Jonathan Idema
Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema (May 30, 1956 – January 21, 2012) was a former army reserve special operations non-commissioned officer with a controversial history. In September 2004 he was found guilty of running a private prison in Afghanistan and torturing Afghan citizens. At the time, Idema had been portraying himself as a U.S. government-sponsored special forces operative on a mission to apprehend terrorists. However, the U.S. government has repeatedly denied most of such claims.
Idema was released early by Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai in April 2007, departing Afghanistan in early June, having served three years of a ten-year sentence.
Idema died of AIDS in Mexico in late January 2012.
Read more about Jonathan Idema: Questionable Behavior, Early Life, Military Service, Business Interests, Fraud Conviction, Lithuania and Nuclear Weapons Smuggling, Amnesty and Refusal To Leave Prison, Relationship With The Media, Media Coverage, Death
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