Friday, September 29, 2006

Jack Idema newsflash

Jack And Brent Are In Serious Trouble



Goodbye friends,

This does not look good, not good at all.



Here's Kender, quoting Jack:



Gavin said...

Someone needs to explain this whole Idema business to me again, cos I've never understood it, it makes no sense. Like or loathe the USA, it doesn't generally disown its own special agents and abandon them to the enemy for no reason. I dunno, something tells me we're interfering in spooks' territory here. That's why, although I feel for the guy, I never got onboard with this JI blogburst thing, I thought, for all I knew this could be harming him more than helping him. Hope I'm wrong, and hope he's OK.

James Higham said...

I'm with this last point of view. We don't know enough about the actuality of the thing to know precisely where to place our sympathy. Good f-ing luck this evening,by the way,DK.

Devil's Kitchen said...

There are conflicting rumours about this case: was Idema on Black Ops, as he claims, or was he simply an unofficial bounty-hunter? I basically summed up my attitude in this post, back in May.

"Whether [Idema & Co.] were in Afganistan with or without the US's blessing, whether they were operating as part of the army or as the freelancers that many allege them to be; these things are irrelevent. The government should protect its people and, whichever way you cut it, the US government has signally failed in that duty."

That's basically what I think; some claim that Idema is a frauster. OK, if that is the case, he should be serving a sentence in a US jail. Some say that he was Black Ops; if that is the case, the US could easily cut a deal to get him out. Some say that he is a bounty=hunting freelancer; still, if that is the case, he is hunting people who are in theory also wanted by the Afghan government, so why are they in jail.

In any circumstances, if they should be in jail, then they should be in a US jail. We are civilised and we should not be leaving our citizens in a hell-hole where they are tortured and, any way you cut it, do not receive a fair trial.


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