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Veritas et Libertas-
Truth is Liberty.
Hard jobs, hard assignments, and sometimes hard luck.  But when the truth is finally told, the world will know that these men were the type you don't find anymore; committed to the liberty of America, the defeat of terrorists, for God,
and Country...
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Warren Zevon sang about lawyers, guns, and money.  Jack doesn't need money, nor does he want it, but he says he sure could use more guns and a lot more lawyers.  To find out more about that, just visit his Co-Counsel page:

Actually, Jack isn't asking anyone for a dime.  He never has.  Contrary to the false accusations and libelous comments on blogger sites, and in numerous articles (take a look at the SuperPatriots' webpage about Lying Journalists and Lying Sources), neither Jack, or any member of TASK FORCE SABER 7 has ever taken a donation or a single dime from anyone.

Read More about the Geneva Convention and the POW Status Legal Brief Jack and his men filed with the Central information Bureaux in Geneva Switzerland, by clicking on the above button.

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"In war and in life, there are only two rules on this earth that matter… what a man can’t do and what a man can do.  In the defense of the oppressed, I like to think there are no restrictions, no bounds, no limits, but I also know that destiny turns on a dime."

Jack Idema is from Poughkeepsie, New York.  His mother was a secretary at the Pentagon during World War II.  His father was a United States Marine who rose from private to Master Gunnery Sergeant, First Sergeant, and Sergeant Major in three short years, fighting on Iwo Jima (5th wave), Okinawa, Guam, and entering Japan only days after the surrender with the 3rd Marine Division.  John Idema had been training to assault the cliffs on the coast of Japan, he estimates that 100% of the first raiding force would have been killed.  At 84 years old John Idema still holds a commercial pilots license and has recently been diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, meaning the likelihood of ever seeing his son again is slim to none.  Jack's entire family has served in America's Armed Forces with distinction, his uncles in the Pacific, Europe, Normandy, and against all enemies. 
At 12 years old Jack decided to forgo Veterinarian or Law School and join the Green Berets.  It was the height of the Vietnam War.  At 18 he became the youngest Green Beret in American history.

For more than 27 years Jack Idema has defended his country in Latin America, South America, Eastern Europe, Africa, the Mid-East, South East Asia, Central America, and finally, South West Asia.  For more than a quarter of a century Jack has worked in counter-terrorists projects and  activities which may never be known or written about but which have kept America and its allies free from oppressors and terrorists. 

During the 2002 war in Afghanistan, his mother died.  Jack was chasing Iraqi, Pakistani, Iranian, and Japanese al-Qaida terrorists in Afghanistan.  He had been very close to bin Laden, and this was well documented by UPI, books, and other news sources.  He did not return to bury his mother until three weeks later.  Wounded twice, with nine straight months in combat and/or intelligence operations, Jack Idema served continuously longer than ANY other ground operator in Afghanistan in 2001/2002.  When al-Qaida again threatened regional security and the lives of his Afghan friends, Jack returned on what was to be a 30-45 day operation against a single terrorist bomber.  Almost one year later, he and his men remain the only American Prisoners of War in the World.

Some Pictures below from Jack's days during the Moscow Coup, Central America, and during the 2001/2002 war and the 2003 War Against Terror.

Excerpts From the NY Times Bestselling Book-
The HUNT FOR BIN LADEN-

From the Forward:

"Great insight into the workings and politics of the Northern Alliance was obtained from a special advisor to the United Front Military Forces of Afghanistan, known only as “Jack.”  He also helped us ferret out countless factual errors and revisionist history set forth by official sources.  Since the start of the war, Jack personally waged his own vicious battle against al-Qaida.  He has lived with the Northern Alliance since the war began and is a fierce advocate for American support of these vehemently anti-Taliban and anti-al-Qaida (AQ) fighters."

From Chapter 1 -
The TIGER ROARS:

"After graduating Phase I, and being awarded the coveted Green Beret, Jack had many more courses and schools to attend.  Jack learned everything the top instructors in Special Forces had to teach.  Mike Echanis, the infamous hand-to-hand-combat specialist, pronounced the five-foot-nine-inch tall youthful fighting man an adept Hwa-Rang-Do warrior after another three months of training with the instructor, again thanks to Jack’s mentor, Beckwith.  Beckwith also arranged for the young special warfare student to receive cross-training in other areas before being assigned to regular Special Forces duties. 

Over the years, Jack would become an extremely controversial figure in Special Forces.  A quarter of a century later, CBS’ Dan Rather would voice his own opinion of Jack when he met him in Afghanistan, saying he was  “politically incorrect, abrasive, unconventional, and unquestionably heroic.”   Jack had missed Vietnam by the time his Special Forces training ended, but he wasn’t about to miss Afghanistan and a crack at bin Laden, even if he was officially out of the Army.

On September 12, he told his friends he was going to war and two weeks later he was packing to leave for Afghanistan—like the rest of the Green Berets, he meant just what he said."

From Chapter 20 -
TORA BORA:

"In the chaos, the highest bidder could easily buy the different opposing commanders and clans, purchasing their loyalty or silence, which allowed the al-Qaida and Taliban to move freely in the region.  Thirdly, the AQ and Taliban were fleeing and moving across their own turf, within their established networks, especially in the southeast where they had always been strong.  Human intelligence (HUMINT) from prisoners, turncoats and walk-ins while valuable, was slow in coming, and unlikely to help in the immediate pursuit.  The lack of HUMINT was the single critical factor in the way.  Northern Alliance Afghans knew that the AQ and Taliban could not be trusted, and everything had a price on it, even the smallest detail.  More importantly, HUMINT could only be developed by small teams, or one man, on the ground and deep inside the Afghan community, and the US was not prepared to risk lives that boldly, nor were they ready to allow a single man to wade into such incredible danger.  What they needed was individual men, or a man, with the Northern Alliance, twenty-four hours a day.  There was one such Green Beret operator, and his name was Jack.  But he wasn’t working for Rumsfeld or Tenet, although he was helping them as much as he could behind the scenes.  The CIA was relying more on Predator UAVs than people on the ground, and the Tora Bora showdown was escalating faster and with a wider scope than anyone initially expected."

By the end of January 2002, Tora Bora, which had previously been inundated with press and U.S. military forces, was now a ghost town."

From THE HUNT FROM BIN LADEN Confirmed by UPI News (2/9/02):

"On February 5, Jack, an American advisor working with the Northern Alliance, targeted Osama bin Laden just south of Tora Bora in the Dehbala region.  He had been working with secret intelligence assets in the mountains for two months to locate bin Laden.  The group in hiding was positively confirmed be extremely high-ranking AQ commanders.  There was also a very good chance bin Laden himself was with them, and receiving constant medical care for his kidney problems, and a shrapnel wound received in Tora Bora.  On February 6, 2002, just as Jack was organizing his force to attack, a CIA Predator UAV flew high over the mountain area.  The remote operator zoomed in the camera and locked on to the small group of men.   He quickly spotted what Jack already knew.  There was a tall man in the group who was surrounded by bodyguards.

Banking the Predator to the right, it came over the barren terrain and fired its single Hellfire missile at part of the suspected group.  The Hellfire rocket sliced through the thin air and impacted within meters of the running men.  Most escaped death and the terrorists scattered and ran before the American advisor and his muj troops could assemble and close in on them.

The operations, both Jack’s and Agency’s would be clouded in secrecy and questions would always remain as to the identity of the men on that mountaintop.

As the Afghan troops and their Special Forces partners searched the villages, they found twenty-five bodies during the initial search."

From Chapter 23 -
OPERATION ANACONDA
and Confirmed by UPI, ABC, CNN, and Italia TV News Reports:

"Jack, an advisor to the Northern Alliance, was with Gulhaider’s troops, having been sent by General Gada in Kabul.  Gada was the oldest of the Mujahadeen commanders, and had it not been for his age, he probably would have been the defense minister.  Fahim, now Defense Minster and overall commander of all Afghan forces, still consulted Gada on a regular basis, and kept him as one of his closest confidantes. 

With Jack on site, the Northern Alliance knew they would have a voice, and support in both the intelligence and medical arenas.  Over the next days Jack operated on more than two dozen Afghan troops, often removing AQ bullets from wounded muj in the middle of the desert villages, or on rocky hilltops.  The muj would stand around in awe watching him operate and stitch their wounds in the middle of nowhere.  It was a familiar scene to the Green Berets, who had used this sort of medical assistance before in Vietnam to build bonds with the Hmong, Montagnard, and other tribes fighting the Viet Cong with them.  Without fail, after each round of medical assistance, the local Pashtuns also watching would voluntarily provide him with al-Qaida intelligence."

This is my wife.  I seriously suggest to my enemies that they do not even think about harming this woman again, I will come after you [***], and I will find you.  Now you are warned.

Jack Idema
Prisoner of War
CMDR Task Force Saber/7
c/o General Zorodin
Pulacharke Prison
Pulacharke, Kabul, Afghanistan

[*] SuperPat Note to Feds: Jack means purely in legal context of course.

PS: There is no additional risk in putting her picture here now since slimy weblogs have already plastered it all over the internet for the terrorists.  Besides, she is not afraid of them either.

The Geneva Convention Books about the laws and rules that certain bloggers say do not exist.

The press have called TASK FORCE SABER 7 personnel "mercenaries."  One headline from the NY Times (ala Jason Blair hype) is in some of our banners saying "Mercenaries in Afghan Case Get 8 to 10 years."  It is clear that these men are not, nor ever were mercenaries. See: GC Protocols Article 47.  The TF SABER/7 Geneva Convention Legal Brief/Letter clearly forecloses any argument to even consider they are or were "mercenaries." 

It is undisputable that all seven of the defendants had Geneva Convention POW status.  POW status is established by simply asserting the status upon capture or arrest in a conflict area.  At that point you have POW status.[1]  After that, it is up to the high contracting party (one of the countries that is a party to the conflict) to either accept or deny status.  However, status continues until such time as a Geneva Military Tribunal meets and either awards permanent status, or rejects status.  But, and this is an important but, from the moment of assertion, a person "in custody" or "confinement" has automatic status the moment they assert that status, either verbally or in writing.[2]   TASK FORCE SABER 7 personnel did that very quickly, and followed it up in writing.

Within 24 hours they asserted their Geneva Convention Status, within 30 days they asserted status in writing, and 60 days later they filed a complete legal grounds brief with the Central Information Bureaux in Switzerland, and copied the Red Cross- the guardians of the Geneva Convention.[3]

Jack Speaks Out -

My name is Jack Idema, I've hated Jonathan since I was three and could pronounce it.  I never really liked "Keith" either.  My friends call me Jack, and my enemies call me every name in the book, and then some.  Bin Laden and Hekmatyar and every al-Qaida and Taliban terrorist in the world call me some things I'm not allowed to write here- because my goal is to bring this war to them all over the world– wherever they may hide, sleep, or cower.  This is a war, this ain't Sunday School folks. Do you want another few thousand Americans diving out windows in flames from 110 stories above the streets of New York?

I am a Green Beret, not a candy striper, or a wannabe, or some fake drunk at a bar claiming all his missions were classified and he has to kill you if he talks about it.  I've come close to killing bin Laden twice, and found him five times, and that makes me better at this than the FBI, and a lot of other people.  This is why the FBI hates me, and my guys, because they are the Federal Bureau of Investigation and we are a storm of interdiction.  We stop the bastards before they kill more Americans– we don't show up afterwards with blue windbreakers and forensic squads hoping to identify the bodies.  I get close to bin Laden because I live and work with the Northern Alliance Afghans and I'm not afraid to ride straight into hell with a few guys and a lot of bullets.  And this isn't bullshit, and I've got the pictures and evidence to prove it, so one day you will be seeing that too.

You can't fight terrorists with law enforcement and prosecution, Clinton tried that for eight years.  You can't do it, they are animals– they are not human, just ask the families that lost their loved ones on 9/11.  When the terrorists capture us they cut off our heads on television.  When we capture them they complain that we don't let them piss for twelve hours.  Well, sorry about that motherfucker, you were about to drive explosive rigged gas tankers into Bagram and kill 500 American soldiers in a ball of flames.  You should be glad I didn't defenestrate you.  I believe that real Americans want real counter-terrorist operations, not bullshit press junkets and canned PR stories from PAOs that shot a gun once in their life on the basic training qualification range.  I didn't start this fucking war, not the one with bin laden, nor the one with the press, they started it, but I will finish it, or die in the process.

This page really ought to be called Jack Fights Back.  After nine months of vitriolic (our favorite word now) lies by the press and these jerk-offs at Flogging the Simian, after attacks on our families by the press and the FBI, after repeated physical attacks on us by Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists trying to collect Bin Laden’s reward on me, and after attacks by every two-bit conman fraud "author" and "journalist" trying to make a buck off our story and our misery, I am finally speaking out.  Not through some fleabag wannabe journalist, but through this website with my own words.  Last month I was lucky enough to get a chance to speak directly to the public for the first time, on a live radio show in Fayetteville, North Carolina, home of the 82^nd Airborne Division and the US Army Special Forces, along with most of the other Special Ops units I have been part of or affiliated with, or had the honor of working with over the past 30 years.

The show was hosted by Chris Chaos and his partner Lindsey.  I can’t thank them enough for the opportunity to speak for myself, unfiltered, unfettered, unabridged, and most of all, un-spun.  It was the ONLY time I have ever agreed to a taped or on-camera interview (other than our in-court statements during two trial hearings).  Dozens of "journalists" have asked, written, and shown up at Pulacharke Prison with cameras only to be sent away by us.  I did this one interview because it is my home, and because of the recent attacks on my wife.   She was arrested in her pajamas by the US Marshals, at the behest of the FBI, on a phony warrant (and released hours later with a pitiful apology).  She has been threatened and interrogated by the FBI (seems they are working more for Osama bin Laden than against him) and she has been assaulted, threatened, and harassed by a variety of press, pseudo-press, and private parties.  She has been stalked, had sugar put in her gas tank, assaulted in the dead of night, and been slandered to inth degree by the scumbags at Flogging (they also threatened her in writing), and so many other make believe “journalists.”  No one has gotten her story right, my story right, our story right, or any story related to this right.  Most have outright lied intentionally.

So now, I am fighting back.  This website is just the beginning.  Next will come lawsuits, civil and criminal complaints, and pure unadulterated vendetta. [*]

Get ready folks because it is coming.  Like the War on Terror, some of it you will read about here, some you will hear about on the front pages of your local papers, and some you will never hear about.  But believe me when I tell you, a whirlwind is coming and hell is coming with it, for our enemies, and the enemies of America.  This is my Holy War.  And no enemy will survive unscathed. [**]

Let the Dice Fly High.....
And fuck any of you that try to stop me….
I’m a Green Beret, Get over it...

Courage Forward, &
God Bless America,
Jack

PS: I'm sitting in our 30x30 living room with hand carved sofas for twenty guests, and thirty steel padded chairs for low-level soldiers and bodyguards, drinking Tuborg, Fosters, Vodka, and Heineken (Brent is - since I hate Heineken).  We have a laptop, a phone, private bedroom, private bathroom, two houseboys, one water boy, satellite TV with the Playboy Channel, two DVD Players (our friends from Bagram Airbase just brought us another 100 DVDs), two VCRs a huge TV, and a gym.  Commander Massoud's picture is on every wall.  And we are still tracking bin Laden and Hekmatyar even from in here.  So fuck Khalilzad, Karzai, and their and Taliban buddies.

PPS: May 10, 2005- I guess Khalilzad read our website, because the bastard arranged for the release of hundreds of terrorists this week.  Two America's most wanted terrorists were granted amnesty today (Hekmatyar and Mullah Omar) and the Taliban Minister of Foreign Affairs is now walking around Kabul free after having killed tens of thousands.  Meanwhile, no one remembers all the Green Berets that died here over the last three years.  So, the terrorists we all captured in 2001 did just two years in jail, and Caraballo gets that much time for taking a picture of me (that's all he was EVER accused of- taking pictures) arresting Bin Laden's adopted son-in-law.  This is some twisted world and our government is more fucked up than I originally thought.

Best way to get a terrorist to talk.  Feed the son-of-a-bitch this flaming shit for a week and he will personally take you to bin Laden.  However, Ed insists he loves it.  To get my Pulacharke Recipe visit my recipe page.

The Picture below, which appeared on the front cover of the New York Times Bestselling book, THE HUNT FOR BIN LADEN, shows three members of TASK FORCE SABER 7 walking across the northern desert.  Far left is "Z" who was not captured, but escaped as Jack kept the NDS at bay.  Middle is Jack, and to the right is Major Ezmerai.

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سخنان بیرونی جک

نام من جک آیدیما میباشد، واززمان سه سالگی از نام جاندن نفرت دارم ومیشود استفاده کنم. نام کید هم خراب است، دوستانم بنام جک صدا میزنند ودشمنانم بهر نام در کتاب یاد میکنند. وهیکمتیار وتمام القاعده وترورستان بنام مردن من را یاد میکنند. بخاطریکه حدف من جمع آوری ایشان میباشد، در هرجای که پنهان باشند، خواب باشند ویا از ترس دولا شده باشند. این یک جنگ است، این رخصتی مکتب نیست، آیا میخواهید که یک باردیگر چندین هزار امریکایی جمب کنند از 110 منزل بالا به روی سرک در شهر نیورک؟

من یک گرین بریت هستم، کدام چاکلیت پوست کن نیستم، وبعضی اشخاص نشسته سخن های زیاد زده اند اگر دراین باره سخن بزنند گویا کشته میشوند. من دوبار به اوسامه بن لادین نزدیک بودم که اورا ازبین ببرم، وپنج بار من منطقه اورا پیدانموده بودم، ومن خیلی نسبت به اف بی آی خوبتر بودم واز بعضی دیگر اشخاص، به همین دلیل اف بی آی ازمن نفرت دارند واز اشخاص من. بخاطر که آنها تحقیق کننده گان بریو میباشند وما محروم کننده میباشیم، ما استاد نمودیم این احمق ها را پیش از این که دیگر امریکایی ها را ازبین ببرند. ما این را نشان نمی دهیم از چی طریق ما به بن لادین نزدیک میشویم، بخاطر که ما نمی ترسیم دویدن ویا راندن به دوزخ یعنی ازجنگ البته همرای چندین اشخاص وهمرای مرمی های بسیار. واین دروغ نمی باشد. ومن تصویر ها وفلم ها دارم که ثبوت نمایم، ویک روز شما خواهید دید.

شما نمیتوانید جنگید همرای تروریستان همرای اجرای قانون وتحقیقاتش، کیلینتون برای مدت هشت سال کوشش نمود. شما نمیتوانید اینطور انجام بدهید. آنها حیوان میباشند، انسان نیستند. ازفامیل های بپرسید که دوست ترین اشخاص نزدیک خود را ازدست دادند در 9/11. وقتیکه تروریستان دستگیر مینمایند در تیلویزیون سرهارا قطه میکنند، وقتیکه ما ایشان را دستگیر مینمایم ایشان شکایت مینمایند که گویا ما ایشان را برای دوازده ساعت به ادرار کردن اجازه ندادیم. خا، معذرت میخواهیم پست ها، شما میخواستید 500 نفر امریکایی دیگر را همرای آتش تانکر های تیل بسوزانید. من باور دارم امریکایی های واقعی گروپ ضد ترورزم را وفعالیت های ضد ترورزمی رامیخواهند ودروغ رانمخواهند مانند قصه های دروغ پی اَ او که در زنده گی شان یک مرمی فیر نکرده هستند. من این جنگ را شروع نکردم، همرای بن لادین، همرای مطبعات، بلکه ایشان این جنگ را شروع نمودند مگر ما ختم میکنیم بخیرویا در این پروسه خواهیم مرد.

این صفحه واقعاً باید یاد شود که جک دوباره میجنگد. بعداز هفت ماه سوزنده (این جهان دوستداشتنی ما حالا) دروغ ها را شندید ازطرف مطبوعات تخصوص ازطرف فلاگن وسمین. تعداز حمله بالا فامیل های ما توسط مطبوعات واف بی آی. ومکرراً حمله های فزیکی توسط طالبان والقاعده بالای ما بخاطر جایزه گرفتن ازطرف اوسامه بن لادین.  وحمله ها توسط قصه گویان، نوسنده گان، وجورنالیست هاکه کوشیدن قصه های مارا به بد بختی تبدیل نمایند. در آخیر من میخواهم سخن هایم را به بیرون بکشم. نه ازطریق دسکول های کیک دار جورنالیست ها بلکه ازطریق ویبسایط ما که کلمات خود ما را بشنوید.

چندین روز قبل خوشبختانه من این فرصت را پیدانمودم که همرای مردم مستقیم صحبت نمایم البته برای اولین بار بوده در رادیو زنده در شهر ناردکارلانا در خانه خود در حوزه هوایی هشتاد دوم درقوای نظامی اسپیشل فورس. وهمرای بعضی دیگر قوای فعالیتی مخصوص البته. من البته یک پارت ازایشان بودم ویا عضوی شان بودم ویا عزت که در مدت 30 سال به وظیفاتم داشتم. این نشان دادن توسط کریس کاوس وهمکارش لیندسی درست شده ویا نشان داده شده است. من ازایشان تشکری کرده نمیتوانم بخاطریکه در این فرصت که من درباره خودم صحبت نمودم، بیدون خلاصه، بیدون کدام راهنمایی وبیدون کدام معذرت خواهی، وزیادتر شان بیدون که ازخود چیزی اظافه کنند. همان وقتی بود که من موافق بودم ثبت نمایم ویا مصاحبه در مقابل کمره بکنم( وگرنه درجلسات محکمه تمام اظهارات ما ودر بندی خانه پلچرخی دوباره ایشان را مسترد ویا دوباره روان مینمودیم) واین رامن انجام دادم که بخاطر این جا خانه من است وبخاطر که تازه بالای خانم من حمله شده است. مانم من توسط آمرپولیس در امریکا در زیر لباس خواب دستگیرش کردن(وبعداز یک ساعت دوباره آزادش نمودند همرای معذرت خواهی زیاد) بالایش ازطرف اف بی آی تحقیق شده، همرایش رفتاربد شده، خانم من را به ستوه آوردن ازطرف مطبوعات، هیچ کس قصه درست خانم من رانشنیده است همچنان ازمارا. وزیاد تر این قصه ها که در نزد شما موجود میباشد به دروغ وبقصد نوشتن.

وحالا من دوباره میجنگم، این ویبسایط تنها شروات است، بعداً حقوقیت خواهد شد البته در باره شکایت جنایی، حقوقی وبیدون کدام تعریف ویا جازدن ویا خراب نمودن کینه خانواده گی. آماده باشید که این برای آمدن آماده است. مانند جنگ در ترور. دربعضی جای شما آماده هستیدکه بشنوید، درباره بعضی آن درصفحه نخست اخبار شهری تان خواهید ملاحظه نمودید ودرباره بعضی آن هرگزنخواهد شنید. مگر من باور داشته باشید که وقتی من بگویم گردباد خواهد آمدبرای دشمنان ما وبرای دشمنان امریکا، این جنگ خواهد بود، وهیچ دشمن کمک نخواهد شد وزیان نخواهد ماند.

اجازه بدهید که دانه های کمسایی بلند پروازکند....

وشما احمق ها کوشش کنید من را استاد نماید....

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Some Background Information about the SuperPatriots and Task Force Commander Jack:

Prisoner Of War status has become a hot issue in the War On Terror. The legal grounds to deny POW and Geneva Convention status to al-Qaida, Iraqi, and Taliban terrorists is simple-- they don't meet the requirements of Rule 4 of the Geneva Convention for Combatant Prisoners.  Few terrorists do.  To see these rules, follow this footnote: READ RULE 4.

Terrorists don't wear uniforms, have ID Cards, carry their weapons openly, wear unit patches (what would it say? AQ Killer Group with twin burning towers as a logo?), nor do they follow any of the other guidelines required by Rule 4, except that they might be subordinate to a commander (like bin Laden, Hekmatyar, Mullah Omar, etc).   But being subordinate to a madman does give rise to GC protections, you must follow all of the requirements of Rule 4.

Some people say that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.  Cute saying, but not legally correct.  Freedom fighters and guerillas, historically, wear uniforms- no matter how ragged or mismatched, they carry their arms openly, rarely target civilian women and children, have military ranks and often have Identity Cards. Some examples include; Tito's resistance in WWII, Cuba- 1950's, Dominican Republic- 1960's, Nicaraguan Sandinistas- 1970's, the US backed Contras and the US opposed Salvadoran FMLN- 1980's, Karen Rebels-1990's, and Commander Massoud's Northern Alliance 1996-2004. And, especially, Commander Massoud's Mujahadeen resistance fighting the Soviets throughout the 80's.

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دوسیه درمحــکمه مکمل بوده در حقیقت اسناد هـــای انکار ناپزیر ازمرد های قوای فعالیتی سیبر /7 وبندی های جنگی در زیر قانون جینواکــــــــانوینشن وپیوند نامه ها راهمرای مینماید هرچی که باشد به این اشخاص اجازه ندادند که دوسیه خود را بیبینند که به دفاعیه خود استفاده نمایند قاضی بختیاری که دوسیه را ازاین اشخاص پنهان نــموده است تنها به جورنالیست ها داده کــــه ایشان براش پول پرداخت نــــــموده است البته درزیر میز کارش که آن دیسیه دربرمیگیرد تصاویر قوای فعالیتی سیبر/7 را در ینوفورم نظــامی فعالیت همرای قوای بین الملی ملاقات ها بامقامــــات بلندپایه ورسمی دولت تصـــــــاویر اراده جات همــــرای پلیت وزارت دفاع و کارت هـــــای نظامی برید من زرو وجگرن امین که مربوط وزارت دفاع بوده گرفته است ویزه های نظـــــــامی افغانی و اوراق دادن صلاحیت ازطرف قوماندانان بلند رتبه شهید احــمد شاه مسعود میباشد کارت هـــای شناخت امریکایی پــــــاسپورت های امــــــریکایی کارت هــای جنیواکـــــــانوینشن واسناد های نظامی که همه فوراٌ توسط اف بی آی گرفته شده است وهرگز نخواهیم دید چرا؟ بخاطرکه در ابوگرب درجـــــــــولای 2004 تصاویر گرفتند که دولت امریکا ازآن میترسید بــــحرحال توسط قـــاضی وسارنوال طالبان روز های جلسه محــــــکماتی ماپیش میرفت.

تمـــــــام افغان ها مبارزه نموده است حتــــــا آن اشخاص کـــــه دستگیر نشدند وگریختن تمــــام افسرهــــای برای خدمت هستند هرکدام آنها رتبه های عالی در نزد جبعه متحــــــد دارند که در وزارت دفاع قبلی وظیفه انجام میدادند.

اخیراً درفبـــــروری 7/2005 درمحکمه استنـــاف افغانستــان یـک اعتراض بزرگ که توسط هردوکشور بود امــــــــــریکا و افغانستان که دریـــــک دادرسی کــــوچک البته اسناد های ارایه گــردید که التبه تصویری وغیر تصویری بود که از تروستان بوده که بیان نموده است که هیچ کسی ایشــــان را شکنجه ننموده است.
 

قــــــانون جینواکانوینشن خیلی واضع گفته است دربخش سوم ودرماده 72  که البته دربــــاره حق دفاعی بوده است وگفته که هرمتهم حـــــق دارد کـــــــه از ترجمـــــــــانان ومنحیث معاون استفاده  درجریان تحقیقـــــــات دادرسی ها وجلسات محـــــکمه کمـــک بخواهد واین حق را هم دارند کـــــــه بخاطــــــر تبدیلی ترجمانان اعتراض به تبدیلی آن کنند.

عبدالباسط بختیاری طالب کـــه دایماً این قاعده هـارا مشکستاند وخـــلاف ازقانون مینمود وهیچ جـــــورنالیست بطـــور درست راپورنداده است لیــــکن بعضی گفته است که ایشان مشکل در ترجمـــانی دارند.

برای زرو اجازه نداده بودند که برای جــــــک ترجمانی کند در جــــــــریان جلسات محکمه در حقیقت زرو به جک گفت کــــه ترجمه مکمل غلط بوده وچیزی که سارنوال نگفته است اوتکراراً ازدلخود ترجمه نموده است وقتیکه زرو کوشید کــــــه ترجمه نماید وقتیکه درصدارت وامنیت ملــــــی برگشت نمودند ازطرف امینت ملی واف بی آی برای 30 روز زولانه گــــردیده است البته ازطــــــــرف امراله در24/7 میباشد.

ترجمانان قاعده های بین الملی را پامــــــال نـــموده است این اشخاص بخاطـــــــر احترام در قانون جینواکانوینشن که بخاطر بندی های جنگی میباشد وقاضی عبدالباسط بختیاری که تخلــــف ونادیده گرفته است قــــانون بین الملـــــــی را وتوسط این دولت قـــانون بین الملـی امضا گردیده است دردسمــــــــبر 10/1948 درزیرنظر یــــــک جنرال ملل متحد اسمبلی ریسه لوشن 217 بخش سوم که بطور آشکار این قانون را خلاف نموده است این کـــدام اپشن نبوده این قانون بین الملی است اگـــــرافغانــــــستان ضرورت به این قـــــانون دارد مکلف است که این قــــانون را تعقیب نمـــــایند اگر کمپنی انجو هرکه بودند درباره پول که به این کشورکمک میشد فعلاً کناره خواهد گرفت.

محکمه قاضی بختیاری محکمه نبوده بلکه یــــــــک جلسه های کانفرانس بوده است البته مطابق بـــختیاری سه شــــاهد را تست نمود  یـــک از ایشـــان قسم به صـــداقت وراستی ننموده است تنها دلیل معلومات به مردم بوده است اگـــر حقوق را پـــــاین بــــــگزارید آن یــــــــک جلسه مطبوعاتی بوده است یک جلسه محکما تی نبوده است وصفارت امریکا بخاطـــــــــــرگفتن مردم رایـــــگان وجبعه اتفاق یک نفر ترجمان را برای نیمه روز تهیه دیده است.

نامه به جینواکــانوینشن در باره بندی های جنــگی نظر به قانون بین الملی همه آن به انــــگلیسی بیان شده است بعضی آن در پاین بیان شده هم است     

مواد برگزیده #1 خواهاشات از طـــــــرف بندی هــــــای جنگی جینواکانوینشن از طرف قوایی فعـــــالیتی سیبر /7 الـــــــــبته نــــامه اصلی:

قاضی درتمــــام جلسات حاضر بـــــوده درآخرین ورق حکم او گفته است که تمام ما همــــرای قـــوای مقاومت کــــار ووظیفه انـــــجام دادیم. وناوقتر مـــــــا فهــــــمیدیم که قاضی مـــربوط طالبان بوده است، ظــــــــاهراً، بعضی قسمت دولت کتهگوری های قوماندانان شهید احــــــمد شاه مسعود قوای نظامی متحد (مجاهیدین جبعه متحد) میباشد مـــــانند غیر قانونی ویا بیدون شناخت وتضاد درداخل دولـــت بــــوده، در حــــقیقت ایشان در جریان جنــگ در سال 2001و 2002 منسوب به دولت امریکا بــــوده است. محکمه و دولــت حــــامد کرزی این را هم نادیده گرفته است کـــــــه جبعـه متحد مربوط به شهید احــــــــمد شاه مسعود هم در سال 2001 پارت کـــــــــــانفرانس بن بوده است (قسمیکه شناسایی شده ایشان اشخاص مــــعقول، مشروع، و برحـــــــق به دولت  بـــــوده و اشخــــــاص کــــــه تبعیده شده هستند) وپـــــــارت دولت تعین گردیده هستند کـــــه تعغیر نمی کند تا دسمبر 2004.

For the Record:

Inside the File- the proof of POW Status

The Court's file contains complete evidence that the men of TASK FORCE SABER/7 are POWs under the Geneva Conventions and the  accompanying protocols. However, the men were  never allowed to see the file, or to use it in their defense.  The file that Judge Bakhtyari concealed from everyone, except journalists that paid him under the table, contained pictures of TF SABER/7 in military uniforms, operating with international military forces, in meetings with top government officials, pictures of their vehicles- with Ministry of Defence license plates,[4] Lt. Zorro's and Major Amin's Afghan military ID Cards, Afghan military visas, and authorization documents from Commander Massoud's top-level Northern Alliance commanders and Karzai's Corps Commanders. The Americans' US ID cards, US Passports, GC ID cards, and military authorization documents were immediately removed from evidence by the FBI and have never been seen again.  Why?  Because of Abu Ghraib.  The US government was still reeling from the Abu Ghraib pictures in July 2004, and were not about to be dragged into another abuse scandal.  The Americans and Afghans fighting the terrorists, were convicted by a Taliban Judge and a Taliban Prosecutor before the first day of trial ever began.  In fact, no witnesses ever testified against the defendants, nor was the defense allowed to call witnesses.[5]

All Afghan Combatants, including those that escaped and were not captured, were serving officers, commissioned ranks, in the United Front Military Forces (a.k.a. Northern Alliance) and the Afghan Ministry of Defence (previously the Northern Alliance.)

Most recently, on February 7th, 2005, the Afghan Court of Appeals, over great objections by BOTH governments (US & Karzai) cleared the men of ALL torture charges in a secret hearing where secret undercover video and audio evidence was played for the court. 

Photo of the Motion and Jack showing a top National Security Advisor giving mission approval to Jack, Zorro, and Task Force Saber/7 on video.  The tape disappeared from evidence the very next day.

The Geneva Convention is very clear on this issue.  Section III Article 72 specifically outlines and mandates the "Right of Defence"  ß II, which states "Accused person shall, unless they freely waive such assistance, be aided by an interpreter, both during preliminary investigation and during the hearing in court.  They shall have the right at any time to object to the interpreter and to ask for his replacement.

Taliban Judge Abdul Baset Bakhtyari repeatedly violated this rule over and over, in full view of the press and even laughed about it on numerous occasions, yet not one journalist reported this-- a few journalists reported that sometimes "there were 'problems' with the translation."

Lt. "Zorro" Banderas  was NOT allowed to translate for Jack during the trial.  In fact, when Zorro told Jack that the translator was incorrectly repeating Jack's words to the court and saying things the prosecution never said, Zorro was threatened by NDS officials, and later by the FBI.  Later that day, when the group returned to SADERAT, the NDS Prison, Amrullah and the FBI had Zorro thrown in wrist and leg chains for thirty days, where he remained 24/7.

If you get right down to it, the trial was a press conference, not a trial.  Bakhtyari's Court basically held a press conference, because the three terrorists that did "testify" were not sworn in, and according Bakhtyari, were for "public information purposes only."  The Embassy, under pressure from the Northern Alliance, finally provided an interpreter for one half day.[6] 

The translator requirements, are also rules of international law, required in the trial of ANY foreign national, regardless of GC POW status.  Bakhtyari's violations of this international law, signed by the government of Afghanistan and adopted into law on December 10, 1948 under UN General Assembly Resolution 217 A (III) are patently egregious.  They are not an option, they are international law.  Over the recent months, Taliban officials, now back in the Karzai government, have been arresting Americans and even detaining American Department of Defense personnel entering the country through Kabul on Official Orders.  The tide is quickly changing against America in Afghanistan.  Any company, NGO, or individual considering investing money in Afghanistan ought to be thinking twice and DOD contractors should be getting guarantees from the US government in writing as to their safety against false charges and Taliban run trials.

EXCERPT FROM THE Task Force Saber Geneva Convention POW Status Request

Filed in October 2004-POW Status Demand

Exempt From Postal Dues Under Article #110

To:             Geneva Convention (ATTN: Article 140)

                  Information Bureaux and Central Agency

                  Prisoner Of War Status and Request

                  C/O Office of the United Nations

                  High Commissioner for Human Rights

                  Geneva, Switzerland

Dear Commissioner of the Central Information Bureaux

For the Geneva Convention of 1949 on Prisoners Of War;
The following individuals and persons;

1. Jack K. Idema, American
   Commander, Task Force Saber/7

2. Brent Bennett, American
   Exec. Officer, Task Force Saber/7

3. Edward Caraballo, American
   War Correspondent,
   Accompanying TF Saber/7

4. Ezmerai Amin, Afghan
   Major, Task Force Saber/7 –

5. Wahid Rasuli Banderas, Afghan
   Lt., Task Force Saber/7 –

6. Sahail Sahibi, Afghan
   Administrative Non-Combatant –

7. Sherzai Ahmadi, Afghan
   Facilities Worker Non-Combatant –

Hereby request immediate Prisoner Of War status under the applicable Geneva Conventions for Protected persons relative to:  A) Combatants, B) War Correspondents, and C) Civilian Non-Combatants in time of war.

Specifically:

IDEMA, BENNETT, BANDERAS, EZMERAI, each claim POW status as combatant prisoners of war under the following circumstances and criteria;

1. Each were employed by the U.S. Counter-Terrorist Group;

2. Each carried their arms openly;

3. Each was responsible and subordinate to a commander.

4. The unit designation was Task Force 7, later changed to Task Force Saber/7, the unit, under the original name of Task Force Saber operated in Afghanistan against Taliban and al-Qaida forces since the start of hostilities in October 2001, and was from the start of the war until present time, subordinate to both, a commander in the United States and/or to the corps commanders of the United Front Military Forces in Afghanistan.

5. Each man wore a distinctive uniform and recognizable insignia;

   1. An American Defense Logistics Agency issue uniform;

   2. An American flag on the left breast and right shoulder [Lt Banderas & Major Amin also wore Afghan flags];

   3. Uniform standardized combat equipment (i.e., LBE, boots, etc.);

   4. A distinctive emblem on all aircraft and vehicles used in military operation (i.e., A/C N.A. symbol – vehicles American and N.A. flag);

   5. A distinctive I.D. card worn on military operations.

6. Each man operated according to the laws and customs of war and abided by the Geneva Convention;

7. Each man carried a Geneva Convention identity card with name, rank, duty, position, identity number, and organization.

Note: See Articles 13(2), 13(3), 13(4) of the Geneva Convention entered into force 21 October 1950.  The Combatant version is not available, but states similar or the same criteria.  [US Embassy Consul Sandra Ingram refused to provide copies of the Convention to the prisoners in direct violation of International Law.]

Excerpt Below- Paragraph #1 from the Geneva POW Status Request From the Original TF SABER/7 Letter:

The judge presiding over the various trials conducted announced during his final verdict that we were all part of or working for the “resistance forces.”  [It was later disclosed that this Judge was a Member of the Taliban].  Apparently, some parts of the government, have now categorized Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud’s United Military Forces (the Northern Alliance Mujahadeen) as illegal and/or unrecognized, and in opposition to the Interim Government, in spite of the fact that they were U.S. allies during the 2001–2004 war.[7]  The Court, and Karzai Government has also ignored the fact that Commander Massoud’s Northern Alliance were part of the 2001 Bonn Conference (which recognized them as the legitimate government in exile) and were made part of the Interim Government, which would not change until December 2004.

Readers Note: How does a Taliban Judge end up presiding over the trial of Anti-Taliban Forces, specifically American citizens and Northern Alliance military officers fighting the Taliban?

A.  Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:

1. Members of the armed forces of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members [This and #1 apply to Jack, Bennett, and the other Americans not originally captured/arrested by Karzai's Pro-Taliban government] of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belong to a Party to the conflict and operation in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movement fulfill the following conditions:
   1. that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
   2. that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
   3. that of carrying arms openly;
   4. that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the detaining power [Major Amin, Lt. Banderas- UFMF] [Northern Alliance].
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents [Caraballo], supply contractors... [ ] provided that they  have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. [Refers to Aircrews]
6. [Refers to inhabitants, who upon invasion, take up arms]

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[  قوای نظامی جبعه متحد]

قوای نظــــــــامی جبعه متحد، بسیار مشهور به جبعه اتفـــــــاق یاد میشود جبعه متحد درزیر امـــــــر قوماندان صـــاحب شهید احمد شاه مسعود بود دردوران ریاست جــــــمهوری استاد ربانی. درجریان رژیم طالبان ایشان یــک دولت برحق وقانونی بودند، و فعالیت های شان درغربت بوده است بانگاه نمودن شمال غرب افغانستان که امـــــــکانیت 15% نبوده در این کشور. این جبعه متحد صفارت های درست نمودن در واشنگتن دوشنبه، تاشکنت، دهـــلی،ولندن، دربین دیگر جاهای بوده.  جبعه متحد بطور بسیار خوب به ملل متحد وبه ایالات متحده امریکا  قابل شناسایی بودند، ومانند یک دولت مشروع، برحــــق وقوای مقاومت درمقابل اتحاد شوروی، وپسانتر درمقابل طالبان بودند.  بنــــــــابراین، بخاطـــــر تمام قــوای فعـــــالیتی یسبر /7 که عضوی های شان رسمی تماس داشته به جبــــــــعه متحد، جگرن امین، وبریدمن بندریس نماینده گـــــان خدماتی به جبعه متحد بوده، و این هـــــــــم واضع است که ایشان چی وضع وحالت دارند.

یاداشت های بندی های جنگی

[1]جک به نماینده گی همگی مانند بندی جنگی در زیر نظر قـــــــــانون جینواکانونشن که درسال 1949 بوده است دفاع میکند.

[2] پروتـــــــکول جینواکانوینشن 1 قسمت 3 ß 2 ماده  45

1 ← قسمیــــــکه گفته شده؛ کسیکه قسمت خصومت باشد درقــدرت بیاید ویـــــــــــک گروپ مخالف آیا میشود فرض کـــــــــــرد بندی جنگی باشد، وبنابراین آیا خـــواهـد حفظ شد توسط پیمان سوم، اگــــــرمانند بندی جنگی اعـــتراض وتقاضا نمــــــــــــاید ویا تقاضا به حق دادن نمایدو یا ازطرف گروپ تقاضا به اخطار ومـــآآـــعطل به قدرت نماید ویا قدرت محافظوی نماید، آیا کدام شک خـــــواهد رخ داد دربندی که حــــــــق خودرا حق بندی گری خودراخواسته واو تـــــــــاکید و تقاضای حقیقت بنمــــاید، بنابر این که حفظ شود ازطـــــرف پیمان سوم واین پروتکول کـــــه تازمان کـــــــه تقاضایش صـــــــــلاحیت در کرسی قضاوت نماید.

ودیـــــگرنمبرهایش به انگلیسی است ازقبیل [3] ،[4]، [5]، [6]، ها.

[7] قوای نظامی جبعه متحد همچنان مــــــــا جبعه متحد بسیار مخصوصاً دریاداشت معلومات تاریخی دربالای همـــــــرای تقاضای قانونی شان وبه احـــــــــــترام روابط دوستانه شان در جینواکانوینشن. کتهگوری قاضـــــی بــــــــــختیاری درجبعه متحد ودقوای مقاومــــــت (البته مقاومت بوده است البته درمقابل طالبان) این واضـــــــع میسازدکـــه قاضی بختیاری ازطرف گروپ طـــــــالبان به این شکل کیس بدیداربوده است. بیشتر، کـــــــه تهیه مینماید در اسناد ها وقوت دادن برای جینواکانوینشن به تمام عضوی قوت های فعالیتی سیبر /7. 

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