Americans Sentenced in Afghan Torture
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday in a Kabul court after a trial denounced by the defense as violating basic standards of fairness.    The three-judge panel sentenced accused ringleader Jonathan Idema, a former soldier with a past fraud conviction, and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett, to 10 years in jail...
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There is no evidence to support claims by three Americans that they were severely beaten in jail since their arrest on charges they kidnapped Afghans as part of a freelance
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The first member of US military intelligence to be tried for abusing naked Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison was sentenced today to eight months in prison, as American troops in Iraq marked the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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Three Americans &#151; led by a former Green Beret who boasted he had Pentagon support &#151; were found guilty Wednesday of torturing Afghans in a private jail and were sentenced to prison.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  - Three Americans standing  trial in Afghanistan Monday for imprisoning and torturing  Afghans were given a week to provide evidence, which they say  was withheld by U.S. authorities, proving that they had  official clearance.
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Four Britons who were held incommunicado at the US military prison in Cuba for more than two years as suspected al-Qaeda fighters filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that they were tortured.
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Six years after the Bush administration embraced harsh physical interrogation tactics, the taint of torture clings to American counterterrorism efforts.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - A federal judge sentenced an American to 24 years in prison for material support to terrorists by attending a paramilitary training camp in Pakistan and lying about it to U.S. officials.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The trial of three American vigilantes accused of torturing a dozen Afghan prisoners during a freelance hunt for terrorists entered its final stage Monday, with the judge saying a verdict was likely soon.    Jonathan Idema, Brent Bennett and Edward Caraballo face up to 20 years in jail if convicted on charges of kidnapping and torture...
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SAN DIEGO -- A total of 130 American troops have been punished or charged in cases involving the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon said yesterday.
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Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp contend they were wrongly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, their lawyer said Monday.
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At Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, American troops threatened captives with pistols and dogs. They threatened to electrocute them. They beat them.
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A US man jailed for running a private prison in Kabul and torturing Afghans is freed, officials say.
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Three American counterterrorism vigilantes on trial for allegedly running a private jail in Afghanistan denied charges they tortured prisoners and accused authorities Monday of withholding evidence that would prove they were working with U.S. knowledge.
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Three Americans on trial in Afghanistan  for illegally imprisoning and torturing Afghans have appealed  to the U.S. ambassador in Kabul to intervene in the case,  lawyers for two of them said on Wednesday.
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AMERICAN soldier Ivan Frederick was jailed for eight years yesterday for abusing inmates in Iraq&#39;s notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
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LONDON  - A Briton being held at Guantanamo Bay was tortured, held in solitary confinement for almost two years and "partially witnessed" U.S. military interrogators killing two detainees at an American base in Afghanistan, he said in a letter released by his lawyers Friday.