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| Faces of 'Jack' Idema: black ops ace, nut case |
| 2004-07-27 |
| Way to long to post, but a good background read on the guy who appears to be the Col. Kurtz of Afghanistan. Almost a decade ago, Jonathan Keith Idema sat in an Eastern North Carolina prison cell, blaming his legal woes on a vendetta by FBI agents angry that he refused to name Soviet spies who tipped him off to a nuclear smuggling operation in Lithuania. Now the Fayetteville resident sits in custody in Afghanistan, accused of running a vigilante anti-terrorist operation in which he rounded up innocent Afghans, held them in a makeshift jail and abused them. His defense? He was a good American doing his duty, only to be set up by the FBI as revenge for that Lithuanian spy caper. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #5 He may turn out to be a bad guy, but most of the torture charges have melted down to, "he looked at us cross-eyed." |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-07-27 2:19:10 PM |
| #4 I vaguely remember this "Idema" he has DIA written all over him, perhaps KCIA but definitely not CID. |
| Posted by: Col Flagg 2004-07-27 2:16:16 PM |
| #3 I remember him appearing on Imus in the Morning on MSNBC one time after he got back from Afghanistan in 2001-2002 timeframe. He was flaky then, flakier in Robin's book and even Imus (who is the flakiest of the flakey) questioned whether he was "real". Seems he is about to find out. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2004-07-27 12:39:25 PM |
| #2 he maybe crazier then a sh*thouse rat, but he's our sh*thouse rat. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-07-27 12:30:31 PM |
| #1 U.S. District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, who presided over Idema's fraud trial in 1994: "I think insanity might have been his best defense." Bwawawawawa! |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-27 11:44:09 AM |