↑He was known to “regularly turn up at the Intercontinental Hotel, where most of the foreign journalists were staying, attempting to sell videos and photographs purporting to show Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists training for assassinations and rehearsing gas attacks using dogs,” according to The Independent newspaper.* (Im)plausible deniability defined ...
Some of these videos he managed to sell for large amounts of money. But his motivation went beyond personal wealth. A former Army sergeant who knew Idema told New York magazine that Idema wanted “to kill every fucking Afghan I see.”
Idema’s terrorist-hunting days finally came to an end nearly three years later. Afghan police raided his Kabul headquarters, a shootout ensued, and Idema and his team were taken into custody. Inside his base — or private dungeon — were bloodied clothing strewn on the floor, five prisoners tied to chairs, and three beaten-up prisoners hanging blindfolded and upside-down from the ceiling. Idema claimed the prison was operating under the auspices of the U.S. military. It wasn’t. [ * ]
Idema was convicted and given a 10-year prison sentence, but was pardoned in 2007 by Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. He left Afghanistan that June.
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Asked to describe him, [his former abused partner] said: “A true sociopath. A charmer who was omnipotent and the epitome of evil.”
This is what we look like to the rest of the world.
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