"Feigned Retreat"

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Today we will look at the tactic of "Feigned Retreat". A feigned retreat is when one army fakes (Jacks specialty) a retreat hoping that the opposing army will pursue and then leads them into a ambush. Well Junior Cape Crusaders our imprisoned POW Hero "Groucho"General Jack Idema is pulling out all the stops. Jacks knows he has as much of a chance of getting released as he does flying the next space shuttle mission. So what does Jack do? He feigns his release by using Ed "Chico" Caraballo hoping that the US Media will chase so that Jack can ambush them and it looks like he found a turkry in Caroltta Gall of the NY Times! Let's take a look....

"Updated: 02:09 PM EDTJournalist Jailed in Kabul Feels Abandoned by U.S.By CARLOTTA GALL, The New York Times

Edward Caraballo is a four-time Emmy award winner.KABUL, Afghanistan - On visitors day at Kabul's once-notorious Pul-i-Charkhi prison, there is one inmate who stands out from the Afghans, wearing blue shades and an American T-shirt. It is Edward Caraballo, 43, an independent filmmaker from the Bronx, who was one of the three Americans found guilty last year by a Kabul court of running a private jail and torturing hostages.

"I usually wear Afghan clothes," he said during the visit earlier this month, referring to the baggy shirt and pants that is the local dress. "But today is the Fourth of July, so I put on my T-shirt in honor of my country."A year ago this month, Afghan security forces raided a residential house here in the Afghan capital and arrested three Americans: Jonathan K. Idema, 48, known as Jack, a former member of the Special Forces and the ringleader of the group; Brent Bennett, 28, an Army-trained forward air controller; and Mr. Caraballo.

The security personnel said they found a number of Afghans detained in the house and signs of interrogations. The Americans were shown little mercy by the Afghan authorities or their American counterparts in Afghanistan and were sentenced to 8 to 10 years in prison. The terms were later reduced by an appeals court judge; Mr. Caraballo is now serving a two-year sentence.A year after their arrests, as their case nears its final appeal before the Afghan Supreme Court, the three Americans are chafing for freedom, living among more than a thousand Afghan and foreign prisoners, including some members of Al Qaeda.

They receive a weekly visit from a United States Embassy official - often an Afghan staff member who brings them mail and mineral water - and the occasional journalist."I feel abandoned by my own government," said Mr. Caraballo, a four-time Emmy award winner, who had followed Mr. Idema and Mr. Bennett to Afghanistan for a documentary on their hunt for terrorists.Caught up with them in the raid, Mr. Caraballo says he was swept into prison and put on trial, despite his status as a journalist.

Neither Washington nor any professional organizations have taken up his case.Now, after a year in detention, and in a bid to win his freedom, he is seeking to separate himself from Mr. Idema, whom Washington has said is neither a member of the American military nor an undercover antiterrorist operative, as he has claimed. In April, Mr. Caraballo succeeded in moving to Block 1, a compound for less dangerous criminals that stands slightly separate from the main Soviet-built prison on the eastern outskirts of Kabul where the others remain.He now has his own cell. "I moved to be on my own, really, to express the fact that I am not part of Jack's group," he said in a recent interview in the prison grounds.

"I came to Afghanistan as a filmmaker to document this group."Mr. Idema wanted a journalist to document his mission, he said. "I wanted to see the state of affairs in Afghanistan and what the U.S. influence was here, so it seemed like a perfect match," he said.Former colleagues have suggested that Mr. Caraballo was hired by Mr. Idema to make the film about him, and therefore had crossed the line between being an independent filmmaker and a member of Mr. Idema's team.But Mr. Caraballo said he was acting like any journalist embedded with a military unit, eating with the unit and using the military's transportation but maintaining editorial control over his film.He said that although he had been hired by Mr. Idema in the past for editing and Web site work, that was not the case on this project.

He paid for his own flight to Afghanistan, he said, using money that one of the three major American broadcast networks had supplied as an "investment in the project." He would not name the network. He does not deny that the interrogations took place, but he said he was not present for many of them and was not ultimately responsible for what went on. "It was not my job to decide if the techniques were proper or improper," he said. "It's my job to report it, and to let the world decide on what the imagery represents."Missing home and his 3-year-old daughter, Mr. Caraballo is focusing his efforts on surviving in the volatile atmosphere of an Afghan prison.He converted to Islam to gain the acceptance of the Afghan inmates, who would not eat or sit with him.

He was given his own cell, for his own safety, but he makes a point of showing his face and making friends. He teaches English to a few inmates and guards.He has even made peace with an Arab inmate in his block who he said was one of the Qaeda members who started a riot in December, seizing weapons from the guards and trying to break into the Americans' cell to kill them.The Afghans have surprised him. "They all love Bush, because he liberated their country," he said, "and they all say Osama bin Laden is Bush's friend," suggesting that in their minds there is a conspiracy that allows Al Qaeda's leader to remain at large."The young people all want to learn English here," he said. "They want to become Westernized. The top three requests I get at every corner are - No. 3: do I have any American cigarettes? No. 2: do I have an American magazine for them? And the top request is: 'Please take me to America.' "He keeps a journal, writing in a thick blue notebook in tiny script, detailing his days and charting his mood swings on a graph that looks like a heart monitor.

When he feels down, he pulls out a file of letters from home and rereads them. He praises the guards and prison commanders for treating him well. "I try to make it easy for them and they for me," he said.He seems to have won them over.

"He's an innocent man, and a good man," said Gen. Zaher Zaheruddin, commander of Pul-i-Charkhi prison. "He's a journalist," the general added. "You should put pressure on the American government to take him out of here.""

Makes you teary don't it! So Chico wants out eh? What living in close quarters with Jack getting to you? Or maybe it's so Chico can start his comedy act by appearing on TV in Jacks defense and start the "Feigned Retreat" so Jack can spewer his brand of bull-sheet-rock! So Chico, you were nothing but a journalist covering news like the embeds that are allowed to cover military operations eh? ....Ah.....What national news outlet were you working for? What national news outlet was funding you? Come on Chico name that Network! OH yeah that's right Point Blank News owned by ....Jack and funded by the major news network known as Skip London.....! No major network funded you including CBS!

Chico goes on to report "It was not my job to decide if the techniques were proper or improper," he said. "It's my job to report it, and to let the world decide on what the imagery represents." Right ..... that is like saying I witnessed the guy I was covering beat someone and since I have no common sense it was not my job to decide between right and wrong! Please award winning journo are you saying that your Mother and Father raised a grapefruit? You can't tell the difference?

BTW nice of Gall of The New York Times to do her FACT CHECKING! Seems like things at the Times have not changed much have they!

HEY GALL why didn't you call the Department of State or Department of Defense or even the Department of Justice and get their opinions? Why not ask a real International Lawyer? Hummm maybe a complaint to the Times Readers Representative will start that toilet flushing......Talk about opinionated journalism!

Well award wining journo.....you seemed to have crossed the plane between journo and accessory to a crime.....That is the reason why you are where you are. "I feel abandoned by my own government," said Caraballo". Abandoned by the USG? Now that's funny! You are party to a unauthorized operation that Jacks claims the USG was aware of though you all were supposedly working under Afghan MOD authorization and you feel abandonded by the USG? What sucking up to the Afghan Gov't? Hey Chico if it's true that the Afghan's sponsored you. Shouldn't you feel abandonded by THEM!

Now here is a funny "He seems to have won them over. "He's an innocent man, and a good man," said General Zaher Zaheruddin, commander of Pul-i-Charkhi prison." and "He's a journalist," the general added. "You should put pressure on the American government to take him out of here."

General Zaher Zaheruddin.....Jack isn't this the guy you have been paying off? LOL! Remember Jack..... H A W A L A.....even they have paper trails.......

But we hope you do get released!

You see Chico life is not going to be easy. Have you and Jack ever heard of a little unknown law called " 18 U.S.C. § 2441. War crimes?

Lets take a look!

18 U.S.C. § 2441. War crimes

(a) Offense.--Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.

(b) Circumstances.--The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such breach or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act).

(c) Definition.--As used in this section the term ‘war crime’ means any conduct--

(1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party;

(2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907;

(3) which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the international conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party and which deals with non- international armed conflict; or

(4) of a person who, in relation to an armed conflict and contrary to the provisions of the Protocol on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices as amended at Geneva on 3 May 1996 (Protocol II as amended on 3 May 1996), when the United States is a party to such Protocol, willfully kills or causes serious injury to civilians.

Now this means...1) Murder....hummm we wonder.....2) Human Rights Violations.....and or 3) Mistreating detainees..........And the best part of this is it covers "b) Circumstances.--The circumstances referred to in subsection (a) are that the person committing such breach or the victim of such war crime is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States or a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act). That mean's you Chico and of course Jack and Harpo......... Let's not talk about some of the other things that Jack is being investigated on.......

(c) Definition.--As used in this section the term ‘war crime’ means any conduct--

Come home Jack, Club Fed is waiting!

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