Jonathan Idema
Confidence artist, Deceased Person
1956 – 2012
Who was Jonathan Idema?
Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema was a former army reserve special operations non-commissioned officer with a controversial history. In September 2004 he was found guilty of running a private prison in Afghanistan and torturing Afghan citizens. At the time, Idema had been portraying himself as a U.S. government-sponsored special forces operative on a mission to apprehend terrorists. However, the U.S. government has repeatedly denied most of such claims.
Idema was released early by Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai in April 2007, departing Afghanistan in early June, having served three years of a ten-year sentence.
Idema died of AIDS in Mexico in late January 2012.
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- Born
- May 30, 1956
Poughkeepsie - Profession
- Lived in
- North Carolina
- Died
- Jan 25, 2012
Bacalar
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on July 23, 2013
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