Brent Bennett is a former U.S. Armyparatrooper who was convicted by an Afghan court on September 15, 2004 for participating in torture, kidnapping and running a private jail in Kabul. He and his associate Jonathan Idema were sentenced to 10-year prison terms. The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... An American Paratrooper using a T-10C series parachute Paratroopers are soldiers trained in parachuting and formed into an airborne force. ... September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years). ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Aspects of torture Incrimination of innocent people One well documented effect of torture is that with rare exceptions people will say or do anything to escape the situation, including untrue confessions and implication of others without genuine knowledge, who may well then be tortured in turn. ... Kabul (Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... Jonathan Keith Jack Idema, born c. ...
Bennett and his family maintain that he was working through official U.S. channels and was abandoned by U.S. officials after being arrested.
While in the U.S. Army, he spent time in units in Alaska and North Carolina. He never saw combat. After his discharge, he settled in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and worked in restaurant management. State nickname: The Last Frontier, The Land of the Midnight Sun Other U.S. States Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Governor Frank Murkowski Official languages English Area 1,717,854 km² (1st) - Land 1,481,347 km² - Water 236,507 km² (13. ... State nickname: Tar Heel State Other U.S. States Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Governor Michael Easley Official languages English Area 139,509 km² (28th) - Land 126,256 km² - Water 13,227 km² (9. ... The term discharge can have several meanings in different contexts: To discharge a weapon is to fire it. ... Fayetteville is a city located in Cumberland County, North Carolina. ...
Bennett, former U.S. soldier Jack Keith Idema, and Edward Caraballo were arrested in July 2004 and convicted of running a private prison in Kabul after Afghan security forces raided a house and discovered eight Afghan men who said they had been abused.
He said Bennett had been forcibly removed from his cell earlier in the week during a night of violence at the prison that included a fire being set in a cell block and gunfire from guards.
Bennett's mother, Debra Bennett, said she hadn't heard from her son directly and didn't know his plans, but that Tiffany had told her he had left Afghanistan.
Brent and Angela Bennett appeal a judgment in a court-tried case awarding Wanda Brown $17,825 in compensatory and $10,000 in punitive damages in her fraud action against the Bennetts.
She sued the Bennetts for their misrepresentation that the property did not have any "[s]ettling, flooding, drainage, grading, or soil problems." Thus, the relevant question is whether the flooding was patent, not whether the cause of the flooding was patent.
According to the Bennetts, it was reasonable for them to assume that the problem was the City's to fix, and to assume that because stopping the flooding was not one of the City's priorities, neither should it matter to them.
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