Jonathan K. Idema

“We do intend on charging businesses in the future,” Chief Operating Officer Matt Idema told the Journal in an interview. Reuters had reported in March that a potential revenue source for WhatsApp was to charge businesses that want to contact customers, citing company documents. Started in 2009 ...

A varied group of foreigners poured into Kabul after the fall of the Taliban: the military, diplomats, spies, security contractors, soldiers of fortune, NGOs , arms ... There was, for example, Jack Idema, who claimed to be an ex-CIA agent and hawked what he claimed to be pictures and film footage supposedly of ...

A varied group of foreigners poured into Kabul after the fall of the Taliban: the military, diplomats, spies, security contractors, soldiers of fortune, NGOs , arms ... There was, for example, Jack Idema, who claimed to be an ex-CIA agent and hawked what he claimed to be pictures and film footage supposedly of ...

Pul-e-Charkhi Prison, a vast crumbling Afghan fortress twenty miles outside of Kabul, is not an easy place for an American to wind up. Its dank cellblocks house scores of Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters. Pul-e-Charkhi is also home to Jack Idema, a former U.S. Special Forces sergeant, who, in one of the more ...

Jonathan K. Idema, a convicted con man who gained notoriety in post-invasion Afghanistan as a swaggering hunter of terrorists, then ignominy when he ... Jonathan Keith Idema's eventful life began May 30, 1956, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and ended in Mexico in a town on the Yucatan Peninsula, where he ...

Jack Idema, a self-styled terrorist-hunter who once claimed he was close to tracking down Osama bin Laden, has died in Mexico, aged 55. Variously described as a ... Idema appeared in Kabul at the end of 2001 after the Northern Alliance and US forces swept the Taliban from power. He claimed to have ...

The US media has reported the death of Jonathon (“Jack”) Idema, the former Special Forces soldier and convicted fraudster who was sentenced in 2004 to ten years imprisonment in after being found guilty of kidnapping and torturing Afghan citizens in his own private prison in Kabul. Following his release ...

Jack Idema, a self-styled terrorist-hunter who once claimed he was close to tracking down Osama bin Laden, has died in Mexico, aged 55. Variously ... While he was indeed a former soldier, his life until his arrival in Kabul was typified by bizarre and sometimes criminal misadventure. Born and raised in ...

This is the end for Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema. The vigilante ... It started just two months after 9/11, when Idema appeared in Afghanistan under the guise of a "humanitarian relief" worker. .... Afghan police raided his Kabul headquarters, a shootout ensued, and Idema and his team were taken into custody.

Nowadays the vast and rundown jail on the outskirts of Kabul is used to house common criminals and al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects alike. ... Afghanistan's biggest prison are Timur Shah, a gang leader on death row for murder who kidnapped an Italian aid worker in 2005, and Jack Idema, a US ex-special ...

Three Americans accused of torturing Afghans in a private jail were found guilty Wednesday in a Kabul court after a trial denounced by the defense as failing to meet basic international standards of fairness. The three-judge panel sentenced accused ringleader Jonathan Idema, a former soldier with a past ...

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.

Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema, who has been jailed for 10 years in Afghanistan, was known in the country as a mysterious figure, often seen clad in ... He duly came to the world's attention when Afghan police burst into a building in Kabul and reported finding three men hanging from the ceiling by their feet in ...