KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) An American jailed in Afghanistan on charges of torturing terrorists in a makeshift jail was freed Sunday two months before his two-year sentence ended and whisked out of the country under heavy U.S. security.
Caraballo maintains the American government authorized the jail, which was run by a former U.S. soldier, Jonathan Jack Idema, and another man, Brent Bennett.
U.S. authorities have repeatedly denied the claims and said the prison was part of an unauthorized hunt for terrorists.
Edward Caraballo, sitting, with Jonathan Idema, left, and Brent Bennett, right, in a 2004 photo.
Jack Idema : former S.F.
, who was fired from a few S.F. teams for being trouble and over the top mdash;left S.
F. after failed team tours. Idema, man of many defunct business ventures since his days in S.
F., is a con man who put American S.F.
troops in Afghanistan in direct danger in his quest for fame and a good story.
He is a whack-job who was running his own concentration camp.
Bolivia s new left-leaning leader Evo Morales has signed a pact with the Cuban and Venezuelan presidents that rejects U.
S.-backed free trade and promises a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation.
Castro, Morales, Chavez
All that rsquo;s missing in this photo is Cindy Sheehan so we added her.
No need to thank us Cindy
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) A body found in Afghanistan has been identified as that of an Indian telecommunications engineer who was kidnapped earlier in the week by Taliban members, a regional police chief said.
A statement from the Taliban demanded that all Indian workers leave Afghanistan within 24 hours or the hostage would be killed.
After the body was found, a Taliban spokesman said the group had not planned to kill the hostage but when he tried to escape, they shot him.
The promoter of the pageant is Lwazi Mbowa. She felt that there was no place for swimwear in a contest that challenges perceptions of beauty.
This is about the true beauty of Africa, she says.
Big women are for chiefs and kings, and we can rsquo;t expose chiefs items in public, so swimwear is completely out.
The winner was 21-year-old student Nobesuthu Sibanda. She comes from the second biggest city of Bulawayo.
She was not given a glitzy tiara, but a crown of goatskin and beads, a sisal jar and a mukombe, a wooden ladle used for drinking water.
Door prizes of genital mutilations were given out to lucky female audience members after the pageant. The emcee was cooked for lunch, and everyone said they had a fabulous time!
Bomb squad destroys news box playing lsquo;Mission: Impossible III rsquo; theme.
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - A newspaper promotion for Tom Cruise rsquo;s upcoming ldquo;Mission: Impossible III rdquo; got off to an explosive start when a county arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.
The confusion: the Los Angeles Times rack was fitted with a digital musical device designed to play the ldquo;Mission: Impossible rdquo; theme song when the door was opened. But in some cases, the red plastic boxes with protruding wires were jarred loose and dropped onto the stack of newspapers inside, alarming customers.
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