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	Jonathan Idema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema (born 1957 in Poughkeepsie, New York) is an American self-proclaimed vigilante and independent security contractor who is currenlty serving a sentence in the Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Afghanistan for crimes committed there.
		Idema has made claim that his operation was known to the US government and his arrest was a set up by the FBI all of which is unfounded.
		Idema and his associates Brent Bennett and Edward Caraballo were arrested on 5 July 2004 by Afghan police during a raid in which they found eight Afghani men (some hanging from their feet) bound and hooded in detention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jonathan_Idema (2189 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Profile: Jonathan 'Jack' Idema
		Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema, who has been jailed for 10 years in Afghanistan, was known in the country as a mysterious figure, often seen clad in combat gear and dark glasses, and armed to the eyeballs.
		Idema always claimed to be a defender of American values, a patriotic ex-special forces soldier working on the front-line of the US war on terror, with the full backing of the Pentagon.
		Idema claimed the man was a senior Taleban figure - but the US said he was not who Idema claimed he was and he was later released.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3569552.stm (612 words)

	IDEMA
		Idema claimed he was in Afghanistan as an adviser to the Northern Alliance, a militia opposed to al-Qaeda and the then-ruling Taliban government.
		Idema's transformation from penniless ex-con to counterterrorism super-spy was a collaborative work in which the mass media played a crucial, if unwitting, role, according to journalists and military personnel who watched it happen.
		Idema said the income from those tapes helped fund his future missions in Afghanistan, possibly including the private prison and interrogation operation that is the focus of his current trial.
	www.pownetwork.org /phonies/phonies204.htm (2643 words)

	USATODAY.com - American says he was on bin Laden's trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Idema repeated claims that he had also uncovered a plot to send 36 al-Qaeda agents into the United States, kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai and attack the main U.S. base at Bagram with a high tech explosive that he said is not detectable by bomb-sniffing dogs.
		Idema claimed that higher ups in the FBI were slow in acting on his intelligence, embarrassed that his Afghan sources were giving him better information than they were getting, and angry that he would not reveal their names.
		Idema was in Afghanistan during the war and says he has documents that prove he fought with the Northern Alliance and continues to be an adviser.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-08-21-bin-ladens-trails_x.htm?csp=36 (1409 words)

	CJR January/February 2005: Tin Soldier
		Idema also told several associates he was detained for impersonating a police officer in an effort to get into a Detroit prison and convince a convicted serial killer to confess to Viparet’s murder.
		Idema claimed he was working with the knowledge and approval of the U.S. government (something the Central Command and the State Department adamantly deny) and presented some evidence to support this claim during his trial.
		Idema made it clear in a recent letter to one of his attorneys (who was instructed in the letter to distribute it to other members of Idema’s inner circle) that his goal was to influence future coverage.
	www.cjr.org /issues/2005/1/blake-soldier.asp (5193 words)

	News: American Held in Afghan Torture Case Blames FBI. Jonathan Idema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jonathan "Jack" Idema, a former U.S. Green Beret, was arrested in July along with another ex-serviceman, Brent Bennett, and documentary film-maker Edward Carabello, and charged with running a private prison, torture and illegal detention.
		Idema told the court he had been issued with a passport by a special U.S. agency which he declined to name and had a visa for Afghanistan similar to those given to special forces operatives.
		Idema has insisted since his arrest that he was operating for the U.S. government on anti-terror activities, claiming to have been in contact with officials working for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
	www.resist.com.au /comments/c637.asp (446 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Trial starts for 3 Americans in Afghan private-jail case
		Jonathan Idema, Brett Bennett and Edward Caraballo were arrested when Afghan security forces raided their makeshift jail in Kabul on July 5.
		Idema's sunglasses completed a look that once fooled even NATO peacekeepers, who sent explosives experts to help him with three raids before realizing they had been duped into thinking he was with U.S. special forces.
		Idema, who is reportedly 48, told reporters his group had halted a plot to blow up the main U.S. military base with fuel trucks and assassinate Afghan leaders.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001985510_vigilante22.html (702 words)

	Torture suspect says he was hot on bin Laden's heels \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		Jonathan Idema told The Associated Press he had official sanction from Afghans and Americans to hunt down terrorists and said he has been prevented from showing the evidence in court.
		Idema accused the FBI of orchestrating his arrest, saying the agency was trying to cover up its own incompetence in hunting for terrorists.
		After initially denying any knowledge of Idema's activities, the U.S. military announced in July that it had received a prisoner from the American and held him for more than a month at Bagram Air Base before deciding that he was not the man Idema said he was.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/35399 (774 words)

	USATODAY.com - Lawyers for alleged U.S. vigilantes appeal to embassy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Jonathan Idema, Edward Caraballo and Brent Bennett were arrested July 5 when Afghan forces stormed a house in the capital, Kabul, finding eight men who complained they had been tortured.
		Idema, a former U.S. soldier and convicted fraudster, claims he was working in close cooperation with the U.S. Defense Department —; something U.S. officials deny.
		Idema has claimed that he was hot on the trail of bin Laden, whose capture carries a $50 million bounty, and other top terrorists.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-09-08-afghan-vigilante_x.htm (685 words)

	Jonathan Keith Idema - SourceWatch
		Jonathan Keith Idema, commonly referred to as Keith Idema, is a former U.S. soldier who was sentenced in September 2004 an Afghan court to a ten-year prison term.
		Idema was convicted on "charges of entering the country illegally, running a private prison, and torture.
		Idema had been accused of operating a detention–cum–interrogation center in concert with another former U.S. soldier and a TV cameraman, who were sentenced alongside him the same day." [1]
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Jonathan_Keith_Idema (802 words)

	washingtonpost.com: In Kabul, Private Jail Leads to Trial
		Idema -- who in Afghanistan used the first name "Jack" -- and his associates stand accused of entering the country illegally on false passports, causing insecurity in the country and kidnapping at least eight Afghans, including Sadiq.
		Idema is a colorful personality who became well known to foreign journalists in 2001 during fighting around the village of Jabal Saraj, north of Kabul.
		Idema was even able get NATO forces operating here to assist his group in searching for bombs.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A3653-2004Aug15?language=printer (1074 words)

	Did Bush And FBI Wait Too Long To Act On Bin Laden Location? - s5000.com
		Idema said that he gave the information to the FBI when he was living in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in January or February of this year.
		Jonathan Idema said that he had also uncovered a plot to send 36 al-Qaida agents into the United States, kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai and attack the main U.S. base at Bagram with a high tech explosive that he said is not detectable by bomb-sniffing dogs.
		Idema claimed that brass at the FBI were slow in acting on his intelligence, embarrassed that his Afghan sources were giving him better information than they were getting, and angry that he would not reveal their names to them.
	www.s5000.com /what_the_huck/543/ask_huck.php (1707 words)

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		Jonathan Idema, a man on trial for the alleged torturing of Afghan terror suspects, claims that he was hot on the heels of Bin Laden before his July 5th arrest.
		Jonathan Idema, who served time in the 1980's for bilking $200,000 in goods from 60 companies, states that he went to Afghanistan because he believed the anti-terrorist efforts of the U.S. were failing.
		Idema also complains about not being able to speak freely to the press, and being beaten repeatedly by his jailers, all of the things the he allegedly did to Afghan terror suspects.
	www.atsnn.com /article/74730 (1223 words)

	Jack Idema's sentence cut in half - Military Photos
		Idema and Bennett's sentences were reduced from 10 years to five and three respectively, reports quoted one of the four judges hearing the case as saying.
		Idema was known in Afghanistan as a mysterious figure, often seen clad in combat gear and dark glasses and heavily armed.
		Idema was NEVER SF and he was not working under the auspices of the U.S. The man is a clown.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=39726 (780 words)

	Mercenary claims U.S., Afghan officials conspiring against him
		Jonathan "Mad Jack" Idema and two other Americans were arrested in Afghanistan in July for abducting and interrogating people they suspected of being extremists.
		Idema repeatedly shouted at the judge, criticizing how he is running the trial.
		Idema and his associates were arrested after ISAF's Afghan peacekeeping force became suspicious of his operations.
	www.cbc.ca /news/story/2004/08/16/idema040816.html?print (1366 words)

	Americans Sentenced In Afghan Torture
		After a 7 1/2-hour session in a stuffy Kabul courtroom, the three-judge panel was unanimous in convicting the former soldier, Jonathan Idema, and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett, on charges of entering Afghanistan illegally, making illegal arrests, establishing a private jail and torturing their captives.
		Idema, who has a previous fraud conviction, claimed to have had high-level support from the Pentagon and Afghan officials in his group's efforts to hunt down terrorists, but the U.S. military says the men were freelancers operating outside the law and without its knowledge.
		Idema, who wore sunglasses and khaki fatigues bearing an American flag throughout the trial, denounced the trial as a throwback to the times of the hard-line Islamic Taliban movement.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_torture_091604,00.html (959 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia
		Siepmann said Idema had appeared "questionable" when he presented the detainee, and that suspicion grew when, a month later, the man turned out not to be the top suspect that Idema had described, according to the Associated Press (AP).
		Idema, a former US soldier, said his group was in direct fax and e-mail contact with the office of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and with his top aides.
		Idema gave no testimony during the hearing, but afterward told reporters that he and his colleagues had arrested people he described as resistance fighters who were planning to use fuel trucks as mobile bombs to attack the US military base at Bagram, north of Kabul.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/FG24Ag01.html (770 words)

	Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia
		Idema was arrested after Afghan police found eight men tied up or hanging in his private prison in Kabul.
		Idema, a former member of the US Special Forces, claimed that he was acting at the behest of sections of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the US Defense Department, including deputy under secretary of defense for intelligence General William Boykin.
		The conviction of Jonathan "Jack" Idema was a foregone conclusion.
	atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/FI29Ag01.html (1755 words)

	U.S. admits bounty hunter links - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When Jonathan Idema, also known as Jack, 48, first appeared in court in Kabul last month, he was asked to prove his allegations that he had links with the U.S. Department of Defense.
		Idema's request to be taken on by the Pentagon to operate in Afghanistan.
		Idema has said that hundreds of videos, photos and documents were removed by FBI officers after his arrest in Kabul.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=3239 (778 words)

	U.S. Knew All About Private Jail in Kabul, American Tells Court (washingtonpost.com)
		Idema, who frequently interrupted the judge and laughed in apparent disgust at the proceedings, said FBI agents in Kabul had seized hundreds of documents, photographs and videotapes from his base here that showed "constant contacts" between him and U.S. military and intelligence officials this spring and summer.
		Idema, who claims to have been running an anti-terrorism operation, said FBI agents had questioned several Afghans after he took them prisoner and confirmed that the agents knew of a plot to kill two Afghan cabinet ministers.
		Idema and two American associates, along with four of their Afghan employees, were arrested July 5 and have been charged with entering the country illegally, operating an illegal jail, detaining and imprisoning eight Afghan citizens, kidnapping and torture.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A4821-2004Aug16.html (775 words)

	U.S. admits bounty hunter contact - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Idema was working for the military in any official capacity and insist that he is a mercenary.
		Idema said that he and two other Americans were working with the full knowledge of the U.S. defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and that the U.S. government had abandoned him.
		Idema admitted running a counter-terrorism operation under deep cover for some months and had handed fighters he had detained to the U.S. forces for further questioning on several occasions.
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=2828 (1227 words)

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		Siepmann said Idema had appeared "questionable" the moment he presented the detainee, and that suspicion grew when, one month later, the man turned out not to be the top suspect that Idema had described.
		Idema said he was in daily telephone and e-mail contact with officials "at the highest level," including in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office.
		Idema appeared in court in a khaki uniform with an American flag on the shoulder.
	www.ksdk.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=64084 (938 words)

	Americans back in Afghan court for running private 'war on terror'
		Jonathan Idema claims that he and two other Americans and a group of Afghan employees were working with the full knowledge of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to hunt down terrorists in Afghanistan.
		The vigilantes, led by a former American soldier identified as Jonathan Idema, are now under arrest and charged by Afghan authorities with illegally detaining Afghan citizens and torturing them at their private jail in Kabul.
		Idema was even pictured on the cover of "The Hunt for bin Laden: Task Force Dagger," a behind-the-scenes look by Moore at the work of the Special Forces in Afghanistan.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1192282/posts (1473 words)

	3 Americans found guilty of torture in Kabul - World News - MSNBC.com
		Idema claims to have had high-level Pentagon support in his group’s efforts to hunt down terrorists, but the U.S. military says the men were freelancers operating outside the law and without its knowledge.
		Idema, who wore sunglasses and khaki fatigues bearing an American flag throughout the trial, denounced the decision as a throwback to the times of the hard-line Islamic Taliban movement.
		They showed Idema meeting a man identified as a U.S. Army captain coordinating counterterrorism operations in Kabul, and speaking by phone to officials Idema said were at the Defense Department and the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5993150 (959 words)

	NEWSMAKER -DAWN Magazine; August 29, 2004
		Idema is standing trial with two co-defendants, Brent Bennett and Edward Caraballo, a cameraman, and four Afghans.
		Idema has insisted that he was on a legitimate counter-terrorist operation endorsed by both American and Afghan officials, and that he thwarted several terrorist plots.
		For his part, Idema claims his real goal was to “build a security force in Kabul with a whole bunch of (US) former special forces guys” to help the Afghan government train Afghans in “professional soldiers’ skills” so they could be bodyguards and commandos in a new, democratic Afghanistan.
	www.dawn.com /weekly/dmag/archive/040829/dmag23.htm (604 words)

	US admits 'bounty hunter' contact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When Jonathan Idema, also known as Jack, first appeared in court in Kabul last month, he was asked to prove his claims to have had links with the US Department of Defense.
		But Ms Anderson had turned down what she said was Mr Idema's request to be taken on by the Pentagon to work in Afghanistan.
		During the his trial, Mr Idema has alleged that hundreds of videos, photos and documents were removed by FBI officers after his arrest in Kabul.
	agonist.org /node/5174/print (439 words)

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