wife's address. He managed to do this by altering the final manuscript without Moore's consent before it was sent to the publisher. Random House quietly dropped the book from print after publishing what had become a work of fiction that even its author had disavowed. Moore has since regretted Idema's involvement and insisted that the publisher refused to include his corrections. Robert Young Pelton, in his book about private security contractors, Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror (), devotes a chapter to Idema's exploits in Afghanistan, including his controversial involvement in Moore's book Task Force Dagger: The Hunt for bin Laden. Peter Bergen's article published in Rolling Stone, "Jack Idema: Shadow Warrior," examines Idema's military career. Eric Campbell's book on reporting in war zones, Absurdistan (), has a few chapters on Idema. Newsweek had a short section on Idema called "An Afghan Mystery" by John Barry and Owen Matthews in the July 26, 2004 edition. In February 2009, in an article entitled "Laptop may hold key to high-level scam", the Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana wrote of a police report that Idema had attempted to obtain a laptop used by jailed military imposter Joseph A. Cafasso, also a former Fox News consultant, from the 63-year-old woman with whom Cafasso had recently been living. The woman was frightened of Idema and so turned the laptop over to police. On June 25, 2022, video blog Oki’s Weird Stories released a documentary about Idema, titled The King of Stolen Valor, featuring previously unseen materials and original eyewitness testimonials, on their YouTube channel. Death Idema died of AIDS on January 21, 2012, in Mexico. FBI investigation Documents released under FOIA show that the Department of Justice and FBI had been operating an active investigation of Idema as-from 2005. See also David Passaro Niels Holck References External links Obituary from the Economist BBC News profile of Idema Jonathan Idema: Our Man in Kabul?, from crimelibrary.com. Transcript of an episode of "Mediawatch" from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation about the al Qaeda tape controversy. Includes links to email documents from Idema to 60 Minutes, images of Idema allegedly interrogating Afghanis, and a copy of his military record. US Bounty Hunter Trial, General material about his actions and information about the Al Qaeda training videos he found. Describes the arrest and trial. 1956 births 2012 deaths People from North Carolina Bounty hunters Osama bin Laden