What he did then: Freelance bounty hunter in Afghanistan who said he had ties to the U.S. Department of Defense and CIA

Where is he now: An Afghan prison

Reported involvement: Idema was an ex-Green Beret who went to Afghanistan to find Osama Bin Laden. In April 2002, he established his own operation to hunt down and find top members of al-Qaida and claims he had the approval of top Pentagon officials to do so. In his quest to gather information, Idema resorted to various abusive tactics such as physical beatings, sleep deprivation, and "water boarding." On July 5, 2002, Idema called Kabul police chief Baba Jan to turn over eight detainees and found himself and his crew under arrest by Afghan authorities. At his trial, Idema claimed he was working for the Pentagon's No. 2 intelligence official, Lt. Gen. William Boykin, and produced a tape at his trial of a conversation with someone in Boykin's office to corroborate his story. However, the Afghan court found this defense irrelevant, convicting him of torture and sentencing him to 10 years in an Afghan prison.

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