Round two for Kabul's trial of year

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"We were in contact directly by fax and e-mail and phone with Rumsfeld's office" - Jonathan K Idema

Kabul's trial of the year is due to resume on Monday.
Former US soldier Jonathan K Idema and two other Americans, Edward Caraballo and Brent Bennett, are facing charges including hostage-taking, torture, illegally entering Afghanistan and running a private jail. snip

But the key question for this next stage is this: Will Mr Idema produce any evidence for the sensational claims he made at the first hearing three weeks ago?

He said then that he was in Afghanistan on a secret anti-terrorist mission approved at the highest levels of the Pentagon - claims the US military denies.

"We were in contact directly by fax and e-mail and phone with Donald Rumsfeld's office," Mr Idema said when journalists asked him to name names, "and with the deputy secretary of defence for intelligence."

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