A group of Americans arrested on a freelance counterterror operation and found to be running a private jail in Afghanistan duped international peacekeepers three times into assisting their illegal raids, the NATO-led force said Wednesday.
The three have been charged with hostage-taking and assault, officials said. If found guilty, they could be confined to Afghanistan's rudimentary jails for up to 20 years, Attorney General Abdul Fatah told The Associated Press.
Afghan security forces arrested the three, led by a former U.S. soldier named Jonathan K. Idema, on July 5 after finding eight Afghans in a makeshift holding facility in the capital, Kabul.
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