Now for the rest of the Team..
excerpted from: American Accused of Afghan Torture Is Free - NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - Comcast.net
KABUL, Afghanistan - An American jailed for two years in Afghanistan on charges of torturing alleged terrorists in a makeshift jail was freed two months early on Sunday after a government decree.
Edward Caraballo, 44, from New York, waved to reporters at Kabul’s international airport as he arrived in the back of a four-wheel drive vehicle accompanied by heavily armed American security personnel.
A U.S. Embassy official said an American consular officer accompanied Caraballo to the airport from the Pol-i-Charki prison, where he had been held since July 2004. He later caught a flight to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on his way back to the United States.
“I feel jubilant and happy. I am still worried that something could happen to me as I leave but I am optimistic that I will get home safely,” Caraballo told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his cell before his release.
He said he was freed two months early under a decree issued by the Afghan government for prisoners with less than 12 months left on their sentences.
The U.S. Embassy declined to comment.
A convoy of sport utility vehicles arrived at the airport and whisked Caraballo through a gate into an area off-limits to the press. Afghan airport officials said U.S. authorities told them to prevent journalists from speaking to Caraballo.
Heavily armed U.S. Special Forces troops guarded the gate.
Caraballo and two other Americans, former soldier Jonathan “Jack” Idema and accomplice Brent Bennett, were arrested in July 2004 and convicted of running a private prison in Kabul as part of a freelance hunt for terrorists.
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Caraballo alleges that American military officials facilitated his “embedding” with Idema’s team and helped make contacts with Afghan officials while in Afghanistan.
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Funny, the story doesn’t report that Idema and company were exonerated on appeal by the same court that ‘convicted them’ the first time.
American State dept. and CIA working against Americans in the field when they find those inconvenient truths? Americans accusing other Americans of some atrocity in a foriegn land they never committed? Who ever heard of that? (Hint: John Kerry and his think-a-likes, speech-a-likes in the White House and State Dept and CIA.)
More on the Idema/Task Force Sabre Seven story at Cao’s blog and Superpatriot.
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