Americans Sentenced in Afghan Torture
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans - led by a former Green Beret who boasted he had Pentagon support - were found guilty Wednesday of torturing Afghans in a private jail and were sentenced to prison.    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...
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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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An Afghan court has found three Americans guilty of torturing Afghans in a private jail, a case that reverberates on the heels of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A detainee was forced to kneel so many times he was bruised, a barber gave reverse mohawks and a female interrogator ran her fingers through a prisonerâs hair and sat in his lap, the US government says in the most
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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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PUL-I-CHARKI, Afghanistan  - Hundreds of  Pakistanis who fought alongside the Taliban against U.S-led  forces after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States  were released from an Afghan jail Sunday after nearly three  years as prisoners of war.
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A U.S. citizen was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison, the maximum sentence possible, for training with al Qaeda militants in Somalia in 2006.
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A couple who tortured a man they had befriended are each been jailed for four-and-a-half years.
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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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Three Americans charged with torturing Afghans in a private jail return to court, with a verdict expected soon.
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Australian Mamdouh Habib says he was tortured and abused during his detention at a US prison in Cuba.
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Afghan judges held a preliminary appeal  hearing on Monday for three Americans sentenced to long jail  terms in September for illegally detaining and torturing  Afghans in a freelance war on terror.
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An American accused of torturing terror suspects in Afghanistan entered that country using a letter from a U.S. embassy official identifying him as a government contractor, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO - An American captured among a group of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters on Tuesday asked US President George W. Bush to commute his 20-year prison sentence for aiding Afghanistan&#39;s ousted Taliban government.
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The International Committee of the Red Cross found &quot;cruel, inhumane and degrading&quot; treatment of detainees at the US military prison in GuantÃ¡namo
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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 ...
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The US military said yesterday it was investigating the deaths of two Afghan civilians in US custody in 2003, following a newspaper's report that Army Green Berets tortured some prisoners.