January 28, 2006
Documents Show Army (Twice) Kidnapped Wives as Tactic
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."
~A Friday story! Twice now, only twice: a couple of bad apples?
If this story follows form, within weeks we'll learn that the Army was/is involved in many kidnappings of terrorist/insurgent-suspects' wives & children and that some general or Rumsfeld himself ordered or signed-off on this necessary terrorist-fighting tactic?
Update: The Highwater's at Unknown News reminded me that there are a number of news-stories going back two-and-a-half years reporting on the US military's taking of hostages. And although not mentioned in this recent AP story, taking hostages is a war crime, prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
Army Spc. Johnny Rodriguez keeps his eye on an Iraqi woman as other members of his squad searches a shed on her farm in Samarra, Iraq, on July 27, 2005. Coalition forces raided the farm after an informant tipped off authorities to the location of a weapons dealer and possible weapons cache.
[photo defenselink\ not AP]
~For America's post-feminist military women are an asset.
Posted by Cieciel at January 28, 2006 05:28 AM