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Please consider the plight of the Americans being held at Pulacharke prison at this moment. It's been over a year since they've been declared completely innocent by the Afghan appeals court, yet they're still being held. The question is...why? If the Afghans admit that no torture occurred (which they did), that they entered the country legally (which they did), that there was no torture (which they did), then why has the American government turned its back on them?
Put aside the question as to whether or not Jack and his men are active-duty soldiers, because that's not the question. The question is not whether he had an alleged "fraud conviction" (and that's not what it was!) The question is--if you were abroad working in a country that signed agreements to honor basic human rights of people working there in order to receive financial assistance--and then you're falsely arresting of something and thrown in prison for it--wouldn't you expect your countrymen to take up arms, or pens, or telephones and make sure that the people who are pulling the levers of power would at least be AWARE of this situation? It would seem to me that if more people were aware of this story something would have been done about it besides trying to brush it under the rug.
Wouldn't your friends and family--if you were arrested under circumstances like these in a foreign country--demand that something be done about it? Well it's time the American people did so on behalf of the Americans being held at Pulacharke. Certainly Karzai with all of the languages he speaks understands English!
It's time to turn up the heat on all our elected representatives, because this absolutely should not stand. How on earth can someone remain in detention--remain in prison--after they've been declared innocent by the country where they're being held? This whole affair is so convoluted it's beyond description, and it defies REASON! Contact your representatives and ask them why Idema, Bennett and Caraballo are STILL being held at Pulacharke when they were all declared innocent by the Afghans since at least December of last year.
To join the campaign, caoilfhionn1@gmail.com">email me and tell her you want to join the Free Jack Idema blogburst. You will be added to the blogroll and she'll send you the html code to put up for that week in case you're pressed for time and can't put something together...or you can write your own.
See the entire story over at CAO'S Blog.
Jack Idema
Pierre Legrand @ 12/14/2005 08:34:00 AMPut aside the question as to whether or not Jack and his men are active-duty soldiers, because that's not the question. The question is not whether he had an alleged "fraud conviction" (and that's not what it was!) The question is--if you were abroad working in a country that signed agreements to honor basic human rights of people working there in order to receive financial assistance--and then you're falsely arresting of something and thrown in prison for it--wouldn't you expect your countrymen to take up arms, or pens, or telephones and make sure that the people who are pulling the levers of power would at least be AWARE of this situation? It would seem to me that if more people were aware of this story something would have been done about it besides trying to brush it under the rug.
Wouldn't your friends and family--if you were arrested under circumstances like these in a foreign country--demand that something be done about it? Well it's time the American people did so on behalf of the Americans being held at Pulacharke. Certainly Karzai with all of the languages he speaks understands English!
It's time to turn up the heat on all our elected representatives, because this absolutely should not stand. How on earth can someone remain in detention--remain in prison--after they've been declared innocent by the country where they're being held? This whole affair is so convoluted it's beyond description, and it defies REASON! Contact your representatives and ask them why Idema, Bennett and Caraballo are STILL being held at Pulacharke when they were all declared innocent by the Afghans since at least December of last year.
To join the campaign, caoilfhionn1@gmail.com">email me and tell her you want to join the Free Jack Idema blogburst. You will be added to the blogroll and she'll send you the html code to put up for that week in case you're pressed for time and can't put something together...or you can write your own.
See the entire story over at CAO'S Blog.
Jack Idema
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