High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jonathan Keith "Jack" Idema is a convicted felon and con artist who was also found gulty in September 2004 for running a private prison in Afghanistan and torturing Afghan citizens. At the time, Idema had been portraying himself as a U.S. government-sponsored special forces operative on a mission to apprehend terrorists. However, the U.S. government has repeatedly denied most of such claims. Idema was released early by Afghanistan`s president Hamid Karzai in April 2007, departing Afghanistan in early June, having served three years of a ten-year sentence.