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Old 09-07-2010, 13:56   #1
JAGO
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Keith Idema is back - this time in Mexico

Well, I ran the Search function and see he hasn't been mentioned in here for awhile. Be sure to check the News Observer link and see how handsome he looks.
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phil

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/09/...-by-black.html

BY JAY PRICE - Staff Writer
North Carolina's own walking parody of U.S. foreign policy is at it again.

This time Mexico is the stage for veteran con man Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema.

In the 1990s Idema went to prison for 58 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy and collected dozens of lesser charges such as writing worthless checks and assault on a female. Idema sued CBS and Steven Spielberg's studio, claiming a movie starring George Clooney was an unauthorized version of his life story.

Then he hightailed it to Afghanistan, where he reinvented himself for the international media as a sunglasses-wearing, AK-47-toting counterterrorism expert who boasted of shadowy U.S. and Afghan government connections. He peddled things such as body guard services and videotapes of alleged al-Qaida training exercises and was quoted in a host of admiring stories.



Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/09/...#ixzz0ysLFrBfW
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