Tables turn on US conman waging his own weird war on terror

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By Anthony Loyd in Kabul
August 12, 2004


"I was very frightened," Siddiq recalls. "Following Jack there were about 20 American special forces tramping into my yard. I could see my brother and our guests standing with their hands against the wall. Their morning tea and furniture were thrown on the ground about them.

"I was blindfolded and pushed back into the yard. I could hear many other soldiers rush in and start throwing my books and possessions around as they searched. There were helicopters in the sky and many vehicles outside."

The raid, on June 24, was the third time that month NATO peacekeepers had accompanied Idema on one of his operations. According to a NATO official in Kabul, it took little more than a call on a mobile phone from Idema and the uniformed attire of his seven-man band, self-named the "Sabre Seven", to convince them to back his raids.


Coalition and NATO troops withdrew from the raid just before dusk as Siddiq and seven male family members were taken, hooded and bound, by the Sabre Seven to an improvised prison in one of the three houses that Idema was renting in Kabul.


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