This one is really unbelievable: Three American citizens set up their own prison in Afghanistan, because they wanted "to take part in the war on terror." According to the article, they didn't "torture" their prisoners, but did administer "some beatings." Whom did they imprison? Apparently they were "detaining men with long beards on the outskirts of Kabul who they suspected -- based on their appearance -- to be members of al Qaeda." What brilliance - they can pick out al Qaeda members in the middle of Afghanistan solely by appearance! Why aren't these guys walking the streets of Pakistan looking to pick bin Laden out of the crowd? An Afghan official said this will "definitely have a negative impact on the image of Americans" among Afghans. Ya think?!?
The fact that you put the "almost" in there makes you a better person than me. I am ashamed to admit that the way Norsk puts it makes it damn funny. To me anyway.
I was trying to be PC. I actually laughed my ass off, but didn't feel like getting in an argument with the idiots who usually show up for this kind of thing.
From the thread-starter: and from a previous report about something else having to do with Afghanistan http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=04022002-082828-8434r Hm.
Interesting why didn't they torture them? They must be weak willed. You can probably do that in iraq as well I would imagine.
It's one and the same guy. He goes by Jack and/or Keith, short for Jonathan K. Idema. He is a nut-job. He went into Afghanistan trying to capture Bin Laden on his own. He even claimed he was close to catching him until a Predator drone scared bin Laden away. He's a glory hunter and a self-serving prick that no on in the SpecOps community respects. This guy is not on the government payroll. He's after the bin Laden reward and the name it'd make for him. Robin Moore, in his old age, is unfortunately completely duped by him and focuses a great deal of "The Hunt for bin Laden" on him. He's nothing more than a present day Bo Gritz.
A few more things: Idema was a parachute rigger in the 11th SFG-A, a NG support unit that was disbanded in the mid-1990s. This hardly makes him the CT-expert he claims to be. He also claims to have been in El Salvador in the mid 1980s but only a small amount of people from 7thSFG-A where there. He also sued Dreamworks SKG for $150million because he claimed 'The Peacemaker' ripped off his life story. Predictably, he lost. Also interesting is that Ed Caraballo, one of the other Americans arrested, is a free-lance photojournalist/cameraman who has done the shooting on documentaries for National Geographic.
No problem. I have no love for the current admin. but I'm making sure that people don't assume Idema is a hired thug, especially given the current ordeal with Abu Ghraib. As for the second person I mentioned, Caraballo the former National Geographic videographer, here's the latest on him: He has not signed the Privacy Act Waiver as Idema and Bennett, which states "''In accordance with the Privacy Act (PL 93-579) passed by Congress in 1974, U.S. Department of State personnel are not permitted to release any information not deemed to be in the public domain, regarding private individuals, without the express written consent of the concerned citizen(s).'' http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-7-2004_pg4_8 It gets more interesting every day.