Brent Bennett
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Brent Bennett is a former U.S. Army paratrooper, who was convicted by an Afghan court on September 15, 2004 for participating in torture, kidnapping and for running a private jail in Kabul. Bennett and associate Jonathan Idema were both sentenced to ten-year prison terms. Edward Caraballo, a journalist, was also arrested while documenting Bennett and Idema's vigilante group. He was sentenced to a two-year term in an Afghan jail and release in April, 2006. The defendants claim that there had never been any evidence the Afghans were abused.
Bennett and his family maintain that he was working through official U.S. channels and was abandoned by U.S. officials after being arrested.
Bennett was released from an Afghan prison and flown out of the country on September 30th, 2006, after serving more than two years. U.S. officials secured Bennett a passport and a ticket out of the country, then boarded a plane for Dubai. It was not clear if Bennett was free or in the custody of U.S. officials.
While in the U.S. Army, he spent time in units in Alaska and North Carolina. He never saw combat. After his discharge, he settled in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and worked in restaurant management.
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