Kabul bounty hunters search for bin Laden

[seemslikeadream]

12.07.2004

Afghan soldiers guard the Kabul home of Americans under arrest on suspicion of interrogating locals. Picture / Reuter

It was a discovery startling, and disturbing, even by the standards of Afghanistan's anarchic violence.

Prisoners hanging upside down in a private prison, tortured by heavily armed soldiers of fortune seeking the millions of dollars in bounty offered by the Americans.

The arrest of Jack Idema and two companions after a shootout in Kabul gave a glimpse of a savage and largely unreported war taking place in the shadow of the Iraq conflict, and the assortment - mercenaries and misfits, fortune-seekers and fantasists - who have come to take part.

Idema, now in the custody of the notorious Afghan security chief, Baba Jan, in many ways epitomises these latter-day men who would be king in this part of the "Wild East".

His is a colourful background across three continents: author, adventurer and convict.

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[bucknaked]

1. The Repub Dingleberries are always bragging about the private sector...

...hell, according to their logic, Bush should praising this goofball's initiative.