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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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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The United States has released 11 Afghans held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on suspicion of Taliban links after a request from President Hamid Karzai, an Afghan official said on Wednesday.
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A Turk with German residency who spent  years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp said in a magazine  interview that German soldiers abused him in Afghanistan  shortly after Pakistan handed him to U.S. authorities in 2001.
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The trial is to begin shortly of three  Americans accused of torture and  hostage-taking in Afghanistan.
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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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A US military intelligence soldier in Iraq has been sentenced to 8 months in prison for taking part in torturing detainees in Abu Ghraib prison.
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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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Spc. Armin Cruz received a sentence of eight months in prison, a demotion, and a bad conduct discharge form the Army for having tortured Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Bagdat (Baghdad).
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty by a three-judge panel Wednesday after a trial denounced by the defense as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness.    Two of the men - accused ringleader Jonathan Idema and his right-hand man, Brent Bennett - were sentenced to 10 years in jail...
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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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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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A Pakistani-American is jailed by a US court for 24 years for attending an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan freed 81  suspected Taliban fighters from military jails across the  country Sunday and some of the released men said they had been  mistreated and tortured in custody.
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The US military looks into claims in a German magazine that US and Afghan troops abused a prisoner.
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A former American soldier convicted in Afghanistan of running a private jail and torturing terror suspects has left the country after three years in a Kabul prison, the warden said Wednesday.
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan freed 81 suspected Taliban fighters from military jails across the country Sunday and some of the released men said they had been mistreated and tortured in custody.