28 January, 2006

Documents Show Army Seized Wives as Tactic - Yahoo! News

Excuse me, but hasn't the administration always preached of taking hostages as being such a despicable act? Since when has taking a family hostage now deemed acceptable?
Documents Show Army Seized Wives as Tactic - Yahoo! News: "The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of 'leveraging' their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.
In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him 'to come get his wife.'"

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