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Breaking News October 10, 2005: CBS NEWS is the First News Agency sued in US Federal Court in NY. Read It Here.  More Suits are on the way.

Note: The below statement was handed out by Jack in court to the press handwritten on yellow legal paper with a smuggled pen.  It was more than 21 pages long.  Not one press agency or reporter every quoted one word or checked out one single fact.  Instead they opted to print the party line, the story AP had already put forth-- They were torturers and bounty hunters.  The only statements the press ever printed word for word (at least from what we saw) were the words of a Taliban Judge and a Taliban Prosecutor (officially, "a former Taliban").

VERBATIM TRANSCRIPTION:

"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 government failed to stop these attacks. The answer is a failure of human intelligence, action, and imaginative daring.

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

The plot involved the assassination of the Afghan President, Minister of Defense, Minister of Education, two ambassadors, and the leaders of Massoud’s Jamiat Party. Had any of them been successful it would have resulted in certain civil war and the deaths of untold Afghan and American lives.

We now find ourselves imprisoned with terrorists, while the terrorists who were stopped here, have been set free.

These terrorists, who were working directly for Osama bin Laden and Gulbideen Hekmatyar, both on America’s Most Wanted list, now claim they were tortured and abused; now claim we smashed their heads in bloody bags, cut off fingers, poured boiling water on them, hung them upside down and dipped them in boiling water, repeatedly burned them with cigarettes, beat them day and night, and refused to feed them.

Yet when the Afghan intelligence agency took custody of them, and two American FBI agents interviewed them, only a few days after all this heinous torture occurred, only one of the terrorists had any mark or injury whatsoever; Serajan’s “torture” wounds amounted to two small cuts on the front of both his ankles, these incredible minor abrasions were self-inflicted when Serajan attempted to break the plastic flex-cuffs securing his feet during the transport from the terrorists safe-house rented for him with money directly from Osama bin Laden, and later while he was sitting alone in an interrogation room.

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.

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.

The result would have been flaming bodies of hundreds of American soldiers in a scene that would have dwarfed the Beirut Marine barracks bombing and brought back the vision of burning victims plunging to their deaths on 9/11.

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 Kean [Chairman] of the 9/11 Commission recently said, “it takes most importantly imagination to interdict terrorists and their plots.

Although we saved the lives of hundreds of Americans, and according to the brother of Afghan Minister Yunis Qanooni, “millions of Afghans in what would have been a bloody civil war,” throughout the activities of our group, which was code-named Task Force Saber/7, we were in constant communication with the Pentagon, and had repeatedly requested assistance and the transfer of prisoners to U.S. military custody.

We were constantly told by Pentagon officials that things were being put in place to “protect and support” us.  We were constantly told that Task Force 180 and Task Force 176 (180’s successors) would contact us to arrange custody of the terrorists. Had it not been for the July 4th holiday, we believe that would have occurred prior to our supposed arrest.

However, during that time, someone at TF180 put out false and fabricated “wanted posters” saying I was wanted by the FBI.  The FBI claims that the poster was a fraud, but have not arrested or even questioned the person that authored this bogus poster.

With both remote-controlled bomb factories located, and armed with the photos and locations of the lead terrorist running the terror plot for bin Laden and Hekmatyar, we were forced to deal with that problem instead of arresting the remaining terrorists.

It should be noted that during this time we were working closely with Afghan Interim Government officials at the highest levels, including, but not limited to; Yunis Qanooni and his brother Chief of Security; Generals Atta, Lodeen, Gulhaider, Wassiq, Dauod, Hazrat Ali all Corps Commanders, and others; Amniat intelligence officers, area police chiefs, and a prominent Afghan ambassador.

In one instance, where Afghan women had to be dealt with, we requested, and were provided with, a female national police detective to speak to the women.  This was the only interaction we ever had with Afghan women.

Having to deal with the “wanted poster” situation, we sought counsel of the Pentagon, which stated “it was an overzealous captain” and “we are trying to resolve it.” We then notified the Afghan ambassador who we were working with (he was also a target of the terrorists, and bin Laden’s al-Qaida had severely wounded him during the September 9th, 2001 suicide bombing that killed Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud). We also requested by phone meetings with Amrullah, Chief of NDS, and with President Hamid Karzai. Both these meetings were to be scheduled the day after our arrest. However, three days before our arrest, we met with Marshall Fahim, the Minister of Defense, briefing him on the entire operation, and requested three things; 10 a meeting with General Dauod (MOD intelligence Chief); 2) transfer to MOD custody of the terrorists– if the U.S. did not arrange transfer in 72 hours; and 3) assistance with Bagram Air Base.

Marshall Fahim was showed the poster and he asked if he could discuss it with Ambassador Khalilzad that next afternoon at the Friday July 4th celebration at the U.S. embassy. We agreed and left the poster with him.

On Saturday, and Sunday July 3-4, we repeatedly sent emails to the Pentagon and the U.S. Navy Captain Frank at the U.S. Embassy requesting assistance. Captain Frank, we were told, was to be our liaison at the Embassy. Prior to this we contacted the Canadian government, both at the embassy in Kabul and in Canada, where our U.S. office reached out for Canada’s JTF6. We began discussions with the Canadians because by this time we learned that two of our terrorists had organized and led the killing of Lance Corporal Jaime Murphy on January 27th, 2004, during which Murphy’s ISAF jeep had been attacked on Darlaman Road in Kabul by a suicide bomber.

However, we learned from one of the terrorists that it had not been a suicide bombing. The bombs detonator had malfunctioned, setting off the explosion as the terrorist threw the explosive onto Murphy’s jeep.

Our interest was in confirming; 1) that the Canadians would take custody, and 2) that the Canadians would prosecute if we gave them enough evidence.

We also discussed this with General Attiquallah Lodeen, 3rd Corps Commander in Logar, through his staff because General Lodeen was in Dubai at the time, we felt it was important to get his opinion because the same terrorists had engineered both prior attempts to blow up General Lodeen’s car. And the map of one of the assassination attempts was found in one of the terrorists personal notebooks. General Lodeen’s son brought back the message that we could turn that particular terrorist over to the Canadians.

Unfortunately, the Canadian government did not feel like prosecuting Jaime Murphy’s killers was a top priority, and did not notify us of their decision prior to our arrest.

Two questions will probably arise; first, How did we find the terrorists? Second, How did we get them to cooperate.

First, we had what western government agencies lack in Afghanistan and in regards to al-Qaida– HUMINT, human intelligence. I personally had sources from during the war that were still working with me but would not work with U.S. Agencies, because they knew that many of the interpreters at the embassy, Kabul Compound, and Bagram Air Base were compromised by the Taliban and al-Qaida. In fact our intelligence was so good that we knew in advance that the first terrorist we captured would be carrying a Red Cross message from his brother, an al-Qaida operative currently in GITMO, Cuba. It was in his pocket when we captured him. U.S. intel and the FBI only dreams of information that accurate.

Second, we knew so much about the terrorists before we captured them that during the interrogation it was easy to manipulate and trick them into believing we had already captured their Network and that their terrorist comrades were already cooperating. We kept them awake with 24 hours of non-stop questioning, played loud Rock and Roll music and offered to let them work for us if they would turn over on the others. All that we questioned turned on each other. When one didn’t, we did not beat him, we simple confronted him with two that were cooperating and he quickly decided to join the same team.

Once they told us a little we gave them non-stop Miranda soda and restaurant kabob and promises of a new job working against terrorism.

The soldiers in Iraq that claim their abuse of prisoners was ordered by MI (Military Intelligence) are liars.  You only have a few days at most to get actionable intelligence.  Let a terrorist sit in a cell and you lose the initiative to find the others. Beat the terrorists and he admits to anything or nothing.  Again you lose. Humiliate the terrorist and he hates you and feeds you lies.

Your only way to get the terrorists to talk is sleep deprivation, promises for freedom if he gives up the other terrorists, and convincing the terrorist you are his friend.

Right now the Afghan NDS (intelligence agency) and FBI, have the videotapes of our interrogations.  These videos prove we are innocent of the charges of torture.  However, Both agencies refuse to allow our attorney’s or us to view the tapes or play them in court.  Further these tapes prove that these terrorists were on verge of assassinations and fire bombing Bagram Air Base with a plot that rivaled any terror attacks in recent history, and might have even approached the levels of terror reached on 9/11 had the fuel tankers reached the military housing areas at Bagram Air Base.

FBI interviews with one of the terrorists, which I was present for, also confirm all of this, and took place prior to our first court appearance. Yet those FBI 302’s (field reports) are now classified and unavailable for our defense under direct orders of Washington FBI headquarters.

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.

Had we not been kept in jail, or arrested in the first place we would have interdicted both bomb factories assembling the remote-controlled bombs, and captured both bomb makers. We already had their locations under surveillance and had the area commanders ready to meet us the next morning and assist us with the raids.

We had located the terror cell leader, who was working directly for Hekmatyar and bin Laden. He was in Northern Afghanistan and we would have captured him within 72 hours. We had also located Malawi Kabir and Hekmatyar and were fairly confident that we would have captured or killed them within seven days. Finally, one of the terrorist had agreed to let us use a sensitive intelligence technique with his cooperation, which we believe would have resulted in the exact location of Osama bin Laden. We had already offered the exact location of bin Laden to TF180 in early May, but TF180 was unprepared to act because we only had about 60 hours advance notice of where bin Laden would be, and his capture required more resources than our small team had, primarily transportation resources.

These were the successes of Task Force Saber/7, in each of our intelligence operations and raids which we conducted were 100% successful, with one exception. During the raid of Serajan’s safe house, the most important terrorist escaped (we had not known he was there).  He escaped up a ladder on the back wall because, and only because, I stopped the compound assault to keep Afghan soldiers from beating one of the terrorists. [This was caught on videotape by Caraballo]. It shows that I stopped the assault, endangering my own life, to drag two Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers off Serajan.

Later when Serajan agreed to cooperate with us, he said he was doing it because he recognized my voice as the person who stopped the Afghan soldiers from hurting him. This was also fully documented on videotape. "

READERS NOTE:  The rest of the statement will be up as soon as we can get a copy from someone  The only copies were given to the press, and the only copy available to us was missing about the last half of the pages.

DOES EVERYONE REALLY LIE? 

As Ed Caraballo pointed out in an interview, not EVERYONE-- on the other hand, if you print someone else's lie are you in fact culpable for the propagation of that lie?  According to the United States Supreme Court, you are. That's what most journalists did.

Press Lie # 1-

Within hours after their arrest the press was claiming that "men were found hanging upside down in their compound."

The truth is that this never happened.  Never.  No one was found tortured, hanging upside down, or abused in any way.  There is no evidence to the contrary, never has been any.  It sold stories.  If someone had been hung from the ceiling or walls of their house, or any building in the compound, the roof and walls would have collapsed.  Afghan mortar is barely sufficient to hang a picture, no less a human being.  In fact, reporters paid NDS/FBI agents for tours of the house, no where was there ANY evidence of anyone ever hanging from anything.  If there was, believe us, you would have seen that picture on the front cover of Time and Newsweek.  The only things ever "hanging" in Jack's compound were pictures of Commander Massoud in the living room.

Press Lie # 2-

New York Magazine: “Early press reports indicated that three prisoners found in Idema’s custody during the raid were blindfolded and beaten and strapped to the ceiling by their feet; five others were tied to chairs with rope in a small, dark room down a hall that was littered with bloodied clothing.”

Please, spare us the hyperbole.  What Sullivan FAILS to mention is that those "Early press reports" were widely known to be false, and were known by her to be false BEFORE she printed that article.  In other words, Sullivan couldn't say that it was true, or fact, or proven at trial, or anything else, so she said "early press reports..." this way she could use knowingly false and horrible lies with impunity.  No one ever said this at trial, the translation was wrong, and we have the trial tapes.  As far as a hall "littered with bloody clothing" that is as an outrageous of lie as any ever made.  Lets assume this is true; can someone please explain why no terrorist, no person, has ever shown a single laceration, cut, abrasion, or any other verifiable injury to any one.  In fact, the only verifiable injuries have been to the men of TASK FORCE SABER 7 (check out the case section of this website) Even in the first days, no press agency or journalist ever printed any of this with a name attached to the source.  It was always "a source that refused to be named."  That's press lingo for; it was made up, or at best, a rumor, in order to sell newspapers.  Sickening when you think about it, criminal when you consider how it affected the lives and liberty of three innocent Americans and their families.

Press Lie # 3-

"...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 killings circled and highlighted.

Press Lie # 4-

Mariah Blake in the Columbia Journalism Review "article":

"Many of Idema's claims, such as the Iraq-al-Qaida connection, have since been discredited by the 9-11 Commission and UN Weapons inspectors..."

The truth is that NONE of Jack's intelligence has EVER been discredited or disproven.  NO ONE has come up with a single bit of evidence to disprove any statement Jack has EVER made.  As an example, Jack stated bin Laden was in TORA BORA and escaped in December 2001.  The Chief of Taliban Intelligence which TF SABER 7 captured and turned over to TF 180 at Bagram in May 2004, also confirmed this, and of course, it was in the book THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN, based on Jack's statements.  Yet General Tommy Franks, like the press, has been denying this as recently as November 2004.  However, this month, on or about March 22nd, 2005, a FOIA request uncovered a document from GITMO in which a captured al-Qaida terrorist had admitted helping bin Laden escape from Tora Bora.  This was widely reported in late March 2005-- maybe the press should be apologizing to Jack for this too.

As to an Iraqi/bin Laden connection; the press loves to slam the President on this "mistake," ignoring the bin Laden  memo found in Iraq  which personally invited bin Laden to Iraq to discuss ongoing coordination and support.  And lets not forget that several al-Qaida groups have operated in Northern Iraq since before the war in Iraq ever started.

Regarding Jack's interview on MSNBC stating that Iraq was providing support, equipment, and men to al-Qaida, Blake is obviously not well enough informed to know that there were many Iraqi's captured in Afghanistan during the 2001 war.  One of those IRAQI terrorists, named Bokan, was captured in the battle of Kunduz in November 2001.  Bokan later escaped from Shebergan prison in Northern Afghanistan, was re-arrested when he tried to assassinate General Fahim, the Minister of Defence, and sent to Pulacharke with other Iraqi, Pakistani, Arab, and Chinese al-Qaida terrorists.  Bokan led the assassination attempt on Jack and the other men on December 17, 2004 and was killed by Colonel Sherzaman in a gun battle protecting Jack.  The Colonel was subsequently murdered by the other terrorists.  The one Arab terrorist that survived, although severely wounded, admitted that it was an al-Qaida assassination plot, and that many Iraqi's had been sent to Afghanistan to fight with bin Laden.  So much for the accuracy of the 9/11 report.

Press Lie # 5-

Mariah Blake and her friend Stacy Sullivan, quote from  CJR: "...but by billing him [Jack] as a government official, the media lent them credence."

First, let us point out that the media NEVER billed Jack as a government official.  In fact, Jack went to great efforts to make it clear that although he is a Green Beret, he was no longer on active-duty, nor assigned to the Special Forces troops in Afghanistan, he was with the Northern Alliance as a civilian military advisor to Massoud's forces, and remains one.  The exact NPR quote was "former" which was a word conveniently left out of the quote by Mariah Blake.  Sullivan, in her vicious truth twisting style, stated in her NY Magazine article that Idema was turning up on TV, calling "himself a Green Beret" and "clearly implying he was on active duty."  Apparently Sullivan and Blake, who wrote their articles in concert, conveniently ignored their OWN picture used in NY Magazine shown above (pg. 37) which clearly states, "RET" - that means RETIRED for all you stupid journalists out there.

Press Lie # 6-

"Idema wore a backward US Flag."

Nobody but the most exceptionally ignorant journalist could express this lame observation. The "Stars and Stripes" always fly with the blue field facing into battle.

Press Lie # 7-

"Duped ISAF."

ISAF worked closely with TF SABER 7 throughout the entire 2004 operation, this is well documented in video and photos, including photos in MAXIM and STUFF. In fact, not only did ISAF repeatedly congratulate Jack and his men in writing but the German Army EOD team even received an award for helping Jack. T F SABER 7 and ISAF worked together repeatedly and closely, until the FBI started complaining and then later when the press started writing about mythical torture.  In fact, coalition forces are STILL working with TF SABER 7 covertly in various terrorist investigations.

Press Lie # 8-

"No connection to US Government."

For 25 years, the Counterr Terrorist Group had been funded  by the United States, DIA, CIA, Secret Service, FBI, 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.

Press Lie # 9-

"Idema had some special forces training." And, "Idema was never a Green Beret."

Jack Idema graduated the Special Forces Course in 1976, earning his Green Beret in 1975 (see the About The SuperPatriots page) and went to more than thirty Special Forces and Special Operations Courses, including teaching at the US Army Special Warfare Center (the Green Beret School) as Senior Instructor.  We assure you this man is the real deal.  The phony military slander that is on certain websites and stated by sources who can only wish and dream of having his credentials, then reported by outlets like Dallas Morning News, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Magazine, are complete fabrications and lies.  Jack Idema has been fighting for America since he was 17 years old, and we have no doubt he will continue to do so.
A complete rebuttal with evidence is HERE.

Press Lie # 10-

State Department: "They got a fair trial."

Oh, this is a good one.  Suggest you visit the About the Case part of this site.  Before you get there, ask yourself this:  How does a Taliban Judge and a Taliban Prosecutor, preside over a trial of ANY American?  Is there something wrong with this picture?  We already know there is something wrong with this war.

Press Lie # 11-

State Department: "They are in good health."

Oh, this one is like drinking gasoline.  Just read the suit against Ambassador Khalilzad.  The US Consul saw so many bruises, lacerations, and burns on Jack that she almost threw up.  Jack of course, had no problem stripping for her and making sure she saw all the marks.  Then she waited two weeks to send a doctor, ordered the report "modified" (Jack had two partially detached retinas from the concussions to his head and blows to his temples), then she (Sandra Ingram) said she would file a formal complaint, and instead told the Taliban guards who promptly handcuffed and beat Jack unconscious again when she left.  These guys were burned, beaten, electrocuted, drugged, and beat with sticks and cables (metal whips the Taliban became famous for).  The US Counsel and Ambassador knew all about it, and the FBI laughed about it.

Press Lie # 12-

Columbia Journalism Review: "Idema received "at least one donation [in other words, an illegal donation] according to his bank records."  And, in New York Magazine: "... a letter from a North Carolina Postal Inspector, charging Idema with mail fraud..."

Total lies.  These so-called "bank records" DO NOT exist.  It is a complete fabrication and myth.  Totally made up, never happened.  If it did, Mariah Blake and Stacy Sullivan sure as hell would have printed the bank records, but they didn't.  Jack never took a dime from anyone in donations, and every dime he spent in the War On Terror and for humanitarian aid efforts and medical supplies for the Afghans was his OWN money.  We bet this one is getting them sued post haste.  The source for this, Chris Thompson, was already being sued by Jack because it was Thompson that was stealing money, and Thompson got caught doing it.

Press Lie # 13-

"Jack's al-Qaida Tapes are fake."

Lot's of folks are trying to propagate this one.  Coincidentally, most of these are the same folks already getting sued by Jack for interfering with his ownership of the al-Qaida 8mm VideoX Training Tapes.  The tapes are the only known al-Qaida training tapes ever captured which give the world an inside look at not only al-Qaida tactics that are being used against the west, but also the identities of al-Qaida terrorists.  Although very few actual al-Qaida faces have ever been shown to the world by Jack (see: CBS 60 Minutes - January 17, 2002), the fact is that American intelligence agencies were supplied with the full version and have been able to identify numerous terrorists as the result of Jack's efforts, and that includes both the capture and termination of al-Qaida terrorists.  Military personnel can determine the truth themselves in the military section and watch a video clip.

Press Lie # 14-

New York Magazine: The CIA did voice analysis on the tapes and they were fake.

Total bullshit.  The CIA never did any such thing.  The CIA knew they were real because Jack gave them the tapes and they had confirmed identities of terrorists on the tapes which were not masked (these were the restricted 7 hours that Jack only gave to US, British-MI-6, and Australian SAS intelligence).  If CJR and NY Magazine had a budget, instead of being fly-by-night operations, they would have hired a translator and confirmed the Arabic dialects on the tapes, which is what Dan Rather and CBS did before airing them.  Blake and Sullivan's unnamed "CIA source" was Joe Cafasso (see "At FOX News, The Colonel Who Wasn’t," New York Times article, 4/29/02, Jim Rutenberg) ARTICLE.  Whoa, talk about using one of the worst, most tainted sources in the world- a guy who claimed to be a Colonel in Special Forces with three Silver Stars, and who served with Delta Force at DESERT ONE.  Ha! Turns out Cafasso was a Private who served at Fort Dix, NJ for 44 days before being forcibly discharged for unsuitability for service.  Great source Mariah and Stacy (by the way, both journalists knew this BEFORE they wrote their articles).

Interestingly enough, just recently, the CIA CONFIRMED with journalist Sherrie Gossett at Accuracy in Media that these statements by Blake and Sullivan, in Columbia Journalism Review and NY Magazine, were completely false.

Press Lie # 15-

New York Magazine, quoting Tracy Paul Warrington, “I was looking at seven hours of tape of something that al-Qaida doesn’t do.”

First, it is interesting to point out that Warrington was fired from CUBIX Defense Company for misuse of company email, among other related things, when Warrington accused Jack of conducting mortar attacks on civilians from mosques, and used company email to do it.  Now lets look at the quote.  Right about the same time he said this, al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists in Kabul kidnapped several UN personnel in the middle of Kabul city in an attack that was portrayed in Jack's 8mm VideoX tapes exactly as it was practiced three years earlier.  We could go on and on about this, but suffice it to say, Warrington, is not a former "Deputy Commander" of Special Forces, or of a "Special Forces counter-terrorism team" (Blake's CJR article), nor has he ever seen the seven hours of tape-- that is a lie, only the CIA, the DIA, and several other alphabet agencies have ever been given those highly restricted 7 hours by Jack, although most of it was shown to Dan Rather (CBS) and Eric Campbell (ABC) AFTER Jack got permission from a US Army PAO. Oh yeah, just for the record, Warrington, Stacy's "expert," has never even been to Afghanistan.

Press Lie # 16-

NY Magazine: Talking about wounded journalist Gary Scurka: “…Idema returned, trailing clouds of camera-ready military glory…'basically he was acting in front of the camera.'”  But, "...Scurka finished still another documentary including no footage of Idema or his exploits.”

When Gary Scurka was wounded in November 2001, Tim Friend (Sullivan's "source") had helped put his Afghan scarf around one of Scurka's legs.  Medical care was hours away, and Scurka was losing massive amounts of blood.  Jack and Greg Long took Scurka across the river, where JACK put Scurka in a Land Cruiser and did ALL of his medical work out of camera view.  Jack took off the scarves, found three more unseen severe wounds, and administered antibiotic and Demerol injections, then jack stopped the bleeding with hemostats and Combat Trauma Dressings.  But NOT BEFORE Jack told Scurka's cameraman to "put the fucking camera down and hand me scissors and hemostats out of that bag [pointing to his medic bag]."  THAT is one reason why you have not seen Jack's efforts "on film," although there is film of Jack there and evacuating Scurka, and Jack later asked Scurka NOT to air his face.  There is more to this that cannot be released until after the trial of Ed Artis this June.  Scurka confirmed all of this in a sworn statement under oath.  Scurka also confirmed that Jack saved his life that day, NOT "Sir" Edward Artis, who was more than a hundred miles away when it happened, although, as Jack points out in THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN, it was Kevin Sites who pulled Scurka off the hill and was the hero that day.  Read what Scurka said in the Fayetteville Observer when he returned home.

Press Lie # 17-

"Idema paid Caraballo to be his cameraman."

Ed's company has done previous relief video editing for Counterr Group for their humanitarian relief efforts in Afghanistan, as well as some video compression work for Idema's National Press Club Award winning  "The Colonel's Story" (a prestigious award neither Sullivan or Blake have ever even been considered for). Caraballo also made a promotional tape for the book The Hunt For Bin Laden to be used by the publicity department at Random House, one of the largest publishers in America.  Jack did not pay Caraballo to be a cameraman in Afghanistan.  In fact, our sources (and they are pretty darn good sources) indicated Jack did not even want to bring him, or any journalist, and the Army asked him to bring three different journalists, all of which Jack turned down.

Press Lie # 18-100

Readers Note: The rest of the lies are really not worth our time right now. But keep checking here (last updated 9-31-05) and as the lawsuits start flying, watch this list grow.  CBS NEWS is now being sued in US Federal Court in NY. Read It Here.

Ed Artis, the phony Navy SEAL, the Phony Green Beret, the Phony Knight, the Phony Silver Star and Bronze Star Hero, who holds a Phony PhD, who says it was all just an innocent mistake; his dad got his medals in the mail one day so "Sir" Ed just pinned them on.
Read more about him on the
lying sources page.