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Unfortunately, Robin Moore also got suckered by this loose cannon. I'll leave it up to the operators on the forum to eviscerate Idema.

Ping to the operators out there.

A piece of paper on the wall was titled "Missions to Complete" and listed various tasks. Item No. 2 was "Karzai." Item No. 4 was "pick up laundry."

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I bought and read the book [The Hunt For Bin Laden] based solely on the appearance of Idema on Imus in the Morning. Started out well and has some great blow by blow info on the initial stages of the Afghan War but it quickly deteriorates into A-Typical SpecFor Contrarianism and complaining.

Didn't finish it. Now it gathers dust on the back of my commode.

Yeah, Robin and his researcher and helper Chris Thompson got suckered by Keith, big time. He is a very believable guy with a reality distortion field that just won't quit. He was back in the States a few months ago, and sued Chris Thompson, not sure why. The courthouse in Fayetteville has a special drawer in the file cabinet for all his lawsuits.

The press lapped his stuff up. Fox put him on (including his claim to be an ex-member of the unit called Delta) and a UPI reporter, Martin Arostegui, reported a lot of "Idemythology."

Afghan cops still looking for one Abdul Latif last seen taken captive by Keith and Co. One other guy with him ID'd himself as Brent Bennett and third one has given several names, all false.

There is much on him in the Fayetteville Observer. Their archives are pay archives, but you get the lede of each article by a search. You can assemble the whole story of Keith's trip to Cold Stone College with then-GF Dawn Glosson from the ledes. The judge thought he was nuts, and a psychiatrist diagnosed him with a personality disorder (unspec).

The sad thing is he is intelligent, decisive, athletic, patriotic, and ambitious. But that is only part of what it takes to be a special forces soldier. Keith is lacking the most important parts: judgment and character.

There is absolutely zero chance that he was working for any US agency. He was barred from enlistment in the active duty (10th SFG(A), Ft. Devens) and, as I understand it, ejected from the Reserves (11th SFG(A), Tappan, NY, one of the units erased by Clinton). Even the guys who were at SFQC with him speak ill of him. There were warnings out on him in Afghanistan by November, 2001 and possibly earlier.

Most of the better contract agencies have a hiring process that is highly reputation-based (although there are a few that have gone rogue or whose vetting has broken down under pressure). So they wouldn't have hired him either. But that's immaterial. Keith's personality is such that he has to be the boss; he can't work loyally for anyone else.

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