Afghans seize 4 men claiming to be with U.S. Special Forces
On July 5th Afghan forces arrested four men including a former Green Beret from Fayetteville, N.C., Jonathan Keith Idema. The men were detained for illegally holding eight Afghans in a private prison in Kabul. The interior minister said intelligence and police officials raided the group's house and found prisoners strung up by the feet. An official said "They were hanging upside down" and a report showed the men were beaten.
Idema, who fought alongside Northern Alliance forces during the 2001 war in Afghanistan, has been in Afghanistan for about three months fighting terrorism and serving as an adviser to Afghan forces through contracts with the Afghan (President Hamid) Karzai government reported his lawyer, John Tiffany.
The U.S. military, facing a widening inquiry into prisoner abuse, distanced itself from the arrested men and State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher said "the U.S. government does not employ or sponsor these men".
Who is supporting Idema and his group in their counter-terrorism mission ?
Related articles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/08/international/asia/08afgh.html
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=terrorism&Story=6445583
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/localnews/stories/lo070904s1.shtml
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