence agencies and with the DOD and several foreign intelligence groups against al-Qaida-- they just didn't want to work with the FBI and get their (Jack's) guys killed.  Unable to coerce Jack and the others to cooperate, the FBI decided to pull a Soprano's move.  In early January, the FBI directed the US Marshals Service to arrest Jack's wife on a phony warrant. 

They arrested her in the early morning, storm-trooping Captain Bennett's house in Fayetteville.  The FBI didn't do it themselves, they sent the US Marshal's Violent Felony Fugitive  Task Force to hit the house, and five fat sloppy donut eating gun pointing "Marshals" went in on a 117 pound girl who walked dogs for a living.  The Marshals handcuffed bystanders, threatened a US Army Master Sergeant (who has been taking care of Brent's house while he is away) with arrest, and threatened to shoot Jack and Viktoria's dogs with their Glock Pistols.

"I'll blow that dog's fucking head off," the 300 pound slob said pointing his weapon at her dog.  Now it wasn't like these were Rotweilers or Pit-bulls or something.  They are well-behaved extremely well-cared for lap dogs that were cowering behind Viktoria in her pajamas.  And there was no doubt that Viktoria was cowering-- she had no idea of whether they were there to arrest her, kill her, beat her, or might kill her dogs, which are basically her whole life now.  Jack managed to reach one of the Marshals on the phone as they were searching the house (without a search warrant we might add) and promptly informed them he was going to "sue the shit out of" them (and apparently a few other choice comments). 

The Marshals later claimed it was only a "cursory search."  It was an illegal search nonetheless.  Of course nothing illegal was found.  But, we're surprised that they didn't plant something-- that would have been standard FBI procedure.   According to a source inside the Marshals Service, when the Marshal's "Fat Boy" Squad found out the real story and why they had been sent there, the Marshals turned her over and immediately left pissed off at being used by the FBI (they weren't smelling doughnuts, they were smelling a lawsuit-- good nose).

The FBI then attempted to interrogate Viktoria for three hours even though they had been informed by Viktoria and multiple lawyers that she was not to be questioned without an attorney present, she only had about a dozen representing her by then.  The FBI ignored the lawyers and threatened her with ten years in jail if she didn't cooperate and tell them everything she knew about Jack's Afghan missions, his intel assets inside al-Qaida, and who he was "working for or with at the Pentagon."  One of the interrogators was Bob Burda, an agent that had repeatedly visited Viktoria's Pet Resort during the year before and repeatedly asked her out to lunch.  Now Agent Bob was claiming she was a violent, high-risk armed and dangerous felon.  So just for clarification purposes, ask yourselves this; why would an FBI agent who was a prime culprit behind Viktoria Idema's arrest, not arrest her months before, knowing she was supposedly this "high- risk armed and violent felony offender," not to mention that it was not even her they wanted information about, but Jack-- (big surprise coming for Burda-  he was taped on surveillance cameras during these prior visits and rumor has it that Jack's lawyers now have the tapes).  Meanwhile, two attorneys in Texas were working overtime on a Friday night to sort things out, and by the end of the evening, Texas had confirmed that there was NO LEGAL warrant for ANYTHING.  We should also note that this woman was a stockbroker who was arrested for white collar financial crimes during the Michael Milliken era 15 years ago and has not gotten even a parking ticket since. 

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, where she was being held during FBI interrogation, promptly notified the FBI that the was no valid warrant and they were releasing her immediately, apologizing to her, and escorting her home.  The Sheriff and the Under-Sheriff jumped through hoops to protect her, and for that they should be commended.  A lieutenant in the Sheriff's Office also provided testimony about what the FBI had done, and allegedly called the FBI agents "a bunch of fucking assholes."  We can't agree more.

Anyone remember Randy Weaver's wife Vicki?  The FBI killed her, and paid $3 million dollars to Weaver's family to keep a jury from hearing the details of that case.  Quite frankly, it's amazing that Viktoria and her dogs are still alive.

If this isn't grounds for a Congressional investigation what is?  Are soldiers and DOD contractors serving in Iraq and Afghanistan going to start having to worry about what the FBI will do to their wives, mothers, and daughters if they run afoul of FBI policy or refuse to work for the FBI?  Because that is the bottom line.  Private jails, torture, illegal counter-terror operations is all a bunch of hype and bullshit.  Jack refused to work for the FBI, and the bottom line is that if Jack started working for the FBI tomorrow, he would be free, all his guys would be free, and Jack would be getting medals.  Welcome to Post 9/11 and the Patriot Act fellow Americans.

Update: February 21, 2005, Raleigh, NC
The US Marshals, anticipating lawsuits, have refused to release FOIA information regarding the false arrest of Jack's wife.  Federal attorneys are now preparing a FOIA suit to obtain the information they will need to file a lawsuit for damages and request criminal charges against the agents involved.

Update: March 18, 2005, New York, NY
On March 17, 2005, Attorney John Tiffany filed a Habeas Corpus lawsuit/civil action against FBI Director Robert Mueller.  The case has been assigned to the Honorable US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein.  This will certainly shed some light on what really went down in this case.

Update: April 12, 2005, New York, NY
The Honorable Judge Hellerstein DENIED the FBI and Khalilzad's request for a 90 day extension to answer a complaint.  Judge Hellerstein gave the government only two weeks- they had to answer to the Court before the end of April. 

Update: May 11, 2005, New York, NY
The government has defended the case by saying they were improperly served and that the Court has no jurisdiction to hear the case- they have refused to answer the allegations.

Update: October 1, 2005, Washington, DC
Ori Lev, a US government attorney is claiming that US Marshal records are lost, and that the US Marshals are not a government agency that can be forced to divulge their records of an illegal arrest.  The government is also claiming that records are lost.

And visit the Links Below for more legal info:

The FBI was the 3,000 Pound Elephant that stomped around the room, ignored by everyone; orchestrating everything from the torture of these men, to the seizure of all evidence linking them to the US government and all evidence they needed to prove they were innocent.  So the question arises, why?

That answer is coming, but the information and the evidence, will not go up on this site until after these men are free.  All of the text in the column below was contained in the original statement given out in July 2004.  One thing is clear, while the FBI, the US Embassy, TF-180, ISAF, and the terrorists are all changing their stories on a weekly basis, these guys never change their story.

The FBI Knew Nothing About Jack's Operation in Afghanistan and the Operation Was Illegal?

Well, then maybe the director of the FBI can explain why his FBI Counter-Terrorist Unit and Counter-Terrorist Watch Command was sending Federal Express packages to and from Jack and the Counter-Terrorist Group in Fayetteville, NC.  Between December 2003 and April 2004 (when TASK FORCE SABER 7 left for Afghanistan) there were far more than a dozen of "urgent priority" packages sent between these two groups.  This receipt above, sent by the FBI, billed to a US government account, and sent via a special Federal Express route, called "Sensitive - Courier Alert" marked - "Highest Boarding Priority" - "No Redirect" and a bunch of other spook stuff, was sent by Debbie Brooks of the FBI directly from the FBI's CT Task Force (CT Watch Command at Headquarters).  Notice several things 1) 4.45 pounds of al-Qaida documents; 2) FBI Sensitive CT account #; 3) "From Room 5712 Category A" - that room handles all sensitive/classified communications for the Counter-Terrorist guys; 4) "Origin" - which gives a phone number at the CT Task Force Command office; 5) "15 Jan 04" - right during the height of the exchanges, and right during the time when Ashcroft was announcing "special" and "covert" intelligence was finding evidence of new al-Qaida attacks planned on Americans.  Oh yeah, the FBI had "no idea" of who these guys are.

FBI Lie # 1-

"They Had No Connection to the US Government."

Just look closely at the FBI document above.  For 25 years, the Counterr Terrorist Group had been funded  by the United States, FBI, DIA, CIA, Secret Service, National Park Service, BOP, and US Navy SEALs, US Special Operations, DEA, and US Missions to foreign countries, such as Haiti.  Jack Idema has trained, worked for, and worked with more than 100 federal and foreign special operations, counter-terrorist, and HRT agencies and organizations.  In fact, he even trained a US president's son how to shoot a pistol.

FBI Lie # 2-

"They Arrested Innocent Afghans."

The "innocent" Afghans arrested by Task Force Saber 7 were captured with explosives, detonators, fuses, bomb plans, maps of failed bomb attempt routes, terrorist recruitment paraphernalia, terrorist documents, weapons, ammunition, maps of ISAF compounds, Bagram Airbase, a Red Cross note from an al-Qaida leader in GITMO Cuba, a letter from Mullah Omar, and even newspapers with their previous attacks and killing circled and highlighted (Not just a couple newspapers, but boxes full, all of them had been circled the same).  This is a no-brainer- and the evidence is all over this site.  Three of the terrorists have since escaped to Pakistan and are in hiding after their involvement in the American DYNCORP bombing in Kabul.

FBI Lie # 3-

"The FBI has not interfered with the Afghan trial."

This is another comical denial.  More than fifty journalists watched two FBI agents walk into an August hearing and return a box (Marked MRE's) with only about 75 videotapes which had been illegally removed from NDS more than one month before.  Dozens of tapes were missing, dozens were erased, and several were redacted.  Not ONE member of the Press reported the full story on this event, just glossing over it as a sideline, even though they watched it happen before their very eyes, neither did the press question the FBI on why they had done this.  In November 2004, the FBI again took the evidence after they realized that there were still tapes that could be used in the Appeals Court new trial, and no one has seen it since.  There is more about this in the special case section of this site.]

FBI Lie # 4-

"The FBI has no indication of acts of terrorism planned or committed by Idema's suspects."

Ghulamsaki confessed to two senior FBI agents while being interrogated by Jack Idema.  He fully confessed to a plot to kill 500-1000 American soldiers at Bagram airfield to these two agents, and an FBI 302 Field report was written and sent by high priority Operational Urgent to FBI Headquarters in Washington.  Just three days before the Afghan trial started the FBI 302 Field Report was classified SECRET/SCI and was no longer available for the defense, or anyone else, including the DOD.

Update May 10, 2005- Ghulamsaki has been linked to the capture of wanted al-Qaida terrorist al-Libi ("the Libyan").  Apparently Jack and his guys had been right on track.

READERS NOTE: Lots more FBI lies are coming to this page, and more evidence against them, so stay tuned.

Extract From the July 2004 Press Statement Jack Idema issued during the first trial:

"Every American with a son or daughter serving at Bagram Air force Base in Afghanistan, every husband or wife with a spouse, and every American who has a friend serving at Bagram, should remember the terrorist bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut and remember 9/11."

Then they should ask why the [FBI] failed to stop these attacks. The answer is "a failure of human intelligence, action, and imaginative daring." [This was a quote from the 9/11 Commission]

"When the FBI was alerted by us to a terrorist threat against U.S. personnel they failed to act in any positive way against the terrorists, even though one of the terrorists was clearly identified by name and location.  Clearly the FBI was failing to act again.

After contacting the Pentagon we acted, immediately deploying to Afghanistan, where, working with our former Northern Alliance allies, we captured first Ghulamsaki, the terrorist the FBI was informed of previously, and then subsequently captured 95% of the entire al-Qaida and Hezb-i-Islami terrorist operation cell behind the plot. In four different operations and raids, we captured terrorists, explosives, detonators, and vehicles that were to be used in the terrorist plot....

Almost all of this was confirmed by the two FBI agents who interviewed myself, my men, and the terrorists. The FBI has now made that report classified.  Two FBI agents who conducted those interviews were field agents working in Khost. They recommended that we be released, that the terrorists be transferred to U.S. custody. And that myself and Task Force Saber/7 be allowed to finish the mission with the FBI. Creating a win-win situation for everyone except al-Qaida. They met with me approximately six times and indicated they would rather be fighting high-level al-Qaida with us instead of conducting house searches of low-level Taliban soldiers in the south.

Both agents were ordered to drop the case and cease all contact with us by FBI headquarters in Washington.

But to bring this home to Americans, think about this: Four fuel tankers driving into Bagram Air Base (fuel tankers are constantly daily arriving at Bagram) laden with gas and explosives as they passed through the gates.  The explosives would never be discovered as the terrorists were using a combination of plastic explosives and incendiary explosives which American bomb dogs could not detect.

My President said, in September 2001, that all Americans were now soldiers in the War On Terror. He called upon each of us to do whatever we could to stop terror and save American lives.  I have done that. Together with a few brave Americans and Afghan soldiers who fought with me during the liberation of Afghanistan, we stopped the terror attacks before they occurred.  That is something Americans have wanted for years. Action before innocent lives are lost, not FBI investigations after the attack.

In doing so we proved what Thomas H. Kean of the 9/11 Commission recently said, “it takes most importantly imagination to interdict terrorists and their plots."

Signed,
TASK FORCE SABER 7

A Personal Message From Jack:

Ok, weblogs and the press say we're just common criminals, bounty hunters, and amateurs, without a clue about terrorism, terrorists, or anything else important.  That is simply not the case.  I have twenty-seven years of experience in counter-terrorism, the FBI has previously hired me to teach their SWAT teams, their HRT (Hostage Rescue Team), and invited me to lecture at Quantico, where I gave several classes and seminars.  I was writing and teaching counter-terrorism long before the FBI HRT unit was even formed by my old "friend" John Simeone (never could spell his name right).  I went through the Army Special Ops hostage rescue and counter-terrorist course, in early 80's and taught it in the mid-80's.

If we were con-men psycho vigilantes then maybe you could explain why the FBI sealed and searched our Kabul compound and house, confiscated all of the military equipment, sat phones, and computers, then seized all the documents, videos, and photos of the terrorists right before the trial, and why has no one ever seen that stuff again?  Exactly what are they trying to hide?  Well, this site gives you a good idea-- they are trying to hide their own incompetence.  So much for the 9/11 Commission making a difference.

Courage Forward,
Jack

PS: Guess the fat boy marshals thought this little guy was a fleeing felon and hiding his identity because he was in disguise-- that was certainly grounds to pull guns on him-- I'll see you psychos in court.  And if you're feeling tough, you can always bring your fat asses to Afghanistan and we can see how tough you really are.  I remember a guy who was kicking a puppy dog into unconsciousness once in a Walmart.  I broke his arm, five ribs, and ruptured his spleen.  The local cops took the guy to the hospital, and they took me out to a bar.  The bottom line is that picking on girls and puppy dogs ain't cool.

10/10/05  HOT DOCUMENTS:
Read or Download the latest FOIA Suit Document in the Washington DC Lawsuit Against the FBI, the US Marshals, and the US State Department. CLICK HERE

The Khalilzad Habeas Corpus is the actual case filed against the Director of the FBI on March 17, 2005, and outlines many of the FBI's wrongful acts.

SuperPats vs. The Taliban is the case against Karzai and other officials who were working with the terrorists and is an upcoming civil suit.