An Afghan Mystery

摘要

It's an ordinary-looking house, painted green, in a rundown neighborhood on Kabul's outskirts. The landlord says he rented it to an American who told him he was in the rug-export business. This is where Jonathan Keith (Jack) Idema, a onetime Green Beret from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., is accused of running his own private interrogation center. Afghan police raided the house on a tip from U.S. Coalition authorities, freeing seven Afghan captives and arresting Idema, 48m and two other Americans on charges of assault and kidnapping. Afghan officials said their group, which they called Task Force Sabre 7, were freelancers who posed as U.S. officials and allegedly tortured their prisoners to get information.